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Might Quotes by Anne Lamott
- You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come…
- My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and…
- My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me…
- The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry…
- And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there…
- If you don't believe in God, it may help to remember this great line of Geneen Roth's: that awareness is learning to keep yourself company.…
- Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily.
- In a library, you can find small miracles and truth, and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard that you will…
- Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, "I hate you, God." That is a prayer too, because…
- I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any…
More Might Quotes
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. — Francis of Assisi
- People are smarter than you might think. — John Astin
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story… — Chinua Achebe
- Never pray for justice, because you might get some. — Margaret Atwood
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine