Might Quotes - Page 50

If someone stands in front of one of my paintings and says, 'This is just a mess', the word 'just' is not so good, but 'mess' might be right. Why not a mess? If it makes you say, 'Wow, I've never seen anything like that', that's beautiful.

It's harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.

To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It's - I think they might use too much oil in their hummus - but it's the wrong question.

But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.

It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.

Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?

Of beer, an enthusiast has said that it could never be bad, but that some brands might be better than others.

When you're dreaming, you don't know it's a dream. You might even interpret a dream in your dream - and then wake up and realize it was all a dream. Perhaps a great awakening will reveal this to be a dream as well.

The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.

I still got dreams like anybody else, an ever so often, I am thinkin about how things might of been.

Luckily ... there were Zulus and Afghans, also the Dervishes in the Soudan. Some of these might, if they were well-disposed, 'put up a show' some day.

I am often disgusted at hearing young people I know, declare that they are afraid of doing this or that, because they MIGHT be killed.

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty !

All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

Psychoanalysis showed me that I might be neurotic because I was a girl but, as Chekhov might have put it, I alone had to squeeze the slave out of myself, drop by drop.

Tattoo on the lower back? Might as well be a bullseye.

I found that if you have a goal, that you might not reach it. But if you don't have one, then you are never disappointed. And I gotta tell ya it feels phenomenal.

From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.

If I suddenly disappear from the music world, you might see Hikaru Utada working as a helper at some inn in Atami.

The right wing will be identified with the monied class, even when the left often has more money. And the left wing will be identified as the whiners, even though the right at times whines as much or more. You might say that both sides are monied, high human capital whiners, on the whole.

That great philosopher anonymous once said, never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.

Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.

Surfers are the canaries down the mine. Those of us who surf spend more time than anyone soaking in whatever the sea has become. We're suspended in consequences, you might say.

In aesthetic theory it might be extremely difficult, if not quite impracticable, to draw a line between the canon of classicism, or regard for the archaic, and the canon of beauty.

Bugs are not going to inherit the earth. They own it now. So we might as well make peace with the landlord.