Perhaps Quotes
5223 Perhaps quotes by 2996 unique authors
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If you begin feeling beaten, you will achieve nothing. If you fight, you will perhaps have a chance of achieving something.
— Raymond Aubrac
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What is it about maps and globes that seems to require our undivided attention? I've spent hours looking at maps of places I will never…
— Dan Kieran
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It's special, grandparents and grandchldren. So much simpler. Is it always so, I wonder? I think perhaps it is. While one's child takes a part…
— Kate Morton
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In Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline seamlessly knits together the past and present of two women, one young and one old. Kline reminds us that…
— Ann Hood
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Excess of trouble may, for a time, distract and overwhelm the soul. Our Lord himself seems to have experienced somewhat of this. Our prayers, perhaps,…
— Charles Simeon
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If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to…
— Richard Stallman
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I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue…
— James Maslow
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At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where…
— James McGreevey
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Of those who start TaeKwonDo training, only about 5% stick with it until they achieve the Black Belt Rank. Then perhaps 80% of those who…
— Unknown Author
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If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be in great peril…
— Amy Carmichael
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Those individuals who give moral considerations a much greater weight than considerations of expediency represent a comparatively small minority, five percent of the people perhaps.…
— Leo Szilard
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Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines…
— George Eliot
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Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.
— Thomas Nagel
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If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Perhaps the greatest justice issue of all is intergenerational theft. The Eighth Commandment says "Thou shall not steal," but every day we live unsustainably we…
— Fred Small
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For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought. Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because…
— Okakura Kakuzo
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To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the head…
— Al Alvarez
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About one month before he was killed, when asked by David Frost how his obituary should read: Something about the fact that I made some…
— Robert Kennedy
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Happiness has nothing to do with what you have or don't have. Happiness is related to what you are. However many things you may collect,…
— Rajneesh
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Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other…
— G I Gurdjieff
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Perhaps myself the first, at some expense of popularity, to unfold the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me to become his…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.
— Carl Jung
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Among the most disheartening and dangerous of . . . advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest friends, members of your…
— Minnie Maddern Fiske
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A short term view will lead to a partial and perhaps twisted view of the whole picture. A crucial element may be missing. We may…
— Max De Pree
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Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of…
— Irving Babbitt
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