Might Quotes - Page 62

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.

The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite of its ministers.

In other words, let's face it: Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek out a kind of fairness. Of course, that might take time and effort. And maybe it won't seem to be worth all that. It's up to each individual to decide whether or not it is.

You might heckle me now - but when I get home, I've got a chicken in the oven.

There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor, that's your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you're never a specialist. Your field is entirely open; your field is the entire human condition.

He who has money, lives long: he who has authority, can do no wrong: he who has might, establishes right. Such is history! Ecce historia!

O God, I love you to the edge of madness, Venetia, but I'm not mad yet--not so mad that I don't know how disastrous it might be to you--to us both! You don't realize what an advantage I should be taking of your innocence!

Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse

Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.

I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value.

Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other "higher" ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.

I’ve always found that the better the book I’m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter.

Immerse yourself in the Word of God and what He has to say and get your eyes and your emotions, as hard as that might be, get them off the situation and turn to Him.

Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two... Or three but that had never stopped me from loving you.

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.

Whats the matter?" Jayfeather muttered " Afraid i might give you some medicine?

All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.

It's amazing where a joke might come from. I find a lot of humour just by metaphorically turning things upside down or literally like my wife's cat.