Might Quotes - Page 16

• On paper we might be the best team in the league. We’ve got great players on this team who accomplished so much. We just couldn’t put it together.

  Amar'e Stoudemire

  Team, Player, League

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• That might be between BJP and Kejriwal. So far as Congress party is concerned, we are fighting this election to win.

  Ghulam Nabi Azad

  Party, Fighting, Winning

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• When I go to the cinema, I want to have a cinematic experience. Some people ignore the sound and you end up seeing something you might see on television and it doesn't explore the form. Sound is the other picture. When you show people a rough cut without the sound mix they are often really surprised. Sound creates a completely new world. With dialogue, people say a lot of things they don't mean. I like dialogue when it's used in a way when the body language says the complete opposite. But I love great dialogue I think expositional dialogue is quite crass and not like real life.

  Lynne Ramsay

  Real, Mean, Cutting

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2002.

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• The truth is that we are saved by grace only after all we ourselves can do. (See 2 Ne. 25:23.) There will be no government dole which can get us through the pearly gates. Nor will anybody go into the celestial kingdom who wants to go there on the works of someone else. Every man must go through on his own merits. We might just as well learn this here and now.

  Marion G. Romney

  Men, Grace, Want

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• Pursue your goals with all your heart, might, mind and strength. You are doomed to failure if you pursue them in a vacillating manner

  Robert D. Hales

  Heart, Goal, Mind

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• What we are speaks so loudly that our children might not hear what we say

  Quentin L. Cook

  Children, Speak, Our Children

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• There is an ancient Indian saying that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it. My people have come to trust memory over history. Memory, like fire, is radiant and immutable while history serves only those who seek to control it, those who douse the flame of memory in order to put out the dangerous fire of truth. Beware these men for they are dangerous themselves and unwise. Their false history is written in the blood of those who might remember and of those who seek the truth.

  Floyd Red Crow Westerman

  Life, Truth, Memories

  "Fictional character: Albert Hosteen". "The X-Files", (1993–2002, 2016–18), Season 3. The Blessing Way [3.01], September 22, 1995.

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• We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we'll be okay. So, when this kind of thing happens to other people, we need to put them in a different category from us. We don't want to resemble them, and the fact that we might is too terrifying to deal with. So, they have to be monsters.

  Gene Weingarten

  Believe, People, Monsters

  Gene Weingarten (2010). “The Fiddler in the Subway: The Story of the World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts. . . And Other Virtuoso Performances by America's Foremost Feature Writer”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• Steve Sailer gives us the real Barack Obama, who turns out to be very, very different - and much more interesting - than the bland healer/uniter image stitched together out of whole cloth this past six years by Obama's packager, David Axelrod. Making heavy use of Obama's own writings, which he admires for their literary artistry, Sailer gives the deepest insights I have yet seen into Obama's lifelong obsession with 'race and inheritance,' and rounds off his brilliant character portrait with speculations on how Obama's personality might play out in the Presidency.

  John Derbyshire

  Real, Character, Writing

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• If churches saw their mission in the same way, there is no telling what might happen. What if people were invited to come tell what they already know of God instead of to learn what they are supposed to believe? What if they were blessed for what they are doing in the world instead of chastened for not doing more at church? What if church felt more like a way station than a destination? What if the church’s job were to move people out the door instead of trying to keep them in, by convincing them that God needed them more in the world than in the church?

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Jobs, Believe, Moving

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2011). “Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith”, p.222, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• There are more stars than there are people. Billions, Alan had said, and millions of them might have planets just as good as ours. Ever since I can remember, I’ve felt too big. But now I felt small. Too small. Too small to count. Every star is massive, but there are so many of them. How could anyone care about one star when there were so many spare? And what if stars were small? What if all the stars were just pixels? And earth was less than a pixel? What does that make us? And what does that make me? Not even dust. I felt tiny. For the first time in my life I felt too small.

  Frank Cottrell Boyce

  Stars, Dust, People

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• Once the tires start to wear out the better car will prevail eventually. It might take a little bit of time, but eventually it will be the best. That’s why everyone is trying to make their car good on the long run.

  Joey Logano

  Running, Long, Car

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• A picture can express a universal humanism, or simply reveal a delicate and poignant truth by exposing a slice of life that might otherwise pass unnoticed.

  Steve McCurry

  Poignant, Unnoticed, Delicate

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• We suppose that could be considered a hedged position for the awards committee, one that would never occur in the hard sciences such as physics and chemistry, where a prize shared among three with divergent views would be an embarrassing mistake or a bad joke. While a Nobel Prize might well be the culmination of a life’s work, shouldn’t the work accurately describe the real world?

  Seth Klarman

  Real, Mistake, Awards

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• Occasionally we are asked whether it would make sense to modify our investment strategy to perform better in today's financial climate. Our answer, as you might guess, is: No! It would be easyfor us to capitulate to the runaway bull market in growth and technology stocks. And foolhardy. And irresponsible. And unconscionable. It is always easiest to run with the herd; at times, it can take a deep reservoir of courage and conviction to stand apart from it. Yet distancing yourself from the crowd is an essential component of long-term investment success.

  Seth Klarman

  Running, Technology, Investment Success

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• I was already headed for Hell, I might as well enjoy the ride.

  Abbi Glines

  Hell, Enjoy, Wells

  Abbi Glines (2013). “The Vincent Boys Extended and Uncut Collection: The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut; The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• We are not just scientists, but human beings as well. Like most people we’d like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climatic change. To do that we need to get some broad-based support, to capture the public’s imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have.

  Stephen Schneider

  Media, People, Imagination

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• I have become an orchid
  washed in on the salt white beach.
  Memory,
  what can I make of it now
  that might please you-
  this life, already wasted
  and still strewn with miracles?

  Mary Ruefle

  Beach, Memories, Orchids

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• You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake that might have saved your life a day later. We don’t get those choices. The story is what got you here, and embracing its truth is what makes the outcome bearable.

  Gail Caldwell

  Mistake, Choices, One Day

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• You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government process and made it simpler and easier to use for citizens.

  Jennifer Pahlka

  Thinking, Government, Confusing

  "With New Funding and Fellows, Code for America Looks to Scale Civic Innovation Across the Country" by Alexander Howard, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.

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• Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid. In mathematics, the truth is somewhere out there in a place no one knows, beyond all the beaten paths. And it’s not always at the top of the mountain. It might be in a crack on the smoothest cliff or somewhere deep in the valley.

  Yoko Ogawa

  Climbing, Mountain, Cracks

  Yoko Ogawa (2009). “The Housekeeper and the Professor: A Novel”, p.34, Picador

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• I think I have changed a lot. People might feel a little unfamiliar with the new me, but this is just who I am. I realised that I just want to be free.

  Taeyang

  Thinking, Who I Am, People

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• Every story is flawed, every story is subject to change. Even after it is set down to print, between covers of a book, a story is not immune to alteration. People can go on telling it in their own way, remembering it the way they want. And in each telling the ending may change, or even the beginning. Inevitably, in some cases it will be worse, and in others it just might be better. A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening.

  Michelle Richmond

  Book, People, Listening

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• So here are reasons why I talk to strangers: because I never know what might happen, because the world is full of surprises; because the very thing I am most worried about might turn into the thing I need most.

  Camille Dungy

  Needs, World, Reason Why

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• And what if there’s nothing in there?’ You die and there’s nothing beyond that. Nothing. Nothing remains. Someone might remember you for a little while after but not for long.

  Dmitry Glukhovsky

  Remember You, Remembers You, Long

  Dmitry Glukhovsky (2014). “METRO 2033: The cult bestseller behind the METRO LAST LIGHT and METRO 2033 video games”, p.165, Dmitry Glukhovskiy

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