I Quotes
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“I might find that I have a habit of being jealous and comparing myself with other people and riveting my attention on how much somebody else is accomplishing or doing, or how much better they are at such and such. First, I might recognize the story - the mental images and internal dialogue - and say, "Okay, comparing mind." Then, rather than staying caught in the content, I'll bring my attention into my body and open to the immediate feelings that are there.”
“I might get arrested, but I wasn't likely to get dissected. This is my life.”
Source: Ashes of Honor
“I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in.”
“I might get scared of a really big dog, but I don't scare easy. As a youngster I used to watch all the scary stuff by myself, so nothing really gets to me now. There's actually a new series on TV called Hellevator and I filled out an application to be on the show because I love that type of stuff.”
“I might get some more animals or something, but I'm done with the kids. I got a boy, I got a girl, and I got an older boy. I'm straight.”
“I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.”
“I might go play the LPGA full-time and then, after I get better, go to the PGA full-time. Or just try to play both. It will be fun.”
“i might go see
London After Midnight
at Coven 13 tonight
i might sit at home
and write lousy poems
i might play with my
cat and then go
trick people to death
it’s a
freeze
frame
happenstance
reality
of sickness”
Source: Shadows Before the Maiming
“I might go to some tiny little town in Idaho with, like, three people living there.”
“I might go visit it one day, but I couldn't do any more than just visit. I love it, don't get me wrong, but it's just too big. I'm going to be at a lot of other conventions this year, with the book and everything.”
“I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up.”
Source: Johnno
“I might hatch an idea in my comfort zone, but to bring it to reality requires bravery.”
“I might hate what I am, at least I don't hate what I'm not”
“I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.”
“I might have a little bit of cellulite. I might not be toned everywhere. I might struggle in this area or that. But accepting that just empowers me.”
“I might have accomplished great feats but that does not mean I am great. Greatness is only achieved when I have used every single drop of potential my maker has placed inside of me therefore I keep going till my dying breath”
“I might have added, as it entered my mind to do, that some people found satisfaction in being. Being. Others in becoming. Being people have all the breaks. Becoming people are very unlucky, always in a tizzy. The Becoming people are always have to make explanations or offer justifications of the Being people. While the Being people provoke these explanations.”
Source: Henderson the Rain King
“I might have added, as it entered my mind to do, that some people found satisfaction in being. Being. Others in becoming. Being people have all the breaks. Becoming people are very unlucky, always in a tizzy. The Becoming people are always having to make explanations or offer justifications of the Being people. While the Being people provoke these explanations.”
Source: Henderson the Rain King
“I might have arguments with the size of Reagan's military buildup, but given the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, staying ahead of the Soviets militarily seemed a sensible thing to do. Pride in our country, respect for our armed services, a healthy appreciation for the dangers beyond our borders, an insistence that there was no easy equivalence between East and West--in all this I had no quarrel with Reagan. And when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, I had to give the old man his due, even if I never gave him my vote.”
Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
“I might have become a millionaire, but I chose to become a tramp.”
“I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off.”
“I might have been able to make it as a pitcher except for one thing: I had a rather awkward motion and every time I brought my left arm forward I hit myself in the ear.”
“I might have been afraid that if I really loved someone and needed her, one day she might suddenly disappear without a word, and I'd be left all alone.”
“I might have been alone and left to my own devices, but I had good weapons and an excellent horse, which I could depend upon.”
Source: Old Surehand
“I might have been an unfortunate little bull in a Spanish arena, I got so smartingly touched up by these moral goads.”
Source: Great Expectations
“I might have been born before computers, Quinlan, but I do know how to use them.”
Source: House of Earth and Blood
“I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and the stars.”
“I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.”
“I might have been born just plain white trash / but Fancy was my name.”
“I might have been curious about actors' lives when I was growing up. That's human nature.”
“I might have been eleven years old and a little socially immature, but I recognized a gauntlet being thrown down when I saw it, and I had no choice but to take it up.”
Source: If I Stay
“I might have been just half an Asian, but in America it was all or nothing when it came to race. You were either white or you weren’t. Funnily enough, I had never felt inferior because of my race during my foreign student days. I was foreign by definition and therefore was treated as a guest. But now, even though I was a card-carrying American with a driver’s license, Social Security card, and resident alien permit, Violet still considered me as foreign, and this misrecognition punctured the smooth skin of my self-confidence. Was I just being paranoid, that all-American characteristic? Maybe Violet was stricken with colorblindness, the willful inability to distinguish between white and any other color, the only infirmity Americans wished for themselves.”
Source: The Sympathizer
“I might have been made of metal once, but not anymore. Like Pinocchio, I'd turned into a real girl. So far it sucked. But there was nothing I could do about it.”
Source: How to Say Goodbye in Robot
“I might have been slight-but I was smart and cagey.”
“I might have been tempted to hit him square in the jaw had he not taken me by the shoulders and pinned me against the wall. There was hardly any space left between us, just a thin boundary of air, but Patch managed to eliminate it. "Let's be honest, Nora. You've got it bad for me." His eyes held a lot of depth. "And I've got it bad for you." He leaned into me and put his mouth on mine. A lot of him was on me, actually. We touched base at several strategetic locations down our bodies, and it took all my willpower to break away.”
Source: Hush, Hush
“I might have been through some changes, but changing the way I look wasn't one of the major ones. To be honest. I'm sick of the whole subject of my hair. I mean, are you just sitting there looking at my hair, or are you looking at me?”
“I might have been too tiny for it, but I wanted to become a professional tennis player. I was a pretty good tennis player as a kid, but ultimately I just don't think that I have that jock mentality needed for sports.”
“I might have been trouble, but in trouble I was - Since That Day”
Source: Coming Home
“I might have changed, but that did not mean the sport had.”
Source: Racing Through the Dark: Crash. Burn. Coming Clean. Coming Back.
“I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two... Or three but that had never stopped me from loving you.”
“I might have faults but I'm not a big head.”
“I might have felt better if he were dead, I thought, since behind every memory of him was the possibility of reconciling, and thus more heartbreak and indignity. I felt weak.”
Source: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“I might have felt broken, but at the end of it all, I didn't allow myself to break.”
“I might have gone a little overboard today buying some new spices- I swear I can spend all day at the supermarket. I especially love the one in our neighborhood that brings in ingredients straight from the island. I get to walk the aisles and pick up herbs and peppers from all over the world, thinking of all the ways to remix my favorite dishes.”
Source: With the Fire on High
“I might have had too many friends in my twenties. I probably said yes too much, and then I had to learn how to say no. How to get away in order to work on stuff.”
“I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.”
“I might have it at six-fifteen a.m. just as soon as I get in, but usually it's about eleven o'clock when I'll have a glass of sherry.”
“I might have kept gawking at her forever while she looked quizzically back at me.”
Source: Let It Snow
“I might have known. Nobody ever does want me. I might have known. It was too good to
be true. Dreams never last,” I sniffed, “I should have known that even you wouldn’t want
me.”
I plopped down on a nearby bench and tried to swallow my sobs. Matthew and Marilla
glanced at each other confused. Oh, why did I always let my hopes run away with me?
Nothing would ever change. Who would ever want a homely, emotional, sixteen year old?”
“I might have known,” said Eeyore. “After all, one can’t complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said ‘Bother!’. The Social Round. Always something going on.”
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh