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Might Quotes by George Eliot
- When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might…
- Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines…
- Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls…
- It is never too late to be what you might have been.
- We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
- But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric…
- And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are…
- Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
- And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she…
- People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
- Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
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