The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might.
Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.
He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been.
Even if my strength should fail, my daring will win me praise: in might enterprises even the will to succeed is enough.
If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness.
And this is the truth. Because I may be only eighteen, but it already seems pretty obvious that the world is divided into two groups: the doers and the watchers. The people things happen to and the rest of us, who just sort of plod on with things. The Lulus and the Allysons. It never occurred to me that by pretending to be Lulu, I might slip into that other column, even for just a day.
You might have a past. . but guess what? You have a future, too.
If you lend your skills to other systems that you don't really believe in, then you might as well never have lived. You haven't expressed yourself.
Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?
I could throw pretty hard. I might strike out 16 guys, but I might walk 10. I mean, I was wild.
Tell you what," he said, noticing my stare. "I know you can't get a license, but I might be able to do something better. " "What?" He smiled. "How would you like to come to school with me tomorrow and see a real, live locker?" I'm pretty sure I squealed.
I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what its potential might be.
Might I," quavered Mary, "might I have a bit of earth?
He gave us eyes to see them, And lips that we might tell How great is God Almighty, Who has made all things well.
I think there might even come a time when I would read Virgil again. Ovid's Metamorphoses, perhaps, not because the music goes round and round and never comes out, but because it's an extraordinary picture of ceaseless change that never comes to an end.
My job is not to predict everything that might happen in the future, but to address what we can do today.
There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been.
Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don’t know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.
Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory.
Peace might sell, but who's buying?