Quotes of: Perhaps Keyword

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

C. S. Forester

Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

Edmond de Goncourt

Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.

Cecil Beaton

Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.

Conrad Black

There is no greater solitude than that of the samurai unless it is that of the tiger in the jungle... Perhaps...

Jean-Pierre Melville

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

J. B. Priestley

Perhaps religion provides the justification for wars, but science provides the weapons.

James Rozoff

Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

David Mitchell

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Claude Monet

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.

Charles Peguy

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The beautiful is as useful as the useful. ... perhaps more so.

Victor Hugo

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Winston Churchill

This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.

Winston S. Churchill

See,' said (Liberty Hyde) Bailey, 'how the leaves of this small plant stand forth extended to bathe themselves in the light. ... THese leaves will die. They will rot. They will disappear into the universal mold. The energy that is in them will be rel...

Care of the Earth

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? The reason is clearly that the human heart as modern civilisation has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is pron...

The Conquest of Happiness

It is not perhaps a question of truthfulness; it is rather a natural incapacity to think for herself, to take cognizance of herself in her own brain, and not in the eyes and in the lips of others; even when the ingenuously write into little secret di...

The Book of Masks

Don't most astrophysicists now predict some "end of the line" - an end to it all? Not just the death of things, but the annihilation of everything. Some great contraction, or collapse. Or, perhaps, some vast dissipation into eternal emptiness. Maybe ...

Citations: A Brief Anthology

Perhaps my sense of reality is not very highly developed, perhaps I lack a sound and reassuring instinct for the solid facts of our earthly existence; I can’t always tell memories from dreams, and often I mistake dreams, coming to life again in col...

All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

But perhaps there are in us forces other than mind and heart, other even than the senses - mysterious forces which take hold of us in the moments when the others are asleep; and perhaps it was such forces that Melchior had found in the depths of thos...

Jean Christophe Vol I

There are certain things in a man's past which he does not divulge to everybody but, perhaps, only to his friends. Again there are certain things he will not divulge even to his friends; he will divulge them perhaps only to himself, and that, too, as...

Notes from Underground