Might Quotes - Page 9

Your natural inclination is to preach and to warn other travellers of snags in the path, but isn't it better to signal to them some of the joys by the way which they might otherwise miss?

Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace.

All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.

If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.

I might be an endangered species.

The horse is your mirror. He never flatters you. He reflects your temperament. He also reflects your ups and downs. Don’t ever be angry with your horse: you might as well be angry with your mirror.

Instead of trying to prove your opponent wrong, try to see in what sense he might be right.

I can do anything I want to do really, I might as well.

Don't let fear or frustration - or the fact that others around you seem to be all set - immobilize you. But do, from this day forward, open yourself up to possibilities you might never have considered. Step up. Step out of your comfort zone. Consider saying ‘yes’ even when ‘no’ feels much safer

I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.

We are all called to be saints, St. Paul says, and we might as well get over our bourgeois fear of the name. We might also get used to recognizing the fact that there is some of the saint in all of us.

Toward the end of his life, Gödel feared that he was being poisoned, and he starved himself to death. His theorem is one of the most extraordinary results in mathematics, or in any intellectual field in this century. If ever potential mental instability is detectable by genetic analysis, an embryo of someone with Kurt Gödel's gifts might be aborted.

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

I might not know where you are or what you are doing right now, but if you hear my voice will you come to me?

God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with respect to ourselves, we can say that the more enlightened and informed we are about God's works, the more we will be disposed to find them excellent and in complete conformity with what we might have desired.

You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.

Be careful what you say to someone today. Because tomorrow they might not be here, and you can't take it back.

Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.

If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!

If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish

We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs. To put our beliefs on hold is to cease to exist as ourselves for a moment -- and that is not easy ... but it is the only way to learn what it might feel like to be someone else and the only way to start the dialogue.

Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?

One more lesson like that and I might just do a Weasley.

You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything.