Perhaps Quotes
5223 Perhaps quotes by 2996 unique authors
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Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
— Luc de Clapiers
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Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.
— Terence Conran
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Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where there…
— Moss Hart
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You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple,…
— Larry McMurtry
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"a fatal and perhaps fateful error of judgment" "...this was the last chance for the United Nations to get a grip on themselves and apply…
— Alec Douglas-Home
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I admire young people who are concerned with the affairs of their community and nation perhaps because I also became involved in struggle whist I…
— Nelson Mandela
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Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.
— Bill Bryson
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Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.
— Albert Camus
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...perhaps that is what ultimately unites us as a world: the fact that, no matter how prosperous a nation, how developed, all share the plight…
— Audrey Hepburn
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Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an uncertain future and…
— James Surowiecki
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I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my protagonist.…
— Ian Rankin
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All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.
— Lytton Strachey
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The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I…
— William Saroyan
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The McCarthy period came along...and many of the other scientists who had been working on these same lines gave up. Probably saying "Why should I…
— Linus Pauling
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Would it not be well this Christmas to give first to the Lord, directly through obedience, sacrifice, and love, and then to give to him…
— John Andreas Widtsoe
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I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike…
— Helena Christensen
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I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own powers arising out…
— Alexander Alekhine
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Many an expert says that there is a certain affinity between (Capablanca's style) and that of the world master, Lasker. There may be some truth…
— Unknown Author
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I'm glad folks think I look different, I'm living a different, happy, more fulfilling life, and I'm thrilled that perhaps it shows.
— Renee Zellweger
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For me, chess is at the same time a game, a sport, a science and an art. And perhaps even more than that,. There is…
— Bent Larsen
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For me, chess is not a profession, it is a way of life, a passion. People may feel that I have conquered the peak and…
— Viswanathan Anand
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Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.
— Siegbert Tarrasch
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I am not an artist, and I never intended to be one. I hope I have made some good photographs, but what I really hope…
— Cornell Capa
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It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or ruins his pictures.…
— Bill Brandt
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