Perhaps Quotes

5223 Perhaps quotes by 2996 unique authors

Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things… — Lillian Hellman
Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a… — P D Ouspensky
In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in… — P D Ouspensky
Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature. — Roy Blount, Jr.
Patriotism is not dying for one's country, it is living for one's country. And for humanity. Perhaps that is not as romantic, but it's better. — Agnes Macphail
I could say that all my books were conceived by the time I was twenty, although they were not to be written for another thirty… — Marguerite Yourcenar
Perhaps, in the end, there are no such things as creative people; there are only sharp observers with sensitive hearts. — Yasmin Ahmad
I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say.… — Abraham Lincoln
Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound — Maxine Hong Kingston
Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor. — C S Forester
Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in a psychotic episode… — Louise Penny
Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before — Anita Hill
Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen,… — Pico Iyer
The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows. — Freya Stark
Perhaps five or even ten per cent of men can do something rather well. It is a tiny minority who can do anything really well,… — G. H. Hardy
Finally, if you will permit me, I'd like to make a comment which in my mind, is indicative, perhaps, of the greater significance of football… — Nile Kinnick
In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother’s first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet and… — Charlotte Mason
The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar. — Theodor Mommsen
In his fifty-six years he was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate, rebel, dictator – perhaps even… — Adrian Goldsworthy
Ownership is not limited to material things. It can also apply to points of view. Once we take ownership of an idea — whether it’s… — Dan Ariely
The words 'forse che si,' 'forse che no', 'perhaps yes,' 'perhaps no,' repeat along all paths. — Frances Mayes
Many, perhaps most, people who lose their jobs are mistaken about the reason for which they lost their jobs. Some will say that they're failures,… — Harvey Mackay
There is nothing glamorous in what I do. I'm a working man. Perhaps I’m luckier than most in that I receive considerable satisfaction from doing… — Saul Bass
Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior. — Frans de Waal
The Spirit of Cities presents a new approach to the study of cities in which the focus is placed on a city's defining ethos or… — Nathan Glazer

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