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Might Quotes by John Steinbeck
- Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
- Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected…
- I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great…
- But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the…
- [Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked…
- These too are of a burning color--not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might…
- Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what…
- Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.
- Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fences, and the…
- At one point, as Samuel urges Adam to raise his boys well regardless of the blood that might be in them, Adam tells him, "You…
- I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret…
- If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.
- The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That…
- This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this,…
- When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they will break and…
- Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.
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