Might Quotes - Page 39

• You might be a cunning linguist, but I am a master debater.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Funny, Masters, Cunning

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• Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Waiting, Bully, Promise

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• She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply say I amwithout adding a this, or a that, without saying I am Indian, Guyanese, English, or anything else in the world.

  Sharon Maas

  Country, Independence, World

  Sharon Maas (2014). “Of Marriageable Age”, p.395, Bookouture

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• You're 18 points down [in the polls]... You might as well do what's right.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Interesting, Polls, Wells

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• We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.

  Andrew Coyle Bradley

  Healthy, Suffering, Selfishness

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• Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude: it can only say, "This model"- or theory, or interpretation of the data- "fits more of the facts known at this date than any rival model." We can never know if the model will fit the facts that might come to light in the next millennium or even in the next week.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Faith, Light, Next Week

  Robert Anton Wilson (2002). “Tsog: The Thing That Ate the Constitution”

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• Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.

  Alan Bennett

  Littles, Statistics, Standards

  "Forty Years On" by Alan Bennett, Act 2, (p. 80), 1972.

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• Years ago a statistician might have claimed that statistics deals with the processing of data. . . to-days statistician will be more likely to say that statistics is concerned with decision making in the face of uncertainty.

  Herman Chernoff

  Years, Data, Decision

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• Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.

  Hal Clement

  Believe, Statistics, Entertaining

  "The Nitrogen Fix".

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• Perhaps people who are gushing over the Obama Cult today might do well to stop and think about what it would mean for their granddaughters to live under Sharia law.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, Thinking, Law

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• The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Government, Views, United States

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.143, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Ah, believer, it is only Heaven that is above all winds, storms, and tempests; God did not cast man out of Paradise that he might find another paradise in this world.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Wind, Heaven

  Thomas Brooks (1859). “Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks”, p.3

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• I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable … Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Pain, Lying, Grief

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2011). “We Shall See God: Charles Spurgeon's Classic Devotional Thoughts on Heaven”, p.298, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them anyway!

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Thinking, Stories, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Ideas, Way, Lost

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.29, Macmillan

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• An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.

  Amy Hempel

  Ideas, Stories, Sparks

  "A Long Time Coming". Interview with Rob Hart, chuckpalahniuk.net. August 27, 2008.

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• But who knows what good might come from the least of us? From the bones of old horses is made the most beautiful Prussian Blue.

  Joy Williams

  Beautiful, Horse, Blue

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• I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Writing, Attention, May

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• I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Past, Hitting

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• From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.

  Victor Francis Hess

  Years, Fields, Facts

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• To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound  like a burden, but in practice few things in life afford quite as much satisfaction.

  Michael Pollan

  Practice, Things In Life, Sound

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according to the same principles as nature, but they apply them to individual entities, while nature, to use a Goethean expression, thinks nothing of individual things. She is always building and destroying, because she wants to achieve perfection, not in the individual thing, but in the whole.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Real, Artist, Thinking

  Rudolf Steiner, Michael Howard (1998). “Art as Spiritual Activity: Rudolf Steiner's Contribution to the Visual Arts”, p.130, SteinerBooks

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• A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to behave in a manner uncongenial and destructive towards themselves as well as others.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  People, Neurosis, States

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• The time has come to recognize that the U.S. will continue to exercise unprecedented power in a world where international rules are still unreliable and where security and advancing of the free democratic order still depend significantly on the possession and use of military might.

  Stephen Harper

  Military, Exercise, Order

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• I don't know that we do. I had thought ours worked well, but I had never examined it too closely. A lot of media people will be looking for a case that might make Texas Governor George Bush think twice about what he's doing.

  George Ryan

  Thinking, Texas, Media

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