Might Quotes - Page 44

Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear.

I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.

Besides, whoever keeps the future in front of him and the past at his back is doing something else that's hard to imagine. For the image implies that events somehow already exist in the future, reach the present at a determined moment, and finally come to rest in the past. But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute. Therefore such a person has his face toward the void, whereas it is the past behind him that is visible, stored in the memory.

To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows

My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation. Through such pursuits, anyone can find something new to science, and if it's truly novel, the entire edifice of science might have to be restructured.

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are

I've wondered what my sexuality might be, but I've never wondered whether it was acceptable or not. Anyway, who really cares whether I'm gay or straight?

If we just create and don't think about what might happen, that's when we're going to get into trouble.

I live my life because I dare. I dare to show up when everyone else might hide their faces and hide their bodies in shame.

...it all, maybe, most likely, indeed, might turn out for the best.

After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear that he ever really did.

I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.

We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

If you have certain problems with your brain but are raised in a good home, you might turn out okay. If your brain is fine and your home is terrible, you might still turn out fine. But if you have mild brain damage and end up with a bad home life, you're tossing the dice for a very unlucky synergy.

While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

Life is very fragile and you never know when it is over. Only one instance and then it might be too late to accept Gods offer for forgiveness.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

I might have had too many friends in my twenties. I probably said yes too much, and then I had to learn how to say no. How to get away in order to work on stuff.

I've always been told my presence brightened up any room. One might think that went doubly for dank underground cell." (Jace)