Might Quotes

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

I have never been motivated by money in my life. You can't make choices based on what the financial return might be.

I had to know if I could make it somewhere else. I did not want to go through the rest of my life wondering what might have been without putting myself to the test.

There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.

You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.

I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time.

There's only one Mark McGwire. The man walked over 160 times. Just think. If he walks 60 times, he might hit 100 homers.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

My genre of music is very eclectic. I might play some Latin jazz, or just go into a spontaneous jazz thing. That's the thing about coming to one of my performances. Not every show is the same.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

I think that might have been an element in it, and people have asked me that very thing. Remember, Disney is the majority shareholder, but it is not an operating division of Disney.

If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.

I am suspicious of what people might want from me. Do they like me, or my money?

There was expectations that the fights there, the operation there might be extended for several months, even for several years. But within a few weeks it ended, because obviously the Taliban wasn't a real force.

I might be needy, competitive and desperate but it's far better than being wet.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

I might have to take the 12 steps to Workaholics Anonymous.

It might be a huge hit, it might not; but you learn something doing it.

I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants.

To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.

You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a print-based product, whether it's a newspaper or a magazine, you can certainly exist.

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.

I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.'

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.

There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.

Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.

What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.

Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap.

If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality.

And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered.

Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of elitism, mandarinism. Open form was like common ground on which all might graze their cattle - it was not to be closed in by usurping landlords.

The career isn't guaranteed for as long as you might want to play.

As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting.

I might seem biased, but I use Evernote every day. It came to me through my readers, who I'd asked for software recommendations via Twitter and Facebook. For seemingly every function, the answer was 'Man, you have to use Evernote.'

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

I haven't gone completely insane, but it might happen soon.

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

You can't afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is.

I know there's bands that might write something that sounds like The Smiths, and they'll go, 'Oh, it sounds like The Smiths, we've got to make it sound not like The Smiths.'

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

If you were a Colombian, you would have your version of an empanada. If you are an Argentinean, you might find a dough that's baked and has a butter sheen on it. And then in Ecuador, you'll find more crispy-fried empanadas. So, yeah, every culture has their own version of empanadas.

If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.

I do want to be a manager one day. It might be 10 years, I don't know when.

A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am.

I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

Celebrity has some amazing advantages, of course it does. You're given an extraordinary power. It's a door-opener. I might not have to queue for things.

I have been wearing black, which was a reaction to the Ginger thing. But now I have hopes and I can be anything. Tomorrow I might be naked with a feather boa, who knows?

You don't have to invent the wheel, but you might want to be the company that invents the rims.

The roof might fall in; anything could happen.

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world.

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.

I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is like stepping stones, and I've seen people I admire falter. We're all vulnerable.

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.

If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.

For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?