Might Quotes - Page 56

Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!

Resisting the powers that be, we are keeping things from getting worse than they otherwise might be. And that effort is very much worthwhile.

A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words.

When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity.

If you lend your skills to other systems that you don't really believe in, then you might as well never have lived. You haven't expressed yourself.

The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.

Everyone has as much right as he has might.

The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

I thought being faithful was about becoming someone other than who I was...it wasn't until I failed that I began to wonder if my human wholeness might be more useful to God than my exhausting goodness.

Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.

We settled Mama into the wheelchair and loaded her down with both our pocketbooks and a vase of flowers I had picked to present to our host in hopes of softening the effects of any opinions Mama might vent during the evening.

Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath...It's all a gift.

It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.

While public opinion might sway back and forth, right and wrong do not.

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of your mouth, it's not appealing

Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here, but it sounds better in French.

It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.

The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

The main object of the work was to present such a survey of the advances already made in physical knowledge, and of the mode in which they have been made, as might serve as a real and firm basis for our speculations concerning the progress of human knowledge, and the processes by which sciences are formed.

The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.

In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.