Might Quotes · Page 673

Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers,…

— David Mitchell

If we were making a record in Kentucky, there might be some more elements that recall a time, a place, or a…

— Will Oldham

President [John F.] Kennedy, after the Bay of Pigs, said to Turner Catledge of The New York Times: I wish you had…

— Mark Shields

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

— Susan B. Anthony

The soul must be distinct from intellect because even at its best, what the soul does when it's thinking, is it thinks…

— Peter Adamson

I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our…

— Jessica Simpson

[When I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan] that was the first time in which I looked out at a crowd of…

— Barack Obama

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I go to a lot of plays. I tend to prefer the off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway more than the Broadway shows. That's where…

— Ellen Chenoweth

It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

When I think about what makes Canada great, fresh water is right at the top of the list. We have over two…

— Rick Mercer

In the old days it would have been a relatively simple matter to have checked Hitler's territorial ambitions. All you'd have needed…

— Niall Ferguson

If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of…

— Lincoln Kirstein

The universe has its secrets. Extra dimensions of space might be one of them. If so, the universe has been hiding those…

— Lisa Randall

We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and…

— Isaac Asimov

I was not a hard-liner against nuclear, because I viewed that as perhaps the only way we might keep the lights on…

— James Howard Kunstler

I know within my organization, within the grassroots of my organization of the Tea Party movement generally, there's going to be a…

— Niger Innis

Gratitude lifts our eyes off the things we lack so we might see the blessings we possess.

— Max Lucado

So have your wits about you, and do what you can and dig in, because it might not last.

— Ethel Kennedy

No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he…

— Samuel Johnson

He thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon.

— Jess Walter

[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.

— Truman Capote

I love the hamster but I think if I took him on tour he might die.

— Lauren Mayberry

For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might…

— Cornel West

Nowadays, the media have to be there to keep you from asking too many questions, from getting together with other people who…

— Henry Rollins