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If revival is being withheld from us it is because some idol remains still enthroned; because we still insist in placing our reliance in human schemes; because we still refuse to face the unchangeable truth that It is not by might, but by My Spirit. -- Jonathan Goforth
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. -- Samuel Johnson
I think it takes time to find your natural style and learn not to be swayed by trends that might not flatter you. -- Martine McCutcheon
A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making. -- Ryan Phillippe
Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope. -- John Boyd Orr
With 'Crucible,' any big changes I wanted to make I only had to run by Lucasfilm, not other authors whose stories I might affect. -- Troy Denning
Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by government. -- Marshall Herskovitz
From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek. -- Heinrich Schliemann
Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines by memory. -- Robert Pinsky
Everyone agrees that animals should not be exposed to unnecessary pain. But neither should scientists be hamstrung by the requirement to use anesthesia in every animal experiment that might cause pain. -- Timothy Noah
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. -- J. K. Rowling
I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down. -- David Byrne
I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps. -- Carter Burwell
Sure, I've done movies in which I was embarrassed by my performance, or might not have cared for a co-star. Then I'd have to tell lies, like, 'Oh, we love each other; everything was perfect!' -- Sandra Bullock
I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me. -- Bram Fischer
Every single song I've ever written is sung by a character created by somebody else. Some might have a jaundiced view of love, some don't. But none of these songs is me singing - not a single one. -- Stephen Sondheim
Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not fully analogous to physical disease. They resist classification, and might better be known by their symptoms and the individualized sufferings of patients than by assigned names. -- Sherwin B. Nuland
It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes. -- John Clayton
I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power so far. When we do acquire power, we might turn out to have an equal impulse toward aggression. -- Gloria Steinem
To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world. -- Barbara Boxer
Perhaps looking out through big baby eyes - if we could - would not be as revelatory experience as many imagine. We might see a world inhabited by objects and people, a world infused with causation, agency, and morality - a world that would surprise us not by its freshness but by its familiarity. -- Paul Bloom
Imagination might be scarier than reality ... but not by much. -- James Siegel
Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature? -- Maurice Ravel
I judge people by what they might be, - not are, nor will be. -- Robert Browning
How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it? -- Marcel Proust
While might certainly does not make right, neither does right by itself make might. -- Richard M. Nixon
Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity? -- John Stuart Mill
If your time is worth anything, travel by air. If not, you might just as well walk. -- Will Rogers
There's not a country on earth that doesn't feel that it might be invaded by Donald Trump's regime. -- Tom Morello
Money might be a reward (by-product) but should not always be the only goal of your efforts and enterprise. -- Archibald Marwizi
It might be funny when you get hit by a car, but not when you get run over by one. -- Rob Campbell
I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct. -- Haruki Murakami
If the world appears abundant in smiles or overwhelmed by scowls, you might ask yourself if you're not to blame. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol. -- Diana Wynne Jones
Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go. -- Douglas A. Lawson
One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop. -- Noam Chomsky
It felt odd to realize she was frightened more by what he might know, and not of what he might be. -- J.R. Ward
A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it. -- Henry David Thoreau
You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules. -- Bobby Jones
An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original. -- Umberto Eco
Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea. -- R. C. Sproul
The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone. -- Alan Hirsch
...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness. -- Jasper Fforde
Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties? -- Lou Andreas-SalomÃ©
Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories. -- Teju Cole
Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him. -- Jennifer Donnelly
Sometimes, when you're writing sentence by sentence, you're not really sure what footprints you're going to fall into, or what ghosts might appear. -- Karen Russell
You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. Thatâ??s why the dark is always close by. -- Daniel Handler
I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious. -- Sherman Alexie
If she [Hillary Clinton] had not stood by the guy at any point, that might have meant the end of his [Bill Clinton's] career. -- Rush Limbaugh
With Crucible, any big changes I wanted to make I only had to run by Lucasfilm, not other authors whose stories I might affect. -- Troy Denning
Leaders are not buffeted about by circumstance. They make what is into what might be, transforming challenging situations by means of courage and insight. -- Diane Dreher
Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be. -- H. G. Wells
I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out. -- John Locke
Were it not for gravity one man might hurl another by a puff of his breath into the depths of space, beyond recall for all eternity. -- Roger Joseph Boscovich
The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values. -- David Ben-Gurion
I will have faith that, though I might not understand why adversity happens, by my conscious choice I can find strength, compassion, and grace through my trials. -- Joe Tye
The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example -- Mark Twain
I can't even go to the dry cleaner by myself anymore. You're seen in public with anybody that you might not even know, and you're speculated about. -- Jessica Biel
You get up in the morning because you might meet a woman. And if you stay at home by yourself, alone, you will not meet a woman. -- James Ellroy
It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go. -- Ann Patchett
The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla. -- J. D. Salinger
You might not think it now, but if you're one of God's children, you're going to figure it out by the end of your life God is good. -- James MacDonald
What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood. No, it was that she might push him away. -- John Ajvide Lindqvist
This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen. -- Albert Claude

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