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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

I'm not paralyzed by fear about what might have been or what might be. I'm grateful for what is and I make excellent use of what I've got. — Linda Gray

You might want more time in your life to attempt the things you like to do, and not just perform the things you have to do. — Carew Papritz

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

If only we could be honest, both admit our fears, touch one another...Then, it might not be so hard to die - in a hospital - with friends close by. — American Journal Of Nursing

Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol. — Diana Wynne Jones

If the world appears abundant in smiles or overwhelmed by scowls, you might ask yourself if you're not to blame. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Our houses are protected by the good Lord and a gun, and you might meet 'em both if you show up here not welcome, son. — Josh Thompson

You can't NOT cross the street because you might get hit by a car. — Tanya Masse

If the court wasn't ruled by emotions, we might as well not have lawyers or judges. Let machines do the work for us. — Anonymous

The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone. — Alan Hirsch

It is not yours save by unhappy chance. It might have been mine. It should be mine. Give it to me! — J.R.R. Tolkien

Being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness. — Jasper Fforde

Those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other. — G.K. Chesterton

She might scream when the nightmares found her, but not by choice, not when she was awake. — Melissa Marr

Convincing Elinor, that whatever other unpardonable folly might bring him to Cleveland, he was not brought there by intoxication. — Jane Austen

It felt odd to realize she was frightened more by what he might know, and not of what he might be. — J.R. Ward

You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That's why the dark is always close by. — Lemony Snicket

Yo, dude. That shit might be cool on Saved By The Bell but not in real life. — Jason Myers

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

Money might be a reward (by-product) but should not always be the only goal of your efforts and enterprise. — Archibald Marwizi

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

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

Do you have any idea who you have the capacity to become? If you were not bound by the confines of your mind, who might you become? — T.D. Jakes

How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it? — Marcel Proust

A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it. — Henry David Thoreau

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

There are many things which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited — Charles Dickens

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

So claim'd are the Surveyors in their contra-solar Return by Might-it-bes, and If-it-weres, - not to mention What-was-thats. — Thomas Pynchon

I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct. — Haruki Murakami

Imagination might be scarier than reality ... but not by much. — James Siegel

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

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

I fear that should I seek out the treasures around me, they might by comparison reveal that I have not cultivated the treasures within me. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

He might be living on mice, but Chesterton does not look like an animal who is governed by his appetites. He's an ascetic, if Cathbad ever saw one. — Elly Griffiths

Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity? — John Stuart Mill

Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go. — Douglas A. Lawson

Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature? — Maurice Ravel

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

It also makes me wonder whether we might soon see pain relief trials funded not by drug companies, but by the gaming industry. — Jo Marchant

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

He allowed himself to imagine for the first time that the rest of his life might not be shaped by the misery of his past. — Julie Orringer

Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was - by Time corporate standards - just a little lazy. — David Halberstam

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

That the state might exceed its remit and damage the market by distorting its operations was not taken very seriously in these years. — Tony Judt

it is so inevitable that men will be fools that it is only by another shift of folly that one might not be — Blaise Pascal

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

And the Force? Well, it might be with him, or it might not. Kanan would get by, either way. He always had. — John Jackson Miller

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

While might certainly does not make right, neither does right by itself make might. — Richard M. Nixon

I judge people by what they might be, - not are, nor will be. — Robert Browning

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. — Samuel Johnson

If your time is worth anything, travel by air. If not, you might just as well walk. — Will Rogers

It might be funny when you get hit by a car, but not when you get run over by one. — Rob Campbell

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

Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet born. — Daniel Keyes

We might not be able to change the entire world but we can surely leave a mark by positively touching people's lives one at a time. — Lyra Parish

Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties? — Lou Andreas-Salome

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

Curiosity might have killed some cats,but not this one.
He's too tough.

Blacksad.
Intro by Steranko. — Jim Steranko

An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original. — Umberto Eco

I might not get what I want out of her by asking, but I have other methods of making this little bird sing. — Georgia Cates

I rationalize this by telling myself that while the work might be ignoble, it's not necessarily evil. We're not Hitler - we're just annoying people. — Dan Lyons

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

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

Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. — Shirley Jackson