Might Quotes - Page 37

• A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Witty, Math, Science

  Chartism ch. 2 (1839) See Disraeli 38

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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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• Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.

  Brian Eno

  Statistics, Lasts, Lists

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• If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of them, leave the rest in almost any geometrical pattern you might propose to me, and you might then say that that pattern was the thing prefigured beforehand, and that the other beans were mere irrelevance and packing material. Our dealings with Nature are just like this.

  William James

  Irrelevance, Numbers, Tables

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.438, Courier Corporation

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• You have to be single minded, drive only for one thing on which you have decided. And if it looks as if you might be getting there, all kinds of people, including some you thought were your loyal friends will suddenly show up... to trip you, blacken you, and break your spirit.

  John R Noe

  Determination, People, Looks

  John R. Noe (2006). “Peak Performance Principles for High Achievers”, p.90, Frederick Fell Publishers

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• On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it might be more interesting to actually terrify them by going completely mad and declaring myself to be a magician.

  Alan Moore

  Mad, Interesting, Midlife

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• I'm just trying to do the opposite of left, as long as there's the opposite of death, ya know
  Yes, ya test and I just might bring the opposite of life, til' there's no one the opposite of right

  Lupe Fiasco

  Opposites, Long, Trying

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• Economic theory has nothing to say as to what commodity will acquire the status of money. Historically, it happened to be gold. But if the physical makeup of our world would have been different or is to become different from what it is now, some other commodity would have become or might become money. The market will decide.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Makeup, Our World, Gold

  "Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe on the Impracticality of One-World Government and the Failure of Western-style Democracy". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 27, 2011.

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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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• The British could leave and half India wouldn't notice us leaving just as they didn't notice us arriving. All our reforms of administration might be reforms on the moon for all it has to do with them.

  J. G. Farrell

  Moon, Leaving, India

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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 believe that every Christian ought to be joined to some visible church; that is his
  plain duty, according to the Scriptures. God’s people are not dogs, else they might go
  about one by one; but they are sheep, and therefore they should be in flocks.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Dog, Believe

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• Let us see that our knowledge of Christ be not a powerless, barren, unpractical knowledge: O that, in its passage from our understanding to our lips, it might powerfully melt, sweeten, and ravish our hearts! Remember, brethren, a holy calling never saved any man, without a holy heart; if our tongues only be sanctified, our whole man must be damned. We must be judged by the same gospel, and stand at the same bar, and be sentenced to the same terms, and dealt with as severely as any other men.

  John Flavel

  Heart, Men, Understanding

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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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• I've always found it difficult to start with a definite idea, but if I start with a pond that's being drained because of a diesel fuel leak and a cow named Hortense and some blackbirds flying over and a woman in the distance waving, then I might get somewhere.

  Bobbie Ann Mason

  Distance, Ideas, Flying

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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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• Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.

  Luce Irigaray

  Becoming, Clinging, Has Beens

  Luce Irigaray (1985). “This Sex which is Not One”, p.214, Cornell University Press

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• Although we have no actual written communications from the world of emptiness, we have some hints or suggestions about what is going on in that world, and that is, you might say, enlightenment.  When you see plum blossoms or hear the sound of a small stone hitting bamboo, that is a letter from the world of emptiness.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Communication, Enlightenment, Sound

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• The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all — that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open — has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed?

  Federico Fellini

  Movie, Dream, Eye

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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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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