Perhaps Quotes
5223 quotes by 2996 authors
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Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was…
— Angela Carter
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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come…
— Quintilian
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The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little and the kite soars a…
— Lin Yutang
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Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience…
— Greg LeMond
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The battle is going very heavily against us. We're being crushed by the enemy weight. We are facing very difficult days, perhaps the most difficult…
— Erwin Rommel
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Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines... or other new beginnings.
— Amby Burfoot
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The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on earth, and perhaps his last chance to produce himself a rational…
— Unknown Author
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I wonder if I could have been here before as I drive up the Roman road the Theater seems familiar - perhaps I headed a…
— George S. Patton
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Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.
— Elizabeth Carter
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He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music…
— Henry David Thoreau
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To clink glasses of a freshly made, seasonal beer, preferably in a pub or garden, with friends and perhaps new acquaintances, is a ritual that…
— Michael Jackson
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What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter at around forty,…
— John Updike
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Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion.
— Richard Armour
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'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the…
— G I Gurdjieff
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Helping others is perhaps the greatest joy! You cannot have a perfect day without helping others with no thought of getting something in return.
— John Wooden
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The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold, longs to have…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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