I had purpose in my heart that I would stand up for the truth regardless of what I might lose in life.

What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time.

You might be a redneck if you refer to the time you won a free case of oil as the day my ship came in.

The closer to the top, the more grew in me the belief that it might be fulfilled, which most dreaming.

Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.

We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.

We're not perfect; we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.

I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.

I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.

I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope.

It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it.

I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.

George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.

There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency.

writers just kept on staring at nothing until they wrote something. Might be two minutes or two weeks.

Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying.

Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work.

Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.

The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real.

If it is your duty to croak like the toad, then go ahead! And with all your might! Make them hear you!

If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.

Above any commercial success one might enjoy, one's reputation for honesty is the most important thing

I've never had a day at work where I wasn't thrilled and grateful to be there, wherever that might be.

He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of it'.

When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

It's just the way things are. And you can't dwell on what might have been. You have to look at what is.

I loved you and you destroyed me. You took my heart and ripped it up. You might as well have staked me.

I'm not against TV; I don't go on the morning talk shows because I'm not invited. If I was, I might go.

He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been.

The Son of God came to seek us where we are in order that he might bring us to be with him where he is.

Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.

Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.

a lady could do, so I was told, just about nothing that she might want to do except attend all parties.

If we just create and don't think about what might happen, that's when we're going to get into trouble.

We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.

You might be a redneck if there is a sheet hanging in your closet and a gun rack hanging in your truck.

Can’t take a chance that one day, in one spot, somewhere, an exit might appear. We can’t give up. Ever.

I find myself every so often looking at my ground glass as though the unrecorded image might escape me!

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.

Donald Trump would not lose a single voter over any report indicating that his tax plan might not work.

Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.

I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.

She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.

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