Might Quotes · Page 86

The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the…

— Peter Abelard

Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol.

— Diana Wynne Jones

I whispered, 'I am too young,' and then, 'I am old enough'; wherefore I threw a penny to find out if I…

— William Butler Yeats

I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a…

— Oliver Reed

One might say that "Torch Song" is, in part, about the urgency of the effort to pin things down and what wild…

— Laura Mullen

I loved you and you destroyed me. You took my heart and ripped it up. You might as well have staked me.

— Richelle Mead

There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have.

— James S. Coleman

If you're going to learn about entrances from anyone, you might learn from the Undertaker.

— Finn Balor

You check into the hotel and see you're booked for seven nights. But you know you might be leaving in a day…

— Ernie Els

I think that because I'm overweight, [my] fantasy was lightness. So I project my fantasy to the clothes, and now all I…

— Alber Elbaz

Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons,…

— John Milton

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty:…

— Ruth Ann Minner

Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens.…

— Barack Obama

If I make a bogey or three putt I'm on fire inside. But it's not like you're going to play any better…

— Lydia Ko

There might be two or three songs I'm trying out. I've been singing these songs (on the new album) in the studio,…

— Kristin Chenoweth

I might do a film someday for the collection. I love designing sets and creating environments, in film school and for my…

— Pamela Love

You can walk as carefully as you want through a mine field; it is still a mine field. But it's also true…

— Dave Sim

If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would…

— Thomas Aquinas

I think girls are especially worried about being judged, and when you're in high school, everything seems like a bigger deal than…

— AnnaSophia Robb

Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now…

— Osamu Dazai

Home economics should find its way into the curriculum of every school because the scientific study of a problem pertaining to food,…

— Martha Van Rensselaer

Marc’s hand tightened visibly around Kevin’s fingers, his digits going white. Again. Both men clenched their jaws, Kevin in pain, and Marc…

— Rachel Vincent

When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive.…

— Carl Sagan

If you're funny as a woman, people think it might be because someone else helped you.

— Alice Lowe

Complaining is like vomiting. You might feel better after you get it out, but you make everybody around you sick.

— Paul Molitor

If you're a painter, paint. But you don't have to put Jesus in every picture. Paint well, and if you paint well…

— Isaac Slade

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

— Elvis Presley

Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.

— R. C. Sproul

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is…

— Anonymous

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.

— Christopher Reeve

There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might.

— Mary Tyler Moore

As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, stranger in a strange land, and walk miles without finding a place…

— Mary Church Terrell

You might be a redneck if your wife wants to stop at the gas station to see if they've got the new…

— Jeff Foxworthy

I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.

— Imran Khan

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on…

— Ethel Waters

You might be a redneck if your biggest ambition in life is to git that big ole coon. The one what hangs…

— Jeff Foxworthy

I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.

— Adam Lambert

What's been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.

— Jerry Garcia

In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its…

— John Thorn