Quotes about might
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“Turning away, I stared at the long road winding off ahead of me.

I sighed. This trip might take awhile.
"Then start walking, Rose," I muttered to myself.

I set off, off to kill the man I loved.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

Love

“Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Heart

“Can I come back and see you sometime?"
"Long as you bring me some chocolate," Gramma said, and smiled. "I'm partial to chocolate."
"Gramma, you're diabetic."
"I'm old, girl. Gonna die of something. Might as well be chocolate.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: The Dead Girls' Dance

Smile, Girl

“Warlord, you once told me I'd always know what you're thinking. What are your thoughts now?"

"Partly, I'm thinking that I might shame myself in my trews, just from the feel of you next to me.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

Feeling, Thinking

“You remember our talk about purpose and meaning?" he asked me, the smile disappearing. "Well, I think this might be mine. I think this is what I was meant to do, Georgina.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Revealed

Smile, Thinking

“Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much. But you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.”

Tori Amos (1963) American singer

People, Fear

“And oh she had been broken. She hid it well, but Ross knew from personal experience that once you had put the pieces together, even though you might look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

Personality

“I’ve learned not to worry about what might come next.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Learning

“Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh book Gift from the Sea

Source: Gift from the Sea

Nostalgia

“If Aphrodite is angry, she might make you fall in love with a toy poodle, or a telephone pole.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

Love

“After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?”

Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day

Source: The Remains of the Day

“If privacy had a gravestone it might read: “Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.””

John Twelve Hawks book The Dark River

Source: Fourth Realm Trilogy (2005-2009), The Dark River (2007)

Reading

“For the first time, I saw what was in his heart, and I wondered if he might ever want to look deep enough to see mine.”

Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light

Source: A Northern Light

Time, Heart

“I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.”

Barbara Pym book Excellent Women

Source: Excellent Women

Love, Hope

“That might be nice, an extra pair of arms," Jace said. "Handy in a fight."
"Not if they're growing out of your…" Dorothea paused and smiled, not without malice. "Neck.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Smile, Fight

“The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a child with a spinal cord injury has had his moral sense blinded by religious metaphysics.”

Sam Harris Letter to a Christian Nation

Source: 2000s, Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), p. 32

Truth, Feeling, Sense

“To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.”

Pablo Casals (1876–1973) Catalan cellist and conductor

World, Personality

“He touched the rough crucifix that lay against his chest and whispered to the moving air, "Lord, that she might be safe, she and my children." Then turned his cheek to her reaching hand and touched her throught the veils of time.”

Diana Gabaldon book The Scottish Prisoner

Source: The Scottish Prisoner

Children, Time

“Besides, when not hard at work with this research, I'm actually conducting a side experiment on how cigarettes and gin increase charisma. As you might guess, the results are looking very promising.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

“But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.”

Roald Dahl book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Chance

“I can't promise we'll ever use you for a hasty getaway," Cole said, "but with a little work, you might be able to race my grandmother-while she's on her scooter.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Alice in Zombieland

“After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly?”

Kim Edwards book The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Feeling, Flying

“All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.”

Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy

World, Time

“Don't concentrate on the obvious. They might want you to miss something else.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Sorcerer in the North

“To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.”

Frank Herbert (1920–1986) American writer

God, Dreams, Sleep

“In my few short years I learned that seeing what's positive about a situation is a lot more fun and gets you a lot further than looking for what might be wrong with it.”

D.J. MacHale book The Lost City of Faar

Source: The Lost City of Faar

Learning

“Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness… Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through…”

Elizabeth Wurtzel (1967–2020) American author and journalist

Source: Radical Sanity: Commonsense Advice for Uncommon Women

Fight

“Is it fair your life burns so short and bright? Death had asked.

"No such thing as fair," Frank told himself. "If I'm going to burn, it might as well be bright.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Life, Death

“… That would be like stepping in front of a moving train and saying, 'Hey, honey, come stand next to me.'"
I hopped off the wall and stood next to him. "Anytime."
He just looked at me.
"I've never killed a train before. It might be fun to try.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Rises

Training

“I didn't think my day could get any worse until my best friend told me she might be going crazy. Again.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Thinking

“It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.

~ Sherlock Holmes”

Arthur Conan Doyle book A Study in Scarlet

Source: A Study in Scarlet

“And I flunked anger management the moment I put the counselor through a stone wall. You might want to keep that in mind.
[Thorn]”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Bad Moon Rising

Anger

“People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.”

Ken Kesey (1935–2001) novelist

People

“The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds of graffiti. As usual, someone had spelt Cthulhu wrongly.”

Simon R. Green (1955) British writer

Source: Something from the Nightside

“Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.”

Colin Powell (1937) Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general

Appearance

“Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames.”

Neal Shusterman book Everwild

Source: Everwild

“I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Beer, Thinking, Dead

“They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts that they flung to and fro, they had to be very, very handy to catch them, each time, without hurting them.”

Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera

Source: The Phantom of the Opera

Children, Time, Heart, Hurt

“Nothing made sense to me anymore. I knew I was young, I knew I was small. But I was worried that I might already be ruined.”

Augusten Burroughs book A Wolf at the Table

Source: A Wolf at the Table

Sense

“well i think its quite obvious that if you're going to rely on something to carry your wishes, you might as well know where exactly it has come from and where it intends on going”

Cecelia Ahern book If You Could See Me Now

Source: If You Could See Me Now

Thinking

“What were you going to do with it?” McCain asked.

"I just thought it might come in useful.”

"Were you planning to attack me?”

"No. But that’s a good idea.”

Anthony Horowitz book Crocodile Tears

Source: Crocodile Tears

Idea

“If you're going to lick the icing off somebody else's cake you won't be nourished and it won't do you any good, or you might find the cake had caraway seeds and you hate them.”

Emily Carr (1871–1945) Canadian painter and writer

Hate

“If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.”

Edward Gorey (1925–2000) American writer, artist, and illustrator

Source: Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

Drawing

“I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.”

Tom Stoppard The Real Thing

Henry, Act II, scene V
Source: The Real Thing (1982)

Children, World, Thinking, Dead

“And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.”

Anne Rice book Blackwood Farm

Source: Blackwood Farm (2002)
Context: "No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate," he said frankly. "And books, they offer one hope – that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

Books, Hope, Universe

“Jace was kissing her like he thought he might go to hell for doing it, but it would be worth it.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Hell, Kiss

“Just in case the world ends tomorrow," she said. "We might as well enjoy today.”

Susan Beth Pfeffer (1948) American writer

World

“Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will. Slavery was one of them and the people who best served that age were the ones who called it as it was — which was ungodly and inhuman. Ben Franklin called it what it was when he became president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society.”

Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2

PENN Address (2004)
Source: U2 By U2

Children, People, Age

“Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.”

William Wordsworth The World Is Too Much with Us

The World Is Too Much with Us, l. 9 (1806).

God, Sea

“Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our hearts, or make us angry enough to change the world.”

Grant Morrison (1960) writer

Source: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

World, Hope, Change, Reading

“Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear that he ever really did.”

Elizabeth Kolbert (1961) journalist and author

Source: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Imagination, Nature, Time

“I've learned that if you wait long enough, you might get a second chance at something you gave up on. And sometimes you'll be the one to give the second chance to someone else.”

Wendy Mass (1967) American children's writer

Source: 13 Gifts

Learning, Chance, Waiting

“She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Fate, World, Parting, Dependency

“Just between you and me and the lamppost, Dylan could easily begirl's perfect other half. If I didn't alreadya perfect other half, I might have been thrilled with the gift of my very own gorgeous mutant.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Fang

Perfection

“At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.”

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

“Keep your mind too open, and you never know what might walk in.”

Simon R. Green (1955) British writer

Source: Drinking Midnight Wine

“Some morning while your eating breakfast and you need something new to think about, though, you might want to ponder the fact that you see your kids across the table not as they are but as they once were, about three nanoseconds ago.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator

Source: Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Thinking

“I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

"The Little Hours" in Here Lies (1939)
Source: Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker

Beauty

“So Sophos thinks you're going to marry me."
"While I think you'll marry Sophos."
"I might. We'll see what he's like when he grows up.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Thief

Source: The Thief

Thinking

“you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for”

Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist

You May Be Right.
Song lyrics, Glass Houses (1980)
Context: Now think of all the years you tried to
Find someone to satisfy you.
I might be as crazy as you say.
If I'm crazy then it's true
That it's all because of you
And you wouldn't want me any other way.
You may be right
I may be crazy.
But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for.
It's too late to fight
It's too late to change me.
You may be wrong for all I know
But you may be right.