Might Quotes - Page 75

The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on, and that includes Colonel Cathcart. And don't you forget that, because the longer you remember it, the longer you might live.

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.

A vast space naturally raises in my thoughts the idea of an Almighty Being.

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.

Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.

An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.

Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.

She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.

Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you.

I never sweat, which you might notice in pictures.

What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid.

So to make movies, if you're first goal is to make money, well you can! Make a tent-pole movie that China wants. But that's not the kind of thing that's really going to get your remembered. You're not going to change anything with that. You might become rich from it!

If you're going to play a woman, you might as well play a woman that you liked, and someone sexy.

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.

Christ died that we might live. This is the opposite of abortion. Abortion kills that someone might live differently.

Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was

That shot might not have been as good as it might have been.

What I don't know is what the unexpected might be.

I am definitely interested in soundtracks that one might associate with fantasy or sci-fi - they tend to be rich with musical ideas.

I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.

Some said, "John, print it"; others said "Not so." Some said, "It might do good"; others said, "No."

When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative.

It never seems to occur to anyone that each reader is different, and that even those who might be said to resemble each other will each bring an individual set of experiences and references to their reading, and interpret and misinterpret it according to these.

Were we more careful to obey the part of the word of wisdom that deals with the "do's" it might be easier to obey the "don'ts"