Perhaps Quotes
5223 Perhaps quotes by 2996 unique authors
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The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.
— Carmen Laforet
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I rather doubt that life has a meaning. If I thought perhaps it did, and I wanted to find out what its meaning is, I…
— Jerry Fodor
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Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never sounds as you dream it.
— Michael Shaara
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Perhaps every time anyone is praised it means that someone else somewhere is going to be ignored
— Margaret Mahy
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If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even do…
— Ariel Durant
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I've always sought to express a tension in form and meaning in order to achieve a veracity. I have come to the conclusion that the…
— Nancy Spero
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Visually Agincourt is a pre-Raphaelite, perhaps better a Medici Gallery print battle - a composition of strong verticals and horizontals and a conflict of rich…
— John Keegan
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We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are…
— Martin Van Creveld
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Life does not give itself to one who tries to keep all its advantages at once. I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely…
— Leon Blum
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It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that 'property is robbery' to learn that he was perhaps the most…
— Benjamin Tucker
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I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much too seriously, and…
— Nick Hornby
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For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This…
— David F. Houston
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Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.
— Franklin Knight Lane
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Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all, be a sort…
— Gilbert Ryle
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Learning appears as a way of staying young, perhaps of staying alive, and also as a way of growing up, perhaps facing death.
— Richard Wollheim
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If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.
— Seth Godin
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The whole universe or the structure that perceives it is a worthy opponent, but try as I may I can not escape the sound of…
— Julian Assange
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With the early prototypes, I held the phone to my ear and my ear [would] dial the number. You have to detect all sorts of…
— Jonathan Ive
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Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue, have a horror…
— Massad Ayoob
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In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones--when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete as the pentatonic…
— Charles Ives
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You can't get a leopard to change his spots. In fact, now that I come to think of it, you can't really get a leopard…
— Unknown Author
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However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental…
— Kate Millett
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Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating disorders and self-mutilation.…
— Sheila Jeffreys
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If everybody would agree that their current reality is A reality, and that what we essentially share is our capacity for constructing a reality, then…
— Francisco Varela
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When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that…
— Amelie Mauresmo
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