All Quotes

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
‐‐ Friedrich August von Hayek

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

Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession.
‐‐ Jose Rizal

Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.
‐‐ Sandra Cisneros

Perhaps the greatest Maya mystery of all is the cause of the civilization's abrupt decline. The last dated stela erected at Tikal was put up in A.D. 869; the last anywhere in the Maya world, in 909.
‐‐ David Roberts

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.
‐‐ Ian Mcewan

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.
‐‐ Jack Carroll

Perhaps the loneliest time was during the Tata Tea issue in Assam. For some reason, everyone believed that we had conspired with the extremists, ULFA. People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth. Sometimes it is based on inadequate or wrong information.
‐‐ Ratan Tata

Perhaps the main stumbling block to a better, and more fruitful, theological relationship with Judaism and the Jewish people has been the tendency of many Christian theologians to see the Christ event as the end of history.
‐‐ David Novak

Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.
‐‐ Andrew Wiles

Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
‐‐ Langston Hughes

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
‐‐ Umberto Eco

Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of the president's role and not being solemn enough in my acts. A mistake for which I would like to apologise or explain myself and which I will not make again. Now, I know the job.
‐‐ Nicolas Sarkozy

Perhaps the more benign and poetic sense of God is established when we are babies in the moments of primal joy we might call 'the epiphanies of infancy' - the sensation of being blissfully held and feeling complete and at one with everything - yet having no words or no need to say it but instead to just assimilate the feeling.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

Perhaps the most damaging aspect of the Obamacare tech nightmare is how wholly predictable it all was. Anyone who has been involved in building the most rudimentary of web operations knows nothing ever works as it's supposed to. Even awesome Apple, mighty Microsoft, and gargantuan Google miss deadlines.
‐‐ Tina Brown

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
‐‐ George Eliot

Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico.
‐‐ Bruce Beresford

Perhaps the most effective way to describe the approach a brand must take is to think of themselves as social cartographers. By that I mean that brands must simultaneously inspire, engage and maintain a series of conversations taking place within certain cultural landscape specific to their business goal.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

Perhaps the most encouraging trend is that, through technology, people are realizing how much agency they actually have. Technology has revolutionized the way we eat, live, communicate, socialize, learn, and do. We see enormous potential to create lasting, positive change in the way the world works by doing what we are doing.
‐‐ Jeremy Heimans

Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
‐‐ Bruce Jackson

Perhaps the most important people that I should photograph are the people who don't have a voice.
‐‐ Platon

Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies.
‐‐ Patricia Marx

Perhaps the most powerful lesson other brands can learn from Nike is the need to act in accordance with the reality of the world we live in. In a mutually dependant, intimately connected global community facing several major crises, brands need to operate with an expanded definition of self-interest that includes the greater good.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

Perhaps the most significant thing George Lucas did in creating 'Star Wars' was to fictionalize the Tao - to spark a universe where we can talk about the Force in objective terms and show it in direct action.
‐‐ Matthew Stover

Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Perhaps the most telling witness against the claim of accurate history for the Bible comes when we read the earliest narrative of the crucifixion found in Mark's gospel and discover that it is not based on eyewitness testimony at all.
‐‐ John Shelby Spong

Perhaps the most useful lesson which has come out of the work on penicillin has been the demonstration that success in this field depends on the development and coordinated use of technical methods.
‐‐ Howard Florey

Perhaps the most versatile and useful plug-in in the collection is Mass Copy. It is certainly the one I use the most. Due to limitations in how plugins can interact with Finale, Mass Copy has a somewhat unusual user interface.
‐‐ Robert Patterson

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
‐‐ Olive Schreiner

Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well.
‐‐ Kathryn Bigelow

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
‐‐ George Santayana

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
‐‐ Albert J. Nock

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
‐‐ Dick Cavett

Perhaps the secret of living a holy life is to avoid every thing which will displease God and grieve the Spirit, and to be strictly attentive to the means of grace.
‐‐ Adoniram Judson

Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.
‐‐ Marc Andreessen

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
‐‐ Greg LeMond

Perhaps the single most important thing for a child is to be with a loving, supportive family. And all things being equal, any child of any race should be placed with any qualified parents without restriction or special conditions.
‐‐ John Ridley

Perhaps the single most robust fact across many surveys is that married people are happier than anyone else.
‐‐ Martin Seligman

Perhaps the spirit of adventure, be it mental or material adventure, is a factor so essential in human progress that no emphasis of it is undue.
‐‐ Archibald Hill

Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.
‐‐ Katherine Dunn

Perhaps the strongest signal of reengagement with Southeast Asia was the U.S.'s accession to the Southeast Asian Treaty of Amity and Cooperation.
‐‐ Benigno Aquino III

Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far.
‐‐ Joan D. Vinge

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
‐‐ E. O. Wilson

Perhaps the two greatest moments of my life were standing on the moon and being outside of the room when my granddaughter was born! We tend not to remember the worst.
‐‐ Eugene Cernan

Perhaps the virtue of coming from a place like Tasmania is that you had the great gift of knowing that you were not the centre of things, yet life was no less where you were.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
‐‐ Jean Baudrillard

Perhaps the writer I've read the most of is Haruki Murakami, the Japanese writer, but I wouldn't necessarily say he's a favourite. I read him because I find his work so intriguing, but I don't necessarily feel I would follow this writer to the ends of the earth.
‐‐ Shaun Tan

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
‐‐ Marcus Aurelius