Might Quotes - Page 84

Hundreds of these companies I've seen since the beginning stages - including Dropbox and Airbnb - one of them has actually been crushed by an incumbent. The Googles, the Twitters, the Facebooks, they might be someone to acquire you, which is not necessarily a bad position to be in.

They were never scared of the kids who might die, or the empty spaces they would leave behind. They were afraid of us-the ones who lived.

Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.

Listen, the idea that I might be a fashion soothsayer is very flattering but completely inaccurate.

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.

You have to change things in order to get to where you want to go. And things might get worse. But if you're not getting where you want to be, already, in a sense, it's as bad as it can get.

You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God.

Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.

Wealth unused might as well not exist.

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

For all the things I'm losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.

I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me

The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.

It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'

You never work for somebody else. Someone else might sign your check, but you're the one who fills in the amount.

I don't like meeting bands that I like, because in the slight case that they might not be cool, it kind of ruins it for me.

You might catch me dozing off, but only for a minute. For a second.

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest.

Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won.

For any species to change, if they are unable and are unwilling to do so - I might, for example, have suggested to the dinosaurs that heavy armor and great size was a sinking ship, and that they do well to convert to mammal facilities - it would not lie in my power or desire to reconvert a reluctant dinosaur.

Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might?

No one is fit to encounter an adversary's case successfully unless he can make it for a moment his own, unless he can put it more forcibly than the adversary could put it for himself, and take account not only of what the adversary says, but also the best he MIGHT say, if only he had chanced to think it.

The first time I ever found Paste I thought somebody just might have finally made a magazine using only the contents of my brain. I read it cover to cover every single month.

Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or the rest, Like myself, however small, Like myself, or not at all.