Perhaps Quotes
5223 Perhaps quotes by 2996 unique authors
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It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of…
— William Rehnquist
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Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure there can be…
— William Rehnquist
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Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that Ive always demanded more from the sunset,
— Lars von Trier
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A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the –not always greatly…
— Paul Celan
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Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology…
— Evelyn Waugh
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Le Chiffre was serving a wonderful purpose, a really vital purpose, perhaps the best and highest purpose of all. By his evil existence, which I…
— Ian Fleming
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I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and…
— Don DeLillo
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I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly — and with…
— Kay Ryan
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Perhaps the mere idea of receiving a nasty missive will allow animal researchers to empathize with their victims for the first time in their lousy…
— Ingrid Newkirk
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Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict…
— Victor Hugo
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Its obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.
— Daniel Keys Moran
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As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live…
— David Byrne
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I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The time comes to every dog when it ceases to care for people merely for biscuits or bones, or even for caresses, and walks out…
— Frances Power Cobbe
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They do not know what they say. If it came to a conflict of arms, the war will last at least four years. Northern politicians…
— Robert E. Lee
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The supreme virtue in art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives it the right to be.
— Willa Cather
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Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their power…
— Shigeru Ban
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed
— Gavrilo Princip
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I’m not for profiling people on the color of their skin, or on their religion, but I would take into account where they've been traveling…
— Rand Paul
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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps the more precious thing is the courage acquired through endeavor, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of…
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially…
— Walt Whitman
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There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have…
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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We are met today in a general conference. Sometimes, I hear, the people feel, some of them, that perhaps we are not quite as "peppy"…
— J. Reuben Clark
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Traditionally, sex has been a very private, secretive activity. Herein perhaps lies its powerful force for uniting people in a strong bond. As we make…
— Thomas Szasz
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In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose itself on reality…
— Albert Camus
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