Might Quotes - Page 42

As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.

Because if you take a risk, you just might find what you're looking for.

Learn - improve - grow - live. Learn as if you might live forever and you'll live as if you might die tomorrow.

If everything in the universe depends upon everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a full solution by investigating parts of the problem in isolation.

I call that man idle who might be better employed.

If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.

It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking.

If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

Thalia had been turned into a pine tree when she was 12. Me... well, i was doing my best not to follow her example. I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into if i were ever in the verge of death—plankton, maybe. Or a floating patch of kelp.

I never like to go out of character when filming starts. I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again.

And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world.

But if the world is watching, we might as well tell the truth. And the truth is, the church doesn't offer a cure. It doesn't offer a quick fix. The church offers death and resurrection. The church offers the messy, inconvenient, gut-wrenching, never-ending work of healing and reconciliation.

I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.

L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

Particularly as a writer, it is my job to ignore social critics, or the response that social critics might have when it comes to the opinions of my characters, the way they talk, or anything that can happen to them.

There's a cord sticking out of the back. Might you tell me where it goes?

We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.

It might not be true, but that doesn't mean it's nonsense.

Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.

I should kill myself. Things would be better if I did. For me anyway. I don’t know how it would affect global warming or penguins in Antarctica. But it might help me.

If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.

I steeled myself to focus only on the present yet remain alert to what might come next.

You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way.

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.