All Quotes

Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration.
‐‐ Michel Gondry

Perhaps my problem in marriage - and it is the problem of many women - was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
‐‐ Hedy Lamarr

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
‐‐ Bill Forsyth

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
‐‐ Eleanor Roosevelt

Perhaps no country in Latin America is more picturesque than Bolivia, and the most memorable Bolivian city may be Potosi.
‐‐ Nicholas Kristof

Perhaps no General Council has been more naturally fitted than the Vatican Council to produce a masterpiece of religious thought and literature. No assembly of men since the time of Christ has ever been so representative of Christian and national thought.
‐‐ Vincent McNabb

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
‐‐ Gene Fowler

Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.
‐‐ Edmund White

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
‐‐ Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
‐‐ Lady Bird Johnson

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
‐‐ Charles Dudley Warner

Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.
‐‐ Robert Smith

Perhaps not being very self-aware in the past masked depression. I think I was confused. I think I was immature. I think I probably was quite depressed.
‐‐ James Nesbitt

Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.
‐‐ Henri Nouwen

Perhaps Obama is often slow to nail controversies because he needs time to live inside them for a while in his head. It's unnerving for the rest of us, but even the haters, one feels, are made to think more deeply than they'd like before they return to the bickering and the games.
‐‐ Tina Brown

Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.
‐‐ George Crumb

Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.
‐‐ Maureen Forrester

Perhaps one day earthquakes, hurricanes and financial crashes will all be predictable. But we don't have to wait until then for seismology, meteorology and economics to become sciences; they already are.
‐‐ Eric Maskin

Perhaps one day I will go into space.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.
‐‐ Richard P. Feynman

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
‐‐ Robert Browning

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
‐‐ Calvin Coolidge

Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.
‐‐ Ingrid Newkirk

Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.
‐‐ Edward VIII

Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
‐‐ Albert J. Nock

Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.
‐‐ James Nesbitt

Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.
‐‐ Nick Clooney

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
‐‐ Lawrence Durrell

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.
‐‐ Nigel Farage

Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.
‐‐ James Cagney

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.
‐‐ Hermann Hesse

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public.
‐‐ Jurgen Habermas

Perhaps some of the appeal of the dangerous-but-yummy paranormal anti-hero lies in his scorn for societal expectations. Yes, women have come a long way, but there are still some cultural stigmas more associated with women than men.
‐‐ Jeaniene Frost

Perhaps summer's ephemeral nature is what inspires us to embrace the beach read. We tell ourselves that these twisted plots and wild characters are literary ice cream sundaes - extravagant treats that aren't as calorie-laden when we're wearing flip flops.
‐‐ Sarah MacLean

Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time.
‐‐ Tobias Wolff

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
‐‐ C. S. Forester

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
‐‐ Nadine Gordimer

Perhaps the best-known Old Testament example of perseverance is the story of Job.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do it alone, but a consortium of nations and space agencies could achieve it within 20 years.
‐‐ Paul Davies

Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man.
‐‐ Gyorgy Ligeti

Perhaps the biggest economic shift during Obama's presidency came from a piece of legislation that wasn't sold as such. On March 21, 2010, Congress passed the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. It was Obama's boldest piece of legislation and the one that will most likely define him.
‐‐ Andrew Ross Sorkin

Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.
‐‐ Ken Auletta

Perhaps the CDC should quit spending money on things like jazzercise, urban gardening, and massage therapy and direct that money to where it's appropriate in protecting the health of the American people.
‐‐ Cory Gardner

Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.
‐‐ Susan Estrich

Perhaps the earliest memories I have are of being a stubborn, determined child. Through the years my mother has told me that it was fortunate that I chose to do acceptable things, for if I had chosen otherwise, no one could have deflected me from my path.
‐‐ Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.
‐‐ Jose Marti