Perhaps Quotes
5223 Perhaps quotes by 2996 unique authors
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If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one,…
— Tom Lehrer
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Perhaps I'll get used to this bizarre place called Hollywood, but I doubt it,
— Margaret Sullavan
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I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm…
— Tom Glazer
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I have decided to keep a record of my inmost real-self thoughts. Perhaps it will help me to find out what I really am like:…
— Rosamond Lehmann
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For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being…
— Rebecca West
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Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.
— Christian Lous Lange
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You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dali spent two months in jail in…
— Salvador Dali
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Perhaps we shall also have to hold in check other coloured peoples who will soon be in their certain prime, and thus preserve the world,…
— Heinrich Himmler
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Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.
— Peter Drucker
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Perhaps it was Maggie, perhaps not. In solitary moments magpies will perch on a branch and mutter soft soliloquies of whines and squeals and chatterings,…
— Stanley Crawford
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There would have to be bread, some rich, whole-grain bread and zwieback, and perhaps on a long, narrow dish some pale Westphalian ham laced with…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls - family, health, friends, integrity - are made…
— Gary W. Keller
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The soul of politeness is not a question of rules but of tranquility, humility, and simplicity. And in the taking of tea it finds perhaps…
— Dorothea Johnson
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If we live in such a way that the considerations of eternity press upon us, we will make better decisions. Perhaps this is why President…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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How can we keep growing instead of staying stuck-perhaps because we are fearful of making a "wrong" decision? Herbert Otto nudges us to get out…
— Herbert Otto Gille
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No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places…
— Randolph Bourne
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You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.
— Abraham Lincoln
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However, the daily life of the slaves in the South, as observed by many travelers, was obscured for all time by the relentless promotion of…
— Eustace Mullins
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In a perfect world perhaps we would all see more clearly. But this is not a perfect world, and it is enough to hope that…
— Kent Nerburn
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Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void, but the vastness…
— Helene Cixous
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Why is one a slave to thought ? Why has thought become so important in all our lives -thought being ideas, being the response to…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.
— Tara Brach
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In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps)…
— Simone Weil
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Scientists have one thing in common with children: curiosity. To be a good scientist you must have kept this trait of childhood, and perhaps it…
— Otto Robert Frisch
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative…
— Samuel Johnson
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