We Might Quotes

#1. If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing.

Terry Eagleton

#2. In our day the spirit of giving gifts plays a large role in commemorating the Christmas season. I wonder if we might profit by asking ourselves, What gifts would the Lord have me give to Him or to others at this precious season of the year?

Thomas S. Monson

#3. The crimes of others are a secret language among us. Through them we show ourselves what we might be capable of, after all.

Margaret Atwood

#4. The apostle Paul said, "Everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope" (Rom. 15:4).

Rick Warren

#5. I believe if we let go of Assad now, we might as well forget the whole region.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#6. I know you're just a rag doll now, sewn together with memories that we might have had. I know you're just the dream inside of a dream And don't worry, I know I don't know you, anymore.

Pleasefindthis

#7. It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.

Alain De Botton

#8. I wrote a call to the contemporary Muslim conscience, saying to the ordinary people that we might not like the video or the cartoons, but that violence certainly isn't the right answer. I don't think laws are going to solve the problem.

Tariq Ramadan

#9. The truth is, we never know what life will bring us and we don't have as much control as we might think we have. But we CAN choose how we walk through life and how we spend our time.

Elizabeth Berrien

#10. When we feel the poetic thrill, is it not that we find sweep in the concise and depth in the clear, as we might find all the lights of the sea in the water of a jewel? And what is a philosophic thought but such an epitome?

George Santayana

#11. When your practice has led you to experiences that you can't understand, you need a better theory. Otherwise, if you try to understand these transcendent experiences with 'profane' or, we might say, 'materialistic' ways of thinking, your cultivation will be set back.

Betty Sue Flowers

#12. We might say that we perceive the things themselves, that we are the world that thinks itself
or that the world is at the heart of our flesh.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#13. We need images and myths through which we can see who we are and what we might become.

Christine Downing

#14. In short, if there were external bodies, it is impossible we should ever come to know it; and if there were not, we might have the very same reasons to think there were that we have now.

George Berkeley

#15. Things are so convenient for us these days, our perceptions are probably that much duller. Even if its the same moon hanging in the sky, we may be looking at something quite different. Four hundred years ago, we might have had richer spirits that were closer to nature.

Haruki Murakami

#16. Neither of us moves for a moment, locked instead in each other's eyes and in the branches of this Hill we might never finish climbing.

Ally Condie

#17. Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.

L. Lionel Kendrick

#18. What's wrong?" "It's hard. It's too fucking hard. I don't know if this is going to work. We might as well cut our throats. Just cut our own throats." "You mustn't talk like that." "Yeah. Right.

Neil Gaiman

#19. I never realized, you know, how much we rely on appearances," he said. "It's not that we're so smart, it's just that we don't look like we did it. We might as well be a bunch of Sunday-school teachers as far as everyone else is concerned. But these guys won't be taken in by that.

Donna Tartt

#20. Since we must eat to live, we might as well do it with both grace and gusto.

M.F.K. Fisher

#21. I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.

Vidal Sassoon

#22. You are afraid of us. You are afraid because you don't know what we might do.

Pat Murphy

#23. The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

Joseph Roux

#24. Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumstances so that we might look up to Him and see His deliverance.

Jerry Bridges

#25. Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you ever thought we might like you because you're different?

Tamora Pierce

#26. Why do I get the feeling, interjected Cheops, that shit and fan are moving into conjunction, and that we might be in the way?

Neal Asher

#27. They tried to believe in their classmates. They must have believed that if we could all get together, then we might end up being saved. We should commend them for that. We couldn't do that.

Koushun Takami

#28. The study a posteriori of the distribution of consciousness shows it to be exactly such as we might expect in an organ added for the sake of steering a nervous system grown too complex to regulate itself.

William James

#29. We might impress people with our strengths, but we connect with people through our weaknesses.

Craig Groeschel

#30. The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness.

Daniel Gilbert

#31. Instead of asking, "Why is there war?" we might ask, "Why is there peace?" We can obsess not just over what we have been doing wrong but also over what we have been doing right. Because we have been doing something right, and it would be good to know what, exactly, it is.

Steven Pinker

#32. Who plans on falling in love? It simply happens. We cannot stop it, however much we might try.

Meg Cabot

#33. We might even purposely create time for boredom on a summer day, so they have to go to the garage and see what interesting fun they can have with a pulley, some rope, and a roll of duct tape.

Daniel J. Siegel

#34. -Elle, we might not know much about each other, and I might not be there, and you might not be here, but I'm glad I share this sky with you.
-Maybe we should start looking up together, ah'blena

Ashley Poston

#35. I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a pair of scissors and cutting it up.

Cornelia Funke

#36. We might have been on the outside looking in at our own families and our own lives, but at least we could stand outside together.

Jay Crownover

#37. Sometimes I think we keep secrets for the wrong reasons. If we could instead find that right person to talk to we might find that talking about an embarrassing story or admitting our frailty might lead to a more authentic relationship with others or ourselves.

Frank Warren

#38. Until we can ban all of them [firearms], then we might as well ban none.

Howard Metzenbaum

#39. 4 For whatever was thus written in former days was written for our instruction, that by [our steadfast and patient] endurance and the encouragement [drawn] from the Scriptures we might hold fast to and cherish hope.

Anonymous

#40. The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.

Alain De Botton

#41. She knew: shit, we might as well have been drinking a dog's tears. Nothing mattered except that we were alive.

Denis Johnson

#42. In taking our human nature upon Himself, [Jesus] showed us what we might become, what God intended us to be.

Billy Graham

#43. Our Heavenly Father created the universe that we might reach our potential as His sons and daughters.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#44. Some of us are always in the borderlands no matter where we might be on the map.

James Carlos Blake

#45. We need heroes, however outlandish, because although we might not be slaying real dragons, we all have our quests.

Russ Thorne

#46. We cannot wait for the world to turn, for times to change that we might change with them, for the revolution to come and carry us around in its new course. We are the future. We are the revolution.

Beatrice Bruteau

#47. You've moved on, V. So have I. We're different people than we were back then, but with a little bit of effort, we might manage to be friends again."

~ Sam Fitzpatrick

Mackenzie Crowne

#48. But remember that reading provides nourishment for hungers we might not even be aware of. How often have I chosen a book at random and found in it an answer I didn't realize I was seeking.

Beth Ann Fennelly

#49. Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.

P.D. James

#50. Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

Joyce Meyer

#51. None of us are ever far from death. Try as we might to convince ourselves otherwise, our vulnerability is profound and intrinsic, our time on this Earth borrowed, fleeting.

Greg F. Gifune

#52. We need to live in the now of life, it can't be about how much we suffered yesterday or what we might face tomorrow. It's about today. And today was good"

Willow in To Dance With Dolphins

Bonnie Leon

#53. Innocence invites protection, yet we might be smarter to protect ourselves against it ...

Megan Johns

#54. There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of discomfort or pain is an important part of meditation practice, because it is one of the very first things that we open to as our practice develops.

Jack Kornfield

#55. ...if we somehow find the courage to go directly into the discomfort - even the discomfort of illness, pain, old age, and death - we might discover something unexpected there.

Roland Merullo

#56. If we hadn't hated him a lot, we might have liked him a little at that moment. But we did. So we didn't.

Ally Carter

#57. The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.

Albert Barnes

#58. The truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done. It was a pretty convincing

Barack Obama

#59. Beauty inspires love; so it is said, in Terre d'Ange. Was it done that we might find this world worthy of loving?

Jacqueline Carey

#60. There is the liability of accepting prematurely an artificial horizon for our own character and personality, of losing the horizon of the possible person we might be. It is the danger of considering our character as something static, rather than as something emerging.

Halford Luccock

#61. I'm very supportive of women getting to a place in life when it's right for them to start a family. It's important for women to take their time to come into their own. I only want to say we might not have as much time as we think we have.

Constance Marie

#62. We have time, but we might lack priorities.

Ben Tolosa

#63. We really become one - we might wear different clothes or have different sexual preferences or lifestyles than the person next to us, but really those are just details. The person inside is looking for the same thing as their neighbor - freedom, expression, acceptance, love.

Jewel

#64. And yet, if we were to inject truth serum into the communion wine in our churches, I think we might find that many of us dread life in the kingdom of God, not because we find it terrifying but because we find it boring.

Russell D. Moore

#65. Understanding that yes, we are committing more resources than we thought we might be in protecting our homeland and prosecuting a war and so it's understandable that we would be going through a period of deficits.

Donald Evans

#66. The subject of the chapter is not what we might expect from the title.

James Clavell

#67. Ah," said Dumbledore gently, "yes. Yes, I thought we might hit that little snag.

J.K. Rowling

#68. We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth.

John Lyly

#69. Occasionally, as children, we might figure out how to call somebody a name, and they would figure out how to call us. But it wasn't - it was so light. It was so fluffy. I didn't really have a strong awareness of segregation and the separation of races until I left Lorain, Ohio.

Toni Morrison

#70. There must be a place where hopes and dreams are nurtured, and that place is only within ourselves. A place to clean the grime of life, a place that waits for us to stay and look inside that we might see the truth.

Cliff Robertson

#71. If I'm feeling like rock, we'll do some of that, and if I'm feeling some other way, we might do some of that. So, that's typically how I record and write and play music and anything else.

Chris Stapleton

#72. I see beauty in the future of the Internet, but I'm worried that we might not see that. I'm worried that we are running into problems because of online crime. Online crime is the one thing that might take these things away from us.

Mikko Hypponen

#73. In my opinion, the teaching, rearing, and training of children requires more intelligence, intuitive understanding, humility, strength, wisdom, spirituality, perseverance, and hard work than any other challenge we might have in life.

James E. Faust

#74. Christ took our hell so that we might take His heaven.

Donald Barnhouse

#75. When someone watches us eating, we feel exposed. We might also harbor a suspicion that the person staring wants to steal food from our plate. The taboo, in any case, is long-standing.

Bee Wilson

#76. Oh that's right
Keep away from me Please give me a push
Don't let me understand you Don't realise me
Or we might tumble together
Depersonalized
Identical
Into the terrific Nirvana
Me you --- you --- me

Mina Loy

#77. What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

Charles Dudley Warner

#78. To indicate how large a part of the Earth is covered by the oceans, we might call attention to the fact that a whole hemisphere, with its center near New Zealand, would have only one-tenth of its area as dry land! And the average depth of the seas is over two miles.

Paul J. H. Schoemaker

#79. How grateful we should be that a wise Creator fashioned an earth and placed us here, with a veil of forgetfulness of our previous existence so that we might experience a time of testing, an opportunity to prove ourselves in order to qualify for all that God has prepared for us to receive.

Thomas S. Monson

#80. Americans today are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism in the twentieth century. One advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so.

Timothy Snyder

#81. So, in God's relationship to us, we might wonder, "Am I really saved?" "Am I of the elect?" "Is God angry with me?" "Why does God allow suffering in the world?" In each case, if we leave out the Cross, questions like these can drive us to despair or insanity.

Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#82. But while all fear is not laziness, much fear is exactly that. Much of our fear is fear of a change in the status quo, a fear that we might lose what we have if we venture forth from where we are now. In the section on discipline I spoke of the fact

M. Scott Peck

#83. It is inconceivable that our mind does not change according to where we might be, and how we perceived in it.

Tsan-Kuo Chang

#84. Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them, at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

#85. We might all get killed this afternoon, for all I know. That's the wild for you - it's got its dangers, which is part of the beauty.

Larry McMurtry

#86. This is one of the most important moments in your life. Nothing will ever be the same. We might get rich. We might get killed. We might just have an adventure or lean something. But we have been changed. We are standing close the Heraclitean fire, feeling its heat on our faces.

Neal Stephenson

#87. I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

Alice Walker

#88. Try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong. While you see it your way, there's a chance that we might fall apart before too long. We can work it out. W e can work it out.

John Lennon

#89. Do you think, Madame, that in heaven we will really get to see God face-to-face?" "We might." "What if you're blind?" "I'd expect that if God wants us to see something, we'll see it.

Anthony Doerr

#90. Food and shelter are very nice, but without stories to hear and tell, we might as well be the walking dead.

Leah Hager Cohen

#91. If we know where we are and something about how we got there, we might see where we are trending - and if the outcomes which lie naturally in our course are unacceptable, to make timely change.

Abraham Lincoln

#92. There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things to wear, and we might collaborate on making a little piece. They're really lovely, and I think they've been quite inspired by me in turn.

Bat For Lashes

#93. If we change our thoughts from 'it's too late' to, 'there's still hope', we might see some change in the world.

Kellie Elmore

#94. There was not a lot of dialogue. The titles were just to keep you up. It's the visual stimulation that hits the audience. That's the reason for film. Otherwise, we might as well turn the light out and call it radio.

Robert Altman

#95. But mostly we're fairly light-hearted because we have to be. People die here, and if we ever stopped and thought carefully about what we do, then we might not do it at all. If

Jodi Taylor

#96. Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed.

Edward Bond

#97. But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.

Jeff Lindsay

#98. First of all, I'm not narcissistic." When she opened her lips to argue, he said, "I know Narkissos of Thespiae
while we might share traits, I came first, so he's Lothairistic, not the other way around.

Kresley Cole

#99. Despite our best efforts to clean it of its peculiarities, sex will never be either simple or nice in the ways we might like it to be.

Alain De Botton

#100. We might have reason to be driven! We live for a short stretch of time in a world we share with others. Virtually everything we do is dependent on others, from the arts and culture to farmers who grow the food we eat.

Amartya Sen