Might Quotes - Page 20

• Why should the railroad employees be parceled out among a score of different organizations? They are all employed in the same service. Their interests are mutual. They ought to be able to act together as one. But they divide according to craft and calling, and if you were to propose today to unite them that they might actually do something to advance their collective and individual interests as workers, you would be opposed by every grand officer of these organizations.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Organization, Together, Different

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• By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.

  John Milton

  Life, Nature, Strong

  'The Reason of Church Government' (1642) bk. 2, introduction

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• Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.

  William Cowper

  Men, Insanity, Mouths

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.23

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• There aint any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Writing, News, World

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• One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the rider is obliged to guide his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go.

  Sigmund Freud

  Horse, Powerful, Goal

  "New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. Lecture 31 : The Anatomy of the Mental Personality". 1932.

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• The third error leading to the assumption that there is nothing to be learned about love lies in the confusion between the initial experience of ‘falling’ in love, and the permanent state of being in love, or as we might better say, of ‘standing’ in love.

  Erich Fromm

  Falling In Love, Lying, Being In Love

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.4, A&C Black

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• I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Book, Writing

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.8, Beacon Press

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• Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Unhappy, Facts, Unhappiness

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.114, Beacon Press

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• The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die... His whole life is absorbed in avoiding death, which is inevitable, and therefore he might be thought to be the most irrational of men, if rationality has anything to do with understanding ends or comprehending the human situation as such.

  Allan Bloom

  Powerful, Passion, Men

  "The Closing of the American Mind: How higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students". Book by Allan Bloom, 1987.

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• Some of us who live in arid parts of the world think about water with a reverence others might find excessive.

  Joan Didion

  Thinking, Water, World

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.38, Zola Books

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• Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

  Jerzy Grotowski

  War, Groups, Elements

  Jerzy Grotowski (2012). “Towards a Poor Theatre”, p.259, Routledge

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• For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, arent we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?

  Fredric Jameson

  Military, Economic Globalization, Influence

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• You never know when an old calendar might come in handy! Sure, it's not 1985 right now, but who knows what tomorrow will bring?

  Homer

  Calendars, Tomorrow, Funniest Simpsons

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• Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

  Plutarch

  Wells, Breaths

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.27

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• Hell be lucky to last five or six years on those knees. What it might have to come down to is playing less on hard surfaces and playing more on forgiving surfaces.

  Jim Courier

  Years, Forgiving, Lucky

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• The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted... The suppressed study reveals that 80 percent of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees.

  Ronald Reagan

  Agency, Air, Tree

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• In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Night, Office, Political

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• A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.

  Nicholas Sparks

  New York, Typical, Agents

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• Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.

  William Carlos Williams

  Philosophy, Writing, Men

  William Carlos Williams, John C. Thirlwall (1957). “The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams”, p.219, New Directions Publishing

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• It doesn't look like Michelle Obama follows her own nutritionary dietary advice. And then we hear that she's out eating ribs at 1500 calories a serving with 141 grams of fat ... No, I'm trying to say that our first lady does not project the image of women that you might see on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue or of a woman Alex Rodriguez might date every six months or what have you.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Sports, Stupid, Issues

  "Does Rush Limbaugh's Criticism Of First Lady Cross The Line?". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 24, 2011.

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• Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be
  convicted and they ought to be sent up.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Drug Use, Law

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I may have found the cure for cancer, and I think it might be Thom Yorke Serum.

  Thom Yorke

  Cancer, Thinking, May

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• I'm horrified of leprechauns. I'm horrified that I might be leprechauns.

  Thom Yorke

  Leprechaun

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• My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art, Attention, Possibility

  Walter Hopps, Robert Rauschenberg, Susan Davidson, Trisha Brown (1997). “Robert Rauschenberg, a retrospective”, Guggenheim Museum Pubns

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• Well, the truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time–then you might not be as ambitious as you are.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Bird, Ambitious, Truth Is

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