Potentially Quotes

286 Potentially quotes by 261 unique authors

Anyone who is disturbed by the idea of newts in a nightclub is potentially dangerous. — Frank Zappa
A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to entertain by Mr.… — Neil Gaiman
How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by… — Tom Robbins
What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is… — William James
In a way, watching an attractive, potentially dangerous guy play guitar is a little like watching a tiger agree to do tricks for his trainer.… — Merrill Markoe
Potentially evil. Potentially good, too, I suppose. Just this huge powerful potentiality waiting to be shaped. — Neil Gaiman
I do love the sound of ripping corn husks. The violence of the noise, the sustained popping and shoring of the silky organic threads, made… — Reif Larsen
Erik Erikson has commented: Potentially creative men like (Bernard) Shaw build the personal fundament of their work during a self-decreed moratorium, during which they often… — Lewis Hyde
I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the… — Hugh Prather
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain… — Joan Didion
I smiled at him, as Doyle squeezed my hand and I squeezed back. "Some people are addicted to falling in love, Doctor. Some people love… — Laurell K. Hamilton
The soul of man, left to its own natural level, is a potentially lucid crystal left in darkness. It is perfect in its own nature,… — Thomas Merton
People--stupid when they lived; potentially stupid when they died. — Rob Thurman
Today the U.S. government can demand the nation-wide recall of defective softball bats, sneakers, stuffed animals, and foam-rubber toy cows. But it cannot order a… — Eric Schlosser
Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life with a successive life is… — Lionel Shriver
Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as is our separateness,… — R. D. Laing
Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor. — Derrick Bell
If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to… — Simon Pegg
Once you've stopped loving someone breaking his or her heart's just an unpleasant chore you have to get behind you. My God, you really don't… — Glen Duncan
In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may be the apprehensive… — R. D. Laing

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