All Quotes

Perhaps I'm just fickle by nature and get tired of countries the way other women do of husbands or lovers.
‐‐ Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.
‐‐ Sean Connery

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
‐‐ Daniel Day-Lewis

Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's not an art form as far as I'm concerned, and yet it's a similar thing, once you can't land those jumps, you're disqualified - that precludes it from ever becoming a serious art form.
‐‐ Mark Morris

Perhaps I scare people. I don't know why.
‐‐ Max von Sydow

Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.
‐‐ Christian Lacroix

Perhaps I've been perceived more as a romantic comedy actor, but overall, I enjoy acting in any shape or form.
‐‐ Jaime Camil

Perhaps I was always intensely curious, but my Columbia education gave me a framework and a perspective to investigate new things - things that could be put into a historical and philosophical lineage.
‐‐ Daniel S. Loeb

Perhaps if I knew I would be stranded on an island with but one book, I would choose the Bible. For no religious reason whatsoever, but because of the varieties of stories, which might be useful as the days pass.
‐‐ Edward P. Jones

Perhaps, if science is clever enough to see, it will realize that religion may not be too far off with its concrete imagery; and that relative to the supreme creator, we humans are much like the microorganisms we scrutinize under the microscope.
‐‐ Robert Lanza

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
‐‐ Queen Rania of Jordan

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
‐‐ Georg C. Lichtenberg

Perhaps it has been too uncomfortable for those with vested interests to acknowledge, but we have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.
‐‐ Prince Charles

Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
‐‐ James Madison

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.
‐‐ Andre Norton

Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians know how faulty human memory can be.
‐‐ Alice Dreger

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
‐‐ Harriet Beecher Stowe

Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.
‐‐ Michael Morpurgo

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.
‐‐ Jose Saramago

Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.
‐‐ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, but it profoundly matters that the international community takes action to conserve it.
‐‐ Cary Fowler

Perhaps it's a curse, but when you are a Lutheran, you have a sense of responsibility.
‐‐ Martti Ahtisaari

Perhaps it's because a writer lives in Brooklyn that he'd want to get away from it. It can be very sustaining, this community of writers - sometimes it's the feeling of many hands giving you a boost. But all that identical ambition can be choking, too. The many hands slide up to your throat.
‐‐ Darin Strauss

Perhaps it's because I am reading romance differently than I did when I was younger, but I like my characters older. Grounded in reality. And nothing is more real than kids.
‐‐ Molly O'Keefe

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
‐‐ Aldous Huxley

Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.
‐‐ Jose Bergamin

Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries.
‐‐ Hugh Mackay

Perhaps it's time to stop analyzing Sarah Palin as a politician. Maybe, in her own muddled way, she is at last owning up to the fact that she has been miscast. You don't need politics anymore once you've discovered that the alchemy of celebrity has turned you into a 24-carat phenomenon.
‐‐ Tina Brown

Perhaps it should be obvious: Adultery is a social threat that arouses raw anger and fear, which the bellicose then need to discharge rather than merely feel, traditionally on the philandering wife or the female home-wrecker.
‐‐ Mary Gaitskill

Perhaps it should only be added that the Gorean master, though often strict, is seldom cruel. The girl knows, if she pleases him, her lot will be an easy one.
‐‐ John Norman

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.
‐‐ Stanley Kubrick

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.
‐‐ Charles Babbage

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

Perhaps life had a meaning that transcended race and colour. If it had, I could not find it in South Africa.
‐‐ Peter Abrahams

Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and act as if they understand what's going on; and some are elected to high office on the basis of their ability to create this impression.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
‐‐ Joseph Conrad

Perhaps, like the way these leaves spread out and the way they curl in many directions and how they have many features, I think that's how my road has been.
‐‐ Juan Felipe Herrera

Perhaps looking out through big baby eyes - if we could - would not be as revelatory experience as many imagine. We might see a world inhabited by objects and people, a world infused with causation, agency, and morality - a world that would surprise us not by its freshness but by its familiarity.
‐‐ Paul Bloom

Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.
‐‐ George Crumb

Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.
‐‐ Ingrid Newkirk

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
‐‐ Iris Murdoch

Perhaps misguidedly, I always admire the people who are so polished.
‐‐ Rosamund Pike

Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel.
‐‐ Rose Tremain

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.
‐‐ Peter Lewis Allen

Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

Perhaps more than ever before, there is that aggressive secularism and there are those who would indeed try to destroy our Christian heritage and culture and take God from the public square. Religion must not be taken from the public square.
‐‐ Keith O'Brien

Perhaps most important for nomads was the belief in the symbiosis that existed between wolf and humans on the steppe. Wolves were an integral part of keeping the balance of nature, ensuring that plagues of rabbits and rodents didn't break out, which in turn protected the all-important pasture for the nomads' herds.
‐‐ Tim Cope

Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations.
‐‐ David R. Brower