Perhaps Quotes

5223 Perhaps quotes by 2996 unique authors

It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time… — Karl Marx
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of… — Hannah Arendt
If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend… — Hannah Arendt
There is no one who has no leisure time at all. The office is not a permanent sanctuary, and Sundays are an institution. Thus, in… — Unknown Author
My friend, there is nothing so sexy as a woman who is angry. Perhaps when she is even throwing things. — Marat Safin
I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin. — Robert Fitzgerald
History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a… — Jimmy Carter
Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my… — E. L. James
There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is… — Sherwood Anderson
It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect. — Sherwood Anderson
Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets. — Joseph Brodsky
It annoys me how pretty my voice is...that sounds incredibly immodest, but it annoys me how polite it can sound when perhaps what I'm singing… — Thom Yorke
One has to understand what the enemy is all about: the enemy's history, the enemy's culture, the enemy's aspirations. If you understand these well, you… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the… — Michael Moorcock
I have tried at times to place humans in perspective against the vastness of universal time and space. I have been concerned with where we,… — Clifford D. Simak
How is it to be explained that something inside me revolts against the playing of obvious moves? Perhaps we may perceive the underlying reason in… — Aron Nimzowitsch
Botvinnik's right! When he says such things, then he's right. Usually, I prefer not to study chess but to play it. For me chess is… — Mikhail Tal
I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world, I've learned a ridiculous amount… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
A hard truth: that courage can be without meaning or impact, need not be rewarded, or even known. The world has not been made in… — Guy Gavriel Kay
Many a scientist has patiently designed experiments for the purpose of substantiating his belief that animal operations are motivated by no purposes. He has perhaps… — Alfred North Whitehead
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was… — Edward Bellamy
Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned… — Studs Terkel
The magnitude of this event (9/11) turned the world into a scary place. And perhaps the scariest part of all was that these terrorists believed… — Nonie Darwish
I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the… — Malcolm X
Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my youth, to sacrifice… — Clarence Thomas

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