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Might Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
- We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.…
- This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed,…
- Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become…
- I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or…
- ...because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't stop himself from…
- She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.
- Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. The…
- It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.
- [S]o if the device of the person in the ambulance detected the device of the person he loved the most, or the person who loved…
- Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
- I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
- Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor…
- It might sound naive to suggest that whether you order a chicken patty or a veggie burger is a profoundly important decision. Then again, it…
- My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision.…
- Again and again we are confronted with the reality - some might say the problem - of sharing our space with other living things, be…
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