We like love - we love love - but perhaps its only meaning lies in its ubiquitous meaninglessness. We apprehend it, we… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish. — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
When I was thirty and perhaps forty, I did not want a wife. It was too much fun being single. — Jacob Ruppert Copy Share Image
Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do - making life flow more easily - but art confronts… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
As a multisport athlete, I was always fascinated with competition and how to win. At HBS and later at the Harvard Department… — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
When I was a child, my father used to take me for walks, often along a river or by the sea. We… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Hiding behind a tougher outer image as a teenager feels cooler and safer compared to admitting, perhaps, that you're the very opposite. — Alex Lawther Copy Share Image
Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
As he enters his final term, with the elegiac music playing out there in the distance, Barack Obama will use the history… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
There were many influences on me while growing up. In the late Seventies and early Eighties when I was growing up in… — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader… — John Updike Copy Share Image
If I wasn't plagued by needing to write things, that would perhaps be a blessing. — Conor McPherson Copy Share Image
In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Since 2006, when the Second Lebanon War killed perhaps 2,000 Lebanese, many of them civilians, and led to the destruction of an… — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
I don't like the word 'businesswoman.' Perhaps 'committed mother' would be the best description. — Steffi Graf Copy Share Image
Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians. — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
As a kid in New Zealand, you play cricket in summer and rugby in winter. I played cricket and hockey. Not rugby.… — Glenn Turner Copy Share Image
Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
People tell me that my appearance in real life is better than on-screen. Perhaps people think I am exactly like the characters… — Kapil Sharma Copy Share Image
In terms of development of the company, the vast majority of our sales are in the Far East and we will expect… — David Milne Copy Share Image
I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I think about things like the fact that nobody knows what time is. Time is what? Nobody can describe it, even physics… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I think books with spiritual themes simply point to the deeper mysteries of life - to what lies beyond us, to what's… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
