Might Quotes - Page 78

Yes, Harry, blessed as I am with extraordinary brainpower, I understood everything you told me. I think you might even consider the possibility that I understood more than you did.

I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.

One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil.

Everything you see, you might be seeing for the last time.

One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason.

A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.

Calisto, a companion of Ignatius, and who on recovering from a severe illness had heard of the imprisonment of Ignatius, hastened from Segnovia, where he was staying, and came to Alcala, that he, too, might be cast into prison.

Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.

At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.

People will say "You must miss playing to a thousand people." But I don't. I might miss playing. That's what I would miss, but I don't miss it, because I am playing.

Life is too short to dwell on what might have been.

There is a kind, I might almost say, of artistic satisfaction, when we are able to survey the enormous wealth of Nature as a regularly ordered whole a kosmos, an image of the logical thought of our own mind.

God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness.

To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might.

Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as were disagreeable, we might then excite at pleasure an ideal happiness, perhaps more poignant than actual sensation.

I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more - as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service.

Having a Facebook and Twitter profile allows me to keep more in touch with people, particularly young South Africans and those who are part of the online community. I was amazed that anyone might be interested in what I do and who I meet. Now I know what people will be interested in.

With luck, it might even snow for us.

Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more.

Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run.

But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.

But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute.

I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.

The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I hope it will not be brought up against me when my clock strikes.

No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion.