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5223 Perhaps quotes by 2996 unique authors

Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone.… — Andrea Dworkin
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into… — Beryl Markham
If you have flown, perhaps you can understand the love a pilot develops for flight. It is much the same emotion a man feels for… — Louise Thaden
"Just try and remember," I said slowly," that if God had intended men to fly He'd have given us wings. So all flying is flying… — Gavin Lyall
If you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you're writing. And if… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Out of my entire annual output of songs, perhaps two, or at the most three, came as a result of inspiration. We can never rely… — George Gershwin
It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people,… — George Washington
But might not his [the president's] nomination be overruled? I grant it might, yet this could only be to make place for another nomination by… — Alexander Hamilton
Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am… — Queen Victoria
The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and… — Mary McCarthy
When over long periods of human history I scrutinized the activity of the Jewish people, suddenly there arose up in me the fearful question whether… — Adolf Hitler
That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented, but the remedy… — James Madison
Improving the quality of life for people of this country is perhaps the most important duty of Government — John Prescott
Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting… — Eleanor Roosevelt
There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as… — Erica Jong
You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to maintain… — Thomas Jefferson
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers… — Nadine Gordimer
Of course, an exhausting day at sail lines and nets left little energy to expend on running or laughing. Perhaps that was why her parents… — Anne McCaffrey
Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known… — Philip K. Dick
Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon, its focus on… — Lauren Slater
Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad. — R. D. Laing
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins. — Joseph Epstein
Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy… — Studs Terkel
Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby. — Robert Breault
I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st Century science, and… — J. Allen Hynek

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