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Today's devices blurt out the absolute truth as they know it. A smart device in the future might know when NOT to blurt out the truth.
I am often disgusted at hearing young people I know, declare that they are afraid of doing this or that, because they MIGHT be killed.
She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.
I had the sensation that I might always be running like this, that I would always have to run, and that I would always be able to run.
A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can't read sexuality off of gender.
Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.
My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem.
And when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, 'Oh! You're gonna be the mayor?' And I hadn't even read the script yet.
I'm an owl; I'm up. I probably go to sleep during the time when most people wake up. The first half of the day, you might not catch me.
Where I'm at now is awesome. A different road might have led me to a different place, and I wouldn't be happy doing anything but music.
Above all, avoid the Indiana Jones fedora. It's very yesterday, and if you wear a black one, you might be mistaken for an Orthodox Jew.
Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.
I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.
I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.
For did my dreams come true when I looked at you. And maybe too, if you would believe, you too might be overjoyed, over loved, over me.
Some secrets, she thought, were better told; some were better left the burden of the carrier, that they might not cause pain to others.
It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction.
I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.
Being traded is like celebrating your 100th birthday. It might not be the happiest occasion in the world, but consider the alternative.
Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.
I can look at something that others (might not) and I can see the value in it. I can make that film a film that everybody wants to see.
Just because you listen to The National, Spotify might tell you that you want to listen to The Lumineers' music. Well, maybe you don't.
I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.
They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
Love is a dangerous thing, it can be great and it can be awful. It might make or break your life. It could even change you as a person.
Phil was mumbling that Reuben might become a writer after all and writers had a way of "redeeming everything that ever happens to them.
How much better might human communication be if words were as precious as diamonds? If each of us were allotted only 100 words per day?
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
If you're just going to meet consumer or clients' demands, you might as well be a plumber - the work will be more frequently available.
A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.
Be your own artist, and always be confident in what youre doing. If youre not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.
One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.
Still when I lost her, I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life.
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.
He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves.
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Believing everything she read In the daily news, (No in-between to choose) She thought that only One side won, Not that BOTH Might lose.
We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.
As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, stranger in a strange land, and walk miles without finding a place to lay my head
The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.
I might put a nicer pair of heels on and a cooler outfit, but I'm still that naughty girl who likes a slice of cheesecake on my day off.
We all have what might be called a culturally modified brain, and as cultures evolve, they continually lead to new changes in the brain.
I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.
To pray against temptation, and yet rush into occasions, is to thrust your fingers into the fire, and then pray they might not be burnt.
Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might.
If vampires ever spend less time playing theatrics and living down to their stereotypes, they might actually take over the world someday