Top 100 You Might Quotes
#1. Sonya, as a scientist, it's never just about the logistics of life. One must always be optimistic, or else you'll never discover or learn anything new. Though of course, you might also find that such a mentality should never be restricted to such an occupation as mine.
Lauren Lola
#2. You might be a redneck if your wheelbarrow breaks and it takes four relatives to figure out how to fix it.
Jeff Foxworthy
#3. And then you might decide that the country can just spend maybe years or decades to regain that credit, or maybe give that county the support, the financial support that the market is not willing not do.
Rodrigo Rato
#4. You might be a redneck if you own at least 20 baseball hats.
Jeff Foxworthy
#5. If your mother doesn't remove the Marlboro from her lips before telling the State Trooper to kiss her ass, you might be a redneck.
Jeff Foxworthy
#7. Be careful not to blame yourself if someone rejects Christ. If you do, you might be tempted to take credit when someone accepts him.
Craig Groeschel
#8. The art of diplomacy is often to tell someone you want to be their best friend, but failing that, you might have to destroy them. It's kind of like Christianity. Congressman Lance Boyd.
Jayden Hunter
#9. If you accept that you can die at any time - then you might not be as ambitious as you are
Mitch Albom
#10. As for advice - write as much as you can! Time's ticking, and if you don't throw everything you have into your stories today, you might find yourself on the wrong side of THE END tomorrow!
Darren Shan
#11. Don't fight the waves. Dive under, bob up, or catch the curl and ride the wave. The ocean is stronger than you; you might as well be a matchstick in comparison. But if you yield to the waves, they carry you, their power becomes you. ~ Elizabeth Cunningham
Kytka Hilmar-Jezek
#12. It's a pity you are so poor & plain. And a shame you have such intelligence & spirit, Miss Middleton. You might otherwise make a man an acceptable spouse.
M.R.C. Kasasian
#13. Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level.
Tim Gunn
#14. What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.
Asia Argento
#15. America is not so much a country as it is an idea, and that must be why so many people are drawn to it, the idea of it, the idea that you might be free of your past, free of the traditions that kept you in your own traditions - that is the idea of it: freedom from your very own self.
Jamaica Kincaid
#16. That was the lure of wealth, he'd discovered: a throaty whisper in your ear that you were special, that it was all - this wine, this woman, this world - for you. That it in some way existed only so that you might partake of it.
Marcus Sakey
#17. Believe me, you don't walk away from the kind of money you make with a daily television show. You might get awful tired of it sometimes, but take a second look at the check and you get less tired right away.
Johnny Carson
#18. It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
Lord Byron
#19. You can't plan in advance for everything - every mood swing, every mistake you might make in execution, every shift in your circumstances. But you can keep updating your plan ...
Eric Maisel
#20. Welcome to finishing school, Gemma. Learn to embroider, serve tea, curtsy. Oh, and by the way, you might be demolished in the night by a hideous winged creature from the roof.
Libba Bray
#21. Take control of the time you have with your kids as one day they will be all grown up and have their own friends and things to do. Cherish every moment you have with them now as you might not see them as they get older. It becomes their schedule not yours!
Kevin McCarty
#22. Sometimes I use words to throw you from once scene to the other, and sometimes I use words to pull you from one scene to the other. You might not be aware of it, but I may have overlapping words one way or the other. So, I'm actually using words.
Fred Schepisi
#23. When you read a book, you don't give up on it. You might soon feel like your part of the story.
Kiersten White
#24. But everything falls away, try as you might to stop it. And for whatever returns to you, be grateful.
Rachel Cusk
#25. You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That's why the dark is always close by.
Lemony Snicket
#26. My feeling is, if you're going to be called a celebrity, you might as well use it for some good. It's better to testify for school lunches in front of Congress than get drunk in a bar somewhere and misbehave.
Tom Colicchio
#27. Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesdays.
G.K. Chesterton
#28. You might be a legend one day if you just keep your head to the ground and never get overzealous and start thinking you've outdone yourself. That's the space I try to stay in.
Bryce Wilson
#29. If your time is worth anything, travel by air. If not, you might just as well walk.
Will Rogers
#30. A lot of people have been telling me how brave I am. I've always thought it was a mistake to get a reputation for courage, on the grounds that if you acted bravely once, people would expect you to act courageously again, and you might be having an off day.
Starhawk
#31. All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that'd make the world, in a small way, a better place. Like shooting someone.
Terry Pratchett
#32. You might catch me dozing off, but only for a minute. For a second.
Young Chop
#33. I'm confident in my own ability. If that wasn't the case you might as well pack it in now. If you think too much, you start doubting yourself, doubting your quality, so you have to train yourself in a certain way.
Michael Owen
#34. Well, I think I learned a valuable lesson. Always take down your Christmas decorations after new years or you might get filleted by a hooker from God.
Dean Winchester
#35. You might be addicted to Mah Jongg if... you're allowed only one carry-on and you choose your Mah Jongg bag!
Mary Anne Puleio
#36. I run because it's so symbolic of life. You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles. You might feel that you can't. But then you find your inner strength, and realize you're capable of so much more than you thought.
Arthur Blank
#37. Jeff didn't believe in work-life balance," says Kim Rachmeler. "He believed in work-life harmony. I guess the idea is you might be able to do everything all at once.
Brad Stone
#38. Always keep an open mind and to listen to what those around you have to say about you. You might actually learn something that may help you become a better person!
Auliq Ice
#39. Why would she want to come back here and live?' I wondered. 'Doesn't seem like she'd want to.'
'Why do you say that?'
'She seems different, that's all.'
'I don't know,' Bud said. 'You might be confusing different with dissatisfied.
Tawni O'Dell
#40. However you might feel, you are walking your own path through the darkness. Do not despair when all the light leaves you, and remember your past - it will see you through the trials ahead.
Robert J. Crane
#41. You might not be a lion, Tess. That's fine. Neither am I. But we're still cats, aren't we? Just because we don't roar, doesn't mean we have to be silent.
Annabel Pitcher
#42. George, if you ever break the spine of one of my books, I want you to know that you might as well be breaking my own spine.
Anne Fadiman
#43. It's true that you might be socially isolated because you're reading in the library, at home and so on, but you're intensely alive. In fact you're much more alive than these folk walking the streets of New York in crowds, with no intellectual interrogation and questioning going at all.
Cornel West
#44. You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.
John Romero
#45. They can't make any of these talented young actors Fletch. You might as well make a movie called Chevy Chase.
Chevy Chase
#46. You might find it alarming to think that your doctor will not actually need to see you in person but might make a diagnosis based on the position of the stars, the colour and smell of your urine, and the taste of your blood.
Ian Mortimer
#47. Now I am a diviner, though not a very good one, but I have enough religion for my own use, as you might say of a bad writer - his writing is good enough for him; and
Plato
#48. A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
Thomas Carlyle
#49. If you don't use an image now you might have a place to put it in further down the line - and I have a lot of unfinished drawings.
Raymond Pettibon
#50. If you play it safe, middle of the road with all the right notes, you might win. If you are unique and have too much personality, you might easily score a '0' in competition.
Charlie Albright
#51. You just can't wait to get out of your head, can you?"
"if you were in here you might want that too.
Maggie Stiefvater
#52. When you're a professional you do your job no matter what gets in the way. You might take a sick day, you might take a personal day, but then you show back up or you won't get paid. Everyone develops his/her own strategy for dealing with days that are not productive.
Charlaine Harris
#53. My goal is to be the most magical person you know. I say that all the time, because it's an idea that really does shape my daily life. But you might not have met me, or maybe you aren't familiar with me at all. Still, I know that you have a person who has given you that feeling.
Stephen Lovegrove
#54. A friend's loyalty lasts longer than their memory. Over the course of a long friendship, you might fight with your friend, even get angry with them. But a true friend will forget that anger after a while, because their loyalty to their friend outweighs the memory of the disagreement.
Matthew Reilly
#55. By thinking through the grilling process while still in the kitchen, you can easily gather all of the items that you might need and conveniently carry them to the outdoors area.
Barton Seaver
#56. Out of all of the trillions of years of the Earth's history, you might be alive for one 70 or 80 year period. That ain't so long. You should be out ready to burn this motherfucker to the groun' while you can. But they somehow get you all scared and hung up on these stupid ideas.
L.T. Vargus
#57. I say, if you can't laugh you might as well laugh anyway.
Stephen King
#58. Then you remember that Jack
that's his name, the mac & cheese
plays lacrosse. That's probably where he got all those yummy muscles. You need two hands for lacrosse.
A pinky? Damn, you might as well starve yourself.
Alaya Dawn Johnson
#59. You might get one job for having a famous parent, but you won't get your second unless you're good.
Linus Roache
#60. My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
Mandy Patinkin
#61. Stay with me. I think you might be the love of my life.
Sarah Black
#62. I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.
John Irving
#63. At the end of the day, if it looks like you're not going to get paid, you might be willing to compromise to make sure that budget actually comes out. It's not all about your extreme point of view.
Kurt Schrader
#64. Erisha said to Elton, "I have a scheme you might like to be in on.
Elisa Denk
#65. It might seem that being a genius is a golden ticket to a life of glamorous soirees with the intellectual elite, champagne flute in hand, arm candy at your side, surrounded by a throng of smiling sycophants. But you might be confusing this scene with the lifestyle of a diplomat
Andre De Guillaume
#66. Think about winning the day ... if you are worried about the mountain in the distance, you might trip over the molehill right in front of you.
Drew Brees
#67. As you step into your limitless self, you might be confronted with old habits and patterns that are not necessarily based in truth. These old ways of being show up because you have repeated many of them thousands of times.
Debbie Ford
#68. You might get an inspired thought or idea to help you move towards what you want faster.
Rhonda Byrne
#69. The truth of life is that Brahman is no different from atman, the spiritual force within us, what you might call the soul.
Yann Martel
#70. Guns are always the best method for a private suicide. They are more stylish looking than single-edged razor blades and natural gas has got so expensive. Drugs are too chancy. You might miscalculate the dosage and just have a good time.
P. J. O'Rourke
#71. The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.
Charles Krauthammer
#72. Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin.
L.M. Montgomery
#73. If life's taught me anything, it's that you might as well eat your dessert first, 'cos the ceiling might fall in before you're even done with the salad.
Jordan Castillo Price
#74. If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.
Scott Caan
#75. So when someone new came into this world of preordained power structures, someone who looked like they might understand a certain kind of emptiness, you might notice her.
Kate Scelsa
#76. If you go to a higher place of power, you can gain power there and you might even encounter some beings of knowledge and light that might aid you in some way.
Frederick Lenz
#77. So what if you're right? So what if you're wrong?
In the end you might be surprised to find that God doesn't care so much about whether you were right or wrong but whether, despite it all, you were kind or cruel.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#78. Sometimes the hardest part of growing it is not the responsabilities you might get, but it is to lose the essence of love , and never find the way back to where it was.
Branscom Judah
#79. I want you to know that, despite what you might read at times in the newspapers or see on the television news, we have actually been getting a lot of things done the last several months, the U.S.-Canada relationship.
Paul Cellucci
#80. When the guy says go, you start to suffer - or you might as well not be out there. It's a small piece of your life, make it hurt.
Aaron Cox
#81. Football is not played with strong arms and fast feet, it's played with heart. Grow your heart and your arms and feet will follow ... You play long enough and you might find yourself in a place where your arms and feet fail you ... That's when you find out what's in your heart.
Charles Martin
#82. If the ties that bind ever do come loose
If forever ever ends for you
If that ring gets a little too tight
You might as well read me my last rights.
The Band Perry
#83. If you wanted to design a robot that could learn as well as it possibly could, you might end up with something that looked a lot like a 3-year-old.
Alison Gopnik
#84. I'm always looking for a reason to say no when I'm approached about a big studio tentpole because your fear is will you be consumed into the anonymous machine, and it will suck out any specificity and point of view that you might hope to express.
Matt Reeves
#85. Because we both knew that sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.
Brock Clarke
#86. I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain. I could almost taste metal and salt in the skin, and I thought, How good you are. You might have killed us with happiness, but You let us be with You in pain.
Graham Greene
#87. I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, 'Oh, you might want to read 'In Cold Blood' because they're talking about you for Capote, but the script's with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment.' So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain.
Toby Jones
#88. We all have a path to take; sometimes it's hidden under the weeds, so you might have to work a little.
Michael Dolan
#89. Everybody's forgiven you but you. And you are so far behind us." "You might be surprised about that.
Lev Grossman
#90. There are heroes, and there are the rest of us. There comes a time when you just let go the ghost of the better person you might have been.
John Burnham Schwartz
#91. If a song is a living, breathing entity, you might think of the tempo as its gait - the rate at which it walks by - or its pulse - the rate at which the heart of the song is beating.
Daniel J. Levitin
#92. My point is, there are a lot of people in the world. No one ever sees everything the same way you do; it just doesn't happen. So when you find one person who gets a couple of things, especially if they're important ones ... you might as well hold on to them. You know?
Sarah Dessen
#93. I often find human behavior amusing. Like having a full refrigerator of food to eat yet buying fast food instead. If you learn to conquer the two big "N" words. Niceties vs Necessities. You might actually have some funds for the hard times that come.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#94. The career isn't guaranteed for as long as you might want to play.
Nick Ferguson
#95. 'Beyond Glory' is responsible for this wave that I've been fortunate enough to ride for the last few years. And that I did primarily because I didn't know what else to do. You might say I did it out of desperation.
Stephen Lang
#96. Love? Love is like holding water in your hands. You might have it for a time, but it escapes, leaving you with nothing.
Laura Lam
#97. You'll know you're doing something right if you feel you don't know what you're doing... if you know what you are doing, you are doing it right- but you might just repeating yourself...
Natasha Tsakos
#98. If 'Chicago Fire' goes for a long run, maybe I'll look for a place, but in my line of work, you can't throw your eggs into one basket because you might have to move. I'm not big on 'things,' though, so I don't own TVs, couches or cars because I wouldn't know where to put them.
Taylor Kinney
#99. Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.
Dean Koontz
#100. If you daren't enter the forest, or cannot find it, then perhaps you might find one tree, or a place where a tree could be, and just stop for a quiet moment to see what happens.
Viggo Mortensen