Perhaps Quotes
5223 Perhaps quotes by 2996 unique authors
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Someone once asked me why people sing. I answered that they sing for many of the same reasons the birds sing. They sing for a…
— Linda Ronstadt
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Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the…
— William Peter Blatty
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Perhaps the Lord has called me and preserved me for this service not because I am particularly fit for it, or so that I can…
— Pope Paul VI
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There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of…
— Washington Irving
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Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.
— Daniel Goleman
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Suppose I grant that pigs and dogs are self-aware to some degree, and do have thoughts about things in the future. That would provide some…
— Peter Singer
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Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science directed usually by an individual senior scientist and a…
— Daniel Nathans
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Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply means experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly, a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven, that nothing is separate or extraneous.…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Our ascent, of course, does not end the possibility for new accomplishments on El Capitan. The day will probably come when this climb will be…
— Royal Robbins
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If you are committed to creating value and if you aren't afraid of hard times; obstacles become utterly unimportant. A nuisance perhaps; but with no…
— Caroline Myss
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Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is…
— William Hazlitt
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It is my wish to die of unique causes, perhaps in a high-speed tricycle crash, a bizarre stapling incient, or as a result of inadvertently…
— Paula Poundstone
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Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one book in his…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps…
— Jason Mraz
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The shapes and markings of Felix and Mickey, perhaps more than Oswald, have similarities, but when you are using such simple basic construction (i.e. circles)…
— Ollie Johnston
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To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares,- to be in love with one of those images was…
— Adolfo Bioy Casares
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Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.
— Adolfo Bioy Casares
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Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and Nature herself, obedient…
— Paul Gauguin
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It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.
— Jean Toomer
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Perhaps . . . our lot on the earth is to seek and to search. Now and again we find just enough to enable us…
— Jean Toomer
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I wasn't God's first choice for what I've done in China...I don't know who it was...it must have been a man...a well-educated man. I don't…
— Gladys Aylward
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Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain…
— Elie Wiesel
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I am constantly concernedĀ about being quoted in the press and perhaps saying the wrong thing orĀ having what I say misinterpreted and bringing reproach to the…
— Billy Graham
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Tens of thousands, perhaps millions, have come into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ, and they have not been saved.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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