Might Quotes - Page 79

What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

The costs can't be borne by smaller counties particularly, so if the crime occurs in a large county you might be charged with the death penalty, in a smaller county you're not. That raises some significant questions about fairness.

The higher your profile becomes, the more aware you are that people out there might hate you.

But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group.

I believe that he knew more what he was doing. I might be absolutely wrong about this, but that was my impression.

I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.

But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

The phrase surgical strike might be more acceptable if it were common practice to perform surgery with high explosives.

He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do.

It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction.

It's okay if you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more than I've ever wanted anything in my life. But that's what I want and I could see why it might not be what you want. So I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It's okay if you have to leave us. It's okay if you want to stop fighting.

Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.

Well, I think it can be quite helpful to be working on a character who actually existed, historically. Of course, you might have material to study and help you create the character.

By the way, the Harry Potter series is literature, in spite of what some people might say. The way J.K. Rowling worked that world out is quite something.

I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.

Sometimes you just can't be afraid to wear a different hat. If Columbus had complied, this whole world might still be flat.

Well, since paradoxes are at hand, let us see how it might be demonstrated that in a finite continuous extension it is not impossible for infinitely many voids to be found.

The gates of heaven surely are closed to those who decline to oppose totalitarianism with all their might.

Slaves who are underfed, diseased, resentful, despairing, and filled with hate will never yield that maximum of output which they might achieve under normal conditions.

A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary us of our very lives.

Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in theworld unavoidable, the eternity of the process (or, expressed in temporal terms, the eternal repetition of the process) nevertheless makes it possible not only that we might remain in Paradise permanently, but that we may in fact be there permanently, no matter whether we know it here or not.

I might just write a novel next. I don't know!

The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might.

Another occupation might have been better.