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Perhaps Quotes by John Steinbeck
- Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America.
- Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human…
- There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil…
- What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else-a friend with special knowledge.
- Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
- After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed.…
- Perhaps it takes courage to raise children..
- But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potentially moral…
- What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps…
- Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.
- I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret…
- We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest…
- Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
- When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they will break and…
- When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure…
- When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this…
More Perhaps Quotes
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon
- Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. — Pearl Bailey
- I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul,… — Ansel Adams
- Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. — Honore de Balzac
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. — Honore de Balzac
- I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps… — Roger Bannister
- Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in… — Jacques Barzun