Quotes about might
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“Because not wanting the prize the gods have arranged for you - that just might offend the hell right out of them.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

God, Hell

“Man, it was a good thing he fought like a nasty bastard or he might have been taken for a nancy.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

“Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?”

Richard Adams book The Plague Dogs

Source: The Plague Dogs (1977)

“You promised you would protect her Nico said.
He might as well have stabbed me with a rusty dagger. It would've hurt less than reminding me of my promise.”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

Hurt

“If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

Source: P.S. I Love You

“Death has more in common with Love than you might imagine.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Love, Death, Imagination

“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.”

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas

Time, Madness

“They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it is the other way around. Whatever. Someday you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't be like it used to 'cause that pain never really goes away.”

Brian K. Vaughan (1976) American screenwriter, comic book creator

Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No Future for You

Pain, Way, Forgiveness, Hurt

“Still I pictured having you for fifty, sixty more years. I thought I might be ready then to let you go. But it's you, and I realize now that I won't be anymore ready to lose you then than I am right now. Which is not at all.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“And stop pointing that beard at me, it might go off!”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

“Because being comfortable meant she might lower her guard, and she could not let that happen.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

“he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

“Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing.
If one could drown in the grass… it might be the best way to die.”

Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Way, Grass

“Romantics might like to think of themselves as being composed of stardust. Cynics might prefer to think of themselves as nuclear waste.”

Simon Singh book Big Bang

Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe, Fourth Estate, ISBN 0-00-716220-0

Thinking

“You might want to put some clothes on' suggested Jace 'I'm all for the bra and panties look, but you don't want the Silent Brothers to die of excitement”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Clothes

“They laugh at this, the idea that one might keep herds of friendly deer or elk that walk happily to their slaughter whenever it's time for the human to eat meat. Some ask openly if there aren't consequences of a life so easy to live.”

Joseph Boyden book The Orenda

Source: The Orenda

Life, Idea, Time

“Haven't you ever wished that you could steal back just a few hours of your past?" she asked softly. "That's all I want… just a little taste of what might have been.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Again the Magic

Past

“If you believe in your heart that you are right, then you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.”

Linda Ellerbee (1944) journalist

Way, Fish, Time, Heart

“Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it.”

Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

Life, Truth

“Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.”

Michael Crichton book Jurassic Park

Source: Jurassic Park

“You might wanna rethink that, boy. 'Cause if I'm going to get sued for offensively touching you, I'm going to make it worth my while.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

Boy

“You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

Boy, Thinking

“It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost….”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Life, Happiness, Search, Thinking

“Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“What are you looking at, foreigner?” the guard demanded roughly. The smile was a little unsettling. A prisoner shouldn’t smile at his captors like that.
“I’m just making sure I can remember you,” Gilan told him. “Never know when that might be useful.”

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

Source: Erak's Ransom

Smile

“He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something better.”

Charles Frazier book Cold Mountain

Source: Cold Mountain

World

“Leo frowned at the giant's spire. "Can't we blow it up or something?"
"Without me, you do not have the power," Hera said. "You might as well try to destroy a mountain."
"Done that once today," Jason said.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Mountain

“If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.”

Keith Richards (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones

Source: Keith Richards: In His Own Words

“Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

World, Dreams, Imagination

“A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Devil in Winter

Thinking, Silence, Indifference

“And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared.”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Source: On Beauty

People, World, Flowers, Appearance

“swore. “Barabas said you might say that. I’m supposed to tell you this.” Ascanio cleared his throat and produced a remarkably accurate impression of Barabas’s tenor. “Courage, Your Majesty.” “I will kill him.” “The Beast Lord or Barabas?” “Both.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

Courage

“Anyone who calls it "sexual intercourse" can't possibly be interested in actually doing it. You might as well announce you're ready for lunch by proclaiming, "I'd like to do some masticating and enzyme secreting.”

Allan Sherman (1924–1973) American comedian

Secret

“I'd rather be a 'could-be' if I cannot be an 'are' because a 'could-be' is a 'maybe' who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a 'has-been' than a 'might-have-been' by far; for a 'might-have-been' has never been, but a 'has' was once an 'are.”

Milton Berle (1908–2002) American comedian and actor

Star

“No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.”

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950) American writer

People, Literature, Reading

“God might work on mysterious ways, but hell worked on efficient ones.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Shadows

God, Way, Hell

“His voice is low and soft, a piece of silk you might keep in a drawer and pull out only on rare occasions, just to feel it between your fingers.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

Feeling

“Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Life, Fear, Dreams, Hope

“True love means that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Love, Pain, Happiness, Personality

“For awhile I taped soap operas and watched them at night when I thought I might be forgetting what it was like to be human. After a while I stopped, because from the examples I saw on those shows, forgetting humanity was a good thing.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead Until Dark

Source: Dead Until Dark

Night, Forgetting

“And I was even beginning to think home might be with you.”

Ben Sherwood (1964) American author, journalist, and entrepreneur

Home, Thinking

“You have a responsibility to your future self, who is someone you might not even know, might not even understand yet. Because until you die, that future self has as much of a life as you do. […] Your life is not disposable.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

Life, Understanding, Future

“She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being.”

Charles Frazier book Cold Mountain

Source: Cold Mountain

Life, Age, Literature, Reading

“Many men spend their lives living in the wrong corner of their souls, mainly out of fear of what they might find on the other side.”

Sally Gardner (1954) British children's writer and illustrator

Men, Fear, Soul

“I steeled myself to focus only on the present yet remain alert to what might come next.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

“I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.”

Anne Rice (1941) American writer

Light, Sun

“I supposed if you were going to make a career of breaking laws, you might as well know them.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Law

“The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Problem, Indecision

“Just do something. You might make a mistake, then you can fix it. But if you do nothing, you can't fix anything. And your life might turn out full of regrets.”

Jenny Colgan (1972) British writer

Source: The Little Shop of Happy Ever After

Life

“Sexuality is not meant to be this way - an honest, consensual expression in which a girl might take an active role when she feels good and ready and not one minute before. No. Sexual desire is meant to sell soap. And cars. And beer. And religion.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Source: Beauty Queens

Religion, Cars, Way, Feeling

“You should approach each book -- you should approach life -- with the real possibility that you might get a metaphorical boner at any point.”

Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Life, Books

“Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

“He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

Heart

“Oh yeah. It would be terrible for you to have only one working fang. Your friends might want to call you Lefty”

Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer

Source: How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire

“You've turned into quite a bossy little thing," Myrnin said. "I think I might like it.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Bite Club

Thinking

“I don't want to live the rest of my life thinking about you and dreaming of what might have been. Stay with me, Allie.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Life, Dreams, Thinking

“Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

“time past and time future
what might have been and what has been
point to one end, which is always present.”

T.S. Eliot book Four Quartets

Source: Four Quartets

Time, Past, Future

“Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.”

David Baldacci book Absolute Power

Source: Absolute Power

Chance

“So I'm an ace?' Will grinned. 'I'm flattered Halt, flattered. I had no idea you regarded me so highly.'
Halt gave him a long-suffering look. 'I might have been more accurate to say a joker.'
Whatever you say.”

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

Source: The Kings of Clonmel

Idea, Suffering

“One of them had a large wooden sign nailed to its door proclaiming, NO SYMPATHY! I wondered what non-arcane visitors might think of the warning.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

Thinking

“What you do to children matters. And they might never forget.”

Toni Morrison book God Help the Child

Source: God Help the Child

Children, Forgetting

“Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.”

Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

Family

“If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

“People surprise you, Frank, with just how fuckin stupid they are. I mean, do you actually realize how much adult conversation is spent on this fuckin business? Facts treated like they were opinions just for the simple purpose of talking about it longer? Some people might think that's interesting, bub, but I'll tell you. It's romanticizing a goddamn rock by calling it a mountain range to me. People waste a helluva lot of time they could be putting to useful purposes. This is a game. See it and forget about it.”

Richard Ford The Sportswriter

Source: The Sportswriter (1986), p. 104

People, Stupidity, Mountain, Game

“I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.”

Elizabeth Berg (1948) American novelist

Source: Talk Before Sleep

“Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.”

Stephen King book The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

Source: The Drawing of the Three

Lovers, Drink

“There's no going back. So we might as well get on with things.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear to be stupid as well. I think that's something you might have to consider.”

Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Children, Stupidity, Intelligence, Thinking

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”

Kazuo Ishiguro (1954) Japanese-born British author

On growing up in England, having left Japan at age 5. Conversation with , The Writer http://www.writermag.com/, volume 114, number 5, May 2001, collected in Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro, p. 189 https://books.google.com/books?id=lvuteIrz7JUC&pg=PA189&dq=%22there+was+another+life+that+i+might+have+had,+but+I%E2%80%99m+having+this+one%22 <br class="br">Interviews <br class="br">Context: I have a sense of having just left without saying goodbye, and of this whole other world just kind of fading away. … I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Life