Might Quotes - Page 22

• It was the same with the whole Russian machine. Fear was the impulse. For them it was always safer to advance than retreat. Advance against the enemy and the bullet might miss you. Retreat, evade, betray and the bullet would never miss.

  Ian Fleming

  Missing, Enemy, Bullets

  Ian Fleming (1961). “gilt-edged bonds”

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• From the Battle of Trenton to the Argonne, Marines have won foremost honors in war, and in the long eras of tranquility at home, generation after generation of Marines have grown gray in war in both hemispheres and in every corner of the seven seas, that our country and its citizens might enjoy peace and security.

  John A. Lejeune

  Country, War, Home

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• What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, doesn't mean it's great music. It might not reflect the soul of a people, which is really my criteria for great music.

  Mickey Hart

  Mean, Player, People

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• In The Bob Hope Golf Classic (LWT) the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at one stage at the disposal of a man who might have either pressed it by mistake or else pressed it deliberately in order to obtain room service.

  Clive James

  Mistake, Golf, Men

  Clive James (2017). “Clive James On Television”, p.503, Pan Macmillan

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• You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.

  Frank Herbert

  Pain, Animal, Legs

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.16, Penguin

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• If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.

  Bill Laswell

  Moving, Long, Listening

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• You might say that I was the first and caused others to awaken to the sense of their duty in helping deserving causes for the benefit of the race.

  Madam C. J. Walker

  Race, Benefits, Firsts

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• Quests always have their ups and downs,' rumbled the giant. 'The point is never to give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way to the bottom.

  Nancy Farmer

  Giving Up, Fall, Giants

  Nancy Farmer (2015). “The Sea of Trolls”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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• I give it as my fixed opinion, that but for our graduated cadets, the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would have lasted some four or five years, with, in its first half, more defeats than victories falling to our share; whereas, in less than two campaigns, we conquered a great country and a peace without the loss of a single battle or skirmish.

  Winfield Scott

  Country, War, Fall

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• Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse; and that the pastor's sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which 'did a fellow good-- kept him in touch with Higher Things.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Past, Church, Elements

  Sinclair Lewis (2013). “Babbitt”, p.298, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Good Lord, I don't know what 'rights' a man has! And I don't know the solution of boredom. If I did, I'd be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull, as ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Fun, Nice, Believe

  Sinclair Lewis (2015). “Babbitt”, p.62, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.

  Jackie Stewart

  People, Champion, Said

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• I’m not for profiling people on the color of their skin or on their religion. But I would take into account where they've been traveling and perhaps you might indirectly have to take into account whether or not they've been going to radical political speeches by religious leaders. It wouldn't be that they are Islamic. But if someone is attending speeches from someone who is promoting the violent overthrow of our government, that’s really an offense that we should be going after. They should be deported or put in prison.

  Rand Paul

  Religious, Islamic, Government

  "Does Rand Paul Really Want to Imprison People for Attending Speeches?". "The Sean Hannity Show", reason.com. June 2, 2011.

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• The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla.

  J. D. Salinger

  House, Valhalla, Manhattan

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• Big data will never give you big ideas... Big data doesn't facilitate big leaps of the imagination. It will never conjure up a PC revolution or any kind of paradigm shift. And while it might tell you what to aim for, it can't tell you how to get there

  Margaret Heffernan

  Data, Ideas, Giving

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• I might lose because I wasn't tall enough; I might lose because I wasn't fast enough. But I wasn't going to lose because I wasn't ready.

  Bill Bradley

  Track, Enough, Ready

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• Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things.

  Philip James Bailey

  Love, Thinking, Intensity

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.250

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• The motive is this, 'Oh! that God could be glorified, that Jesus might see the reward of his sufferings! Oh! that sinners might be saved, so that God might have new tongues to praise him, new hearts to love him! Oh! that sin were put an end to, that the holiness, righteousness, mercy, and power of God might be magnifi ed!' This is the way to pray; when thy prayers seek God's glory, it is God's glory to answer thy prayers.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

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• God has many ways that He might use to achieve His ends, but His wisdom determined the best way to accomplish them.

  Samuel Willard

  Christian, Might Use, Way

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• The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though the world might last a hundred years.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Children, Years

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• He (Jesus) became what we are that He might make us what He is.

  Athanasius of Alexandria

  Christian, Jesus, Christian Inspirational

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• If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Versions, Ifs

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• Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgment might well have concluded that we were finished.

  Anthony Storr

  Depression, Men, Odds

  Anthony Storr (1990). “Churchill's Black Dog, Kafka's Mice, and Other Phenomena of the Human Mind”

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• Recently, I wrote that feminism was 'finding a way of being a girl that doesn't hurt' a way for girls and women to re-negotiate our understanding of the world so that we can become a full and equal part of it rather than just a means of decorating it; to move towards a place where the mere act of being a girl isn't used against us as both a threat and an obligation. Through feminism, I have found a peace of sorts from the sense that my femaleness required a constant apology so that I might be given permission to pass through these narrow corridors.

  Clementine Ford

  Girl, Hurt, Women

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• Superficially, it might be said that the function of the kidneys is to make urine; but in a more considered view one can say that the kidneys make the stuff of philosophy itself.

  Homer Smith

  Philosophy, Science, Views

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