Perhaps Quotes
5223 Perhaps quotes by 2996 unique authors
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I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier…
— Jim Rohn
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The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to…
— Boy George
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Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century
— Lewis Mumford
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My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred to…
— David Suzuki
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It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man, some modern philosophers tell us, is alienated from his world: he is a stranger and afraid in a world he never made. Perhaps he…
— Karl Popper
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have…
— Charles Darwin
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Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment
— David Attenborough
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We estimate that there are perhaps 20,000 prehistoric hunter-gatherers frozen up in those glaciers. Now, if they simply thaw and wander around, it's not a…
— John Hodgman
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Perhaps because the challenges we face in our country are so daunting, we are also tempted by shortcuts. We tell ourselves that if we invent…
— Helen Zille
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I do not believe that every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That would be perfection. But I…
— Jackie Robinson
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There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases-perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies-for which there is no…
— Margaret Mead
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Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if…
— Ronald Reagan
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The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily - and perhaps most tellingly - described in terms of the genesis of the…
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.
— Pearl S. Buck
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Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said that religion was…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. Perhaps there are some other unchangeable differences; probably there are…
— Naomi Weisstein
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Who knows if the one whose hands are bloodied with Father Grande's murder, or the one who shot Father Navarro, if those who have killed,…
— Oscar Romero
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I shall spend every moment loving. One who loves does not notice her trials; or perhaps more accurately, she is able to love them. I…
— Bernadette Soubirous
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What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to…
— Saint Augustine
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The frenetic pace of modern life can lead to an obscuring or even a loss of what is truly human... Perhaps more than in other…
— Pope John Paul II
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It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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According to Herodotus, the ancient Persians felt that what was necessary in the background of a young man entering adulthood was his ability to ride,…
— Jeff Cooper
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Perhaps the most typically American place in America.
— James Bryce
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