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Might Quotes - Page 6

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.

Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.449, Broadway Books

Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.

Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

I would I had a thousand lives that I might give them to ... China!

Lottie Moon, Keith Harper (2002). “Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings”, p.132, Mercer University Press

Yes, I am white now,' said Gandalf. 'Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should have been.

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.484, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?

Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore.

Letter to Shelley, August 1820, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 323; echoing Edmund Spenser 'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 2, canto 7, st. 28, l. 5: 'And with rich metal loaded every rift'