"Might" Quotes . Top 29 Short Quotes About "Might"

"Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else."

--- A. J. Hartley

#Might #World #Good And Bad

"I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better."

--- A. J. Jacobs

#Mean #Placebo #Might

"In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece."

--- A. J. Liebling

#Stimulus #Might #Ears

"Our hypothetical rich client might even have ordered a Pommard, because it was listed at a higher price...He would have never learned [about other wines]. A man who is rich in his adolescence is almost doomed to be a dilettante at table. This is not because all millionaires are stupid but because they are not impelled to experiment."

--- A. J. Liebling

#Adolescence #Stupid #Might

"News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows whither or for how long. Newspapers might employ these periods searching for the breeding grounds of news, but they prefer to fill up with stories about Kurdled Kurds or Calvin Coolidge, until the banks close or a Hitler marches, when they are as surprised as their readers."

--- A. J. Liebling

#Newspapers #Might #Long

"American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself."

--- A. J. P. Taylor

#Might #Happened #Statesmen

"Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have."

--- A. J. P. Taylor

#Chess #Might #Asks

"I would never wound a cat's feelings, no matter how downright aggressive I might be to humans."

--- A. L. Rowse

#Might #Feelings #Humans

"One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone."

--- A. L. Rowse

#Might #Stones #Architecture

"I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life."

--- A. N. Wilson

#Might #People #Incapable

"In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all."

--- A. N. Wilson

#Green #Might #Features

"I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death."

--- A. N. Wilson

#Thinking #Deceiving #Might

"Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again. Well, they've not idea what money's for- Ten to one they'll start another war. I've heard a lot of silly things, but, Lor'! Fancy giving money to the Government!"

--- A. P. Herbert

#Heard #Money #Might

"Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain."

--- A. P. Herbert

#Might #Giving Money #Wells

"There is no reason why a joke should not be appreciated more than once. Imagine how little good music there would be if, for example, a conductor refused to play Beethoven's Fifth Symphony on the ground that his audience might have heard it before."

--- A. P. Herbert

#Reason #Heard #Might

"With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes along, though freedom remains total with each step: any tempting side road can be turned into an impulse, or any wild patch of woods can be explored. The pattern of the walk is to come true, is to be recognized, discovered."

--- A. R. Ammons

#Patterns #Might #Steps

"Don't you find it rather heavy, to have everything really in front of you – all the people who are going to matter, whom you haven't met yet, all the choices you are going to have to make, everything you might achieve, and all the possible failures – unreal now? The future flaps round my head like a cloud of midges."

--- A. S. Byatt

#Mets #Might #People

"Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off."

--- A. S. Byatt

#Might #Stones #Wells

"Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it."

--- A.C. Grayling

#Effects #Reason #Zealot

"Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by small but dangerous increments, to cease to be as liberal as they once were. They begin to restrict their own hard-won rights and freedoms as a protection against the crminial minority who attempt (and as we thus see, by forcing liberty to commit suidcide, succed in doing) to terrorise society."

--- A.C. Grayling

#Might #Commit #Stills

"You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone."

--- A.L. Kennedy

#Might #Shapes #Bed

"We just watch anything speed by. To stop and really ponder what a product label says, or the tagline on a TV commercial, might be inherently silly. Those are things that are almost designed to be thrown away."

--- Aaron Belz

#Might #Pondering #Products

"When the guy says go, you start to suffer - or you might as well not be out there. It's a small piece of your life, make it hurt."

--- Aaron Cox

#Might #Wells #Small Pieces

"My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I wake up so late that it would be inappropriate to have breakfast. At most, I will have a snack in the day and dinner. I realize that it's not the healthiest way to live, but it's all I really have time for."

--- Aaron Levie

#Realizing #Late #Might

"For me, writing music is a good way to say what's on my mind. It's less vulnerable in a way, less embarrassing, less exposing to the idea of seeing someone's reaction. The thing about it, though, is you need to be ready... especially if you've got something you're burning to say... even if it's just what some people might think is just a small moment that nobody'd ever bother with or notice."

--- Aaron Lines

#Thinking #Might #People

"I would be lying if I didn't admit there might be a scene in the movie where there might be alcohol in my system."

--- Aaron Paul

#Scene #Might #Alcohol

"That's the wonder of the internet. It's the power of numbers: get enough people to retweet something, someone might see it."

--- Aaron Paul

#People #Might #Retweet

"A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated."

--- Aaron Sorkin

#Might #Stories #Organization

"There might be some of them that don't care. To me, it's important that my fans know how much I appreciate them."

--- Aaron Watson

#Appreciate #Might #Care

29 "Might" Quotes