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Might Quotes by Ian Mcewan
- The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.
- You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of…
- There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or…
- The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general…
- She bent her finger and then straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not moving and moving,…
- Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel…
- But how to do feelings? All very well to write "She felt sad", or describe what a sad person might do, but what of sadness…
- At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.
- It marked the beginning and, of course, an end. At that moment a chapter, no, a whole stage of my closed. Had I known, and…
- I turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for a something, version of myself, a heroine I…
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