Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herman Melville

But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build upon.

Jean Toomer

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

Gucci Mane

I go to the club just like a normal person. I might go to the studio, but I go everywhere like a normal person would.

Harriet Martineau

I wrote because I could not help it. There was something that I wanted to say, and I said it: that was all. The fame and the money and the usefulness might or might not follow. It was not by my endeavor if they did.

Gregory Maguire

If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing realization that my playing might have been better.

Ignatius of Loyola

Calisto, a companion of Ignatius, and who on recovering from a severe illness had heard of the imprisonment of Ignatius, hastened from Segnovia, where he was staying, and came to Alcala, that he, too, might be cast into prison.

Gore Vidal

You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: 'Where are the readers?'

Gillian Jacobs

Ken Jeong might be my biggest fan.

Barbara Mertz

kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.

Lucille Ball

When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.

Karl Popper

Psychologism is, I believe, correct only in so far as it insists upon what may be called 'methodological individualism' as opposed to 'methodological collectivism'; it rightly insists that the 'behaviour' and the 'actions' of collectives, such as states or social groups, must be reduced to the behaviour and to the actions of human individuals. But the belief that the choice of such an individualist method implies the choice of a psychological method is mistaken.

Justin Cronin

It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own.

Charles Stross

Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.

Chanakya

Low minded people are fraudulent, wicked and chaeat. They shouldnot be trusted. To h ave faith in low minded ones is mistake in policy and useless because they are not trustworthy. An administrator should not invited calamity by trusting the low minded ones.