Perhaps The Quotes

#1. It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.

John Maynard Keynes

#2. 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

#3. The use of force is easy to rationalize in terms of basic economics. 'We should make them PAY for what they've done!' It's just the law of demand: raise the price of crossing us, and fewer people will cross us. Make the price another Hiroshima, and perhaps the quantity demanded will fall to zero.

Bryan Caplan

#4. The reality cuts across our minds like a wound whose edges crave to heal, but cannot. Thus, one of the great sins, perhaps the great sin, is to say: It will heal; it has healed; there is no wound. There is nothing more important than this wound.

Whittaker Chambers

#5. We have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control.

Thomas Szasz

#6. When there was nothing left to gain, nothing more to lose, when one was face-to-face with the moment of greatest despair, to speak to God in love and thanks, rather than to curse Him and one's fate, was the ultimate choice of any human creature, and perhaps the ultimate expression of one's humanity.

Naomi Ragen

#7. A photographic close-up is perhaps the purest form of portraiture, creating a confrontation between the viewer and the subject that daily interaction makes impossible, or at least impolite.

Martin Schoeller

#8. This is perhaps the greatest moral challenge Jesus left us: We all do pretty well in love when the persons we are loving are warm and gracious, but can we be gracious and mellow in the face of bitterness, jealousy, hatred, withdrawal? That's the litmus test of love.

Ronald Rolheiser

#9. What, then, of the liberated slaves and Indians? The saddest part of the story and perhaps the most revealing is that no one bothered to say. None of the accounts either of Drake's voyage or of the Roanoke colony mentions what became of them.

Edmund S. Morgan

#10. I was, in the 1960s, in a marriage. To use the word 'bad' would be perhaps the understatement of the year. It was dreadful.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#11. Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.

Grayson Perry

#13. Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell

#14. I have a special feeling for Blue Hills CC, where I won perhaps the most important tournament of my life when I was 14 - the Kansas City Match Play Championship. It gave me a dream of becoming a professional golfer.

Tom Watson

#15. We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#16. The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of the Capitol where some of the very meanest people on earth spend their days cleaning democracy like a fish.

Matt Taibbi

#17. Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike.

Theodore Dalrymple

#18. If the Koran is the soul of Islam, then perhaps the institution of the Muslim family might be described as its body.

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

#19. Hangeul is perhaps the most scientific system of writing in general use in any country.

Edwin O. Reischauer

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

Conrad Black

#21. So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.

Justin Cronin

#22. Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.

Hannah Arendt

#23. Perhaps the One knows
that if I travel without anything else to rely on, I'll learn to rely more
deeply on Him. (Susan Mitchell in THE DELIVERER)

Sharon Hinck

#24. Nothing is bleaker than the future, except perhaps the past.

Arthur Golden

#25. Perhaps the single most important point for parents to follow is the importance of giving goals to a child. And the most important goal is that of growing up to be an adult.

L. Ron Hubbard

#26. Perhaps the best-known Old Testament example of perseverance is the story of Job.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#27. Perhaps the greatest justice issue of all is intergenerational theft. The Eighth Commandment says "Thou shall not steal," but every day we live unsustainably we steal from our children and their children.

Fred Small

#28. The sound of progress is perhaps the sound of plummeting hypotheses.

Peter Haggett

#29. Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and entertaining to consider that at least once in the world's history those words might have been said with complete conviction, and that was on the eve of the Resurrection.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#30. Perhaps the universe is a big fat consciousness and the matter is just an illusion.

Erol Ozan

#31. Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

Sarah Hall

#32. Improving the quality of life for people of this country is perhaps the most important duty of Government

John Prescott

#33. There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.

Seth Lloyd

#34. Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.

Susan Estrich

#35. Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#36. Taxation is not a technical matter. It is preeminently a political and philosophical issue, perhaps the most important of all political issues.

Thomas Piketty

#37. Perhaps the funniest example is that of the Rev. Milton Barfoot, who said to Dan's brother, in apparently honest bafflement, "But, isn't Dan afraid of hell?" No, Reverend, Dan doesn't believe in hell anymore, that's one of the things about being an atheist, you see.

Dan Barker

#38. Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts ... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Steinbeck

#39. Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment to the world, it is still of some concern to the author.

Herman Melville

#40. We continue to love in spite of the pain, tears & heartbreak. Perhaps the pain makes us stronger, the tear makes us braver & the heartbreak makes us wiser.

Jeanette

#41. Nurturing a child's sense of personal worth and therefore hope and dreams for a wonderful future is perhaps the most important responsibility of every grownup in a child's life.

Wess Stafford

#42. Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps; the need to take risks; and the chance to be number one.

George A. Sheehan

#43. Perhaps the spirit of the Everglades was most evident in the unseen, the hidden, the implied.

T. J. MacGregor

#44. Perhaps the gods will surprise us and it will be neither."
"A true tragedy."
"Of epic proportions."
"Two longstanding rivals."
"And only one robe to bear."
"Who will win?" Darren's tone was wry. "The handsome prince?"
I grinned. "Or his valiant betrothed?

Rachel E. Carter

#45. Perhaps the measure of the best art is that it does not excite envy.

Norman Mailer

#46. Sometimes you come to realize you understand something but you can't explain it to anyone, not even yourself. This is perhaps the most sacred kind of understanding.

James Rozoff

#47. Perhaps the greatest lesson was also the simplest: Cherish and take care of what you value. Happiness is fragile. Appreciate every moment and do everything you can to protect it. The rest of life, in a sense, is background noise.

Harlan Coben

#48. To fight is to face death once more, perhaps the total annihilation of their kind. But to run ... is that not also a kind of annihilation?

Nalini Singh

#49. The prediction of the future is not distinguished from an evaluation of current evidence - prediction matches evaluation. This is perhaps the best evidence we have for the role of substitution.

Daniel Kahneman

#50. Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.

Charles A. Reich

#51. A spell perhaps? The prince wrinkled his face as though it physically hurt him to think and ask questions.

Liz DeJesus

#52. Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.

Cornelia Funke

#53. So perhaps the real secret to style is filling yourself to the absolute brim with engagement. Loving not wisely, but too well and all that.

Tim Gunn

#54. Perhaps the experience can give my writing a new dimension. Being actively engaged in the system which I criticize will be an interesting irony in itself.

John Kennedy Toole

#55. This is perhaps the most important book on evolutionary genetics ever written

Ronald Fisher

#56. I have waited for this day, and grief faded with time.
Or did it? Perhaps grief never leaves us but is merely drowned out by a flood of life overwhelming it. Perhaps the wound that bled once is bleeding still, and I did not notice it until now.

Claire North

#57. Where did you go?" "Around." "The weather was good?" "Yeah." "It didn't rain?" "Nope." "That's good." "Yeah." Talking like this is like throwing small, round stones nothing can be built from them, except perhaps the cairn of a lost conversation.

David Levithan

#58. Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

Hannah Arendt

#59. Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Edgar Allan Poe

#60. Perhaps the best god would be like a woman, because only women really knew how to forgive.

Rudolfo Anaya

#61. Perhaps the people we think we know best are the ones who surprise us most.

Firoozeh Dumas

#62. You never forget. It must be somewhere inside you. Even if the brain has forgotten, perhaps the teeth remember. Or the fingers.

Neil Gaiman

#63. [Heisenberg's seminal 1925 paper initiating quantum mechanics marked] one of the great jumps - perhaps the greatest - in the development of twentieth century physics.

Abraham Pais

#64. Perhaps the greatest psychological, spiritual, and medical need that all people have is the need for hope.

Billy Graham

#65. Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.

C.S. Lewis

#66. I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.

Don Bluth

#67. In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.

Charles Krauthammer

#68. Perhaps the most important ingredient in my work ... is my brain - particularly the right brain ... the free spontaneous side, and the left brain, which is careful and methodical.

Brian Johnson

#69. All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it

James Russell Lowell

#70. The longer I lived in China, the more I sensed that the Chinese people have outpaced the political system that nurtured their rise. The Party has unleashed the greatest expansion of human potential in world history - and spawned, perhaps, the greatest threat to its own survival.

Evan Osnos

#71. Thus we work not in the light of public opinion but in the secrecy of the chamber; and perhaps the best of us are apt at times to forget the delicacies and sincerities which under these conditions are essential to harmony and honour.

Clifford Allbutt

#72. Well, perhaps the greatest achievement, and we didn't know it at the time, was we held an Earth Day in 1970, and out of that Earth Day a lot of students got involved in saving the environment, or trying to.

Pete McCloskey

#73. The Clintons are perhaps the most politically sophisticated public figures of their generation. They know how things work in the corridors of power and around the world; they know that foreign governments are trying to

Peter Schweizer

#74. Perhaps the most important attitude for cultivating good fortune is a strong sense of perseverance. Many of the people in this book faced considerable constraints in finding the Element and managed to do it through sheer, dogged determination. None more so than Brad Zdanivsky.

Ken Robinson

#75. Breath is perhaps the first thing we have in life. It's how we measure the starting of life and it's how we measure the ending of life.

Paul Harvey

#76. Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton gives us our vision of social eminence today are content to entrust their faces to Andy Warhol's mingily cosmetic Polaroidising, but one would bet they would rather go to Sargent.

Robert Hughes

#77. Perhaps the Creator of this strange place knows us better than we know ourselves. Perhaps humanity was meant to eternally ponder the purpose and importance of our own existence. If we were assured of either, we'd be intolerable creatures.

Tiffany Madison

#78. I am not (yet) facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will then become urgent.

Alfred Schnittke

#79. Drinking beer with friends is perhaps the most underestimated of all Reformation insights and essential to ongoing reform; and wasting time with a choice friend or two on a regular basis might be the best investment of time you ever make.

Carl R. Trueman

#80. Meditation is perhaps the master key for all our problems.

Rajneesh

#81. 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

#82. Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry

Sigmund Freud

#83. Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#84. Or do you think perhaps the mountain has a memory?

Robert Seethaler

#85. Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to demand-free and asking but his company.

Milan Kundera

#86. Caring for our seniors is perhaps the greatest responsibility we have. Those who walked before us have given so much and made possible the life we all enjoy.

John Hoeven

#87. How we view ourselves and define ourselves is perhaps the most essential paradigm we have as human beings. It determines all of our actions and reactions.

David Clark

#88. There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.

Tullian Tchividjian

#89. In the parlance of economics, Julien has said to Pari that if she cut off the supply of attention, perhaps the demands for it would cease as well.

Khaled Hosseini

#90. There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.

Carson McCullers

#91. My greatest affliction ... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights.

Tennessee Williams

#92. The strangest thing of all for Milly was perhaps the uplifted assurance and indifference with which she could simply give back the particular bland stare that appeared in such cases to mark civilisation at its highest. It

Henry James

#93. Guardian angels are perhaps the most popular kind, probably because we all know how fragile life can be. We desperately need protection from unexpected circumstances and unseen dangers. Just the thought of good angels hovering around us gives people a feeling of safety!

Gary Kinnaman

#94. Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the vice-president, though too careful to get himself shot.

William Gibson

#95. The most spectacular UFO incident in Indonesia occurred when during the height of President Sukarno's confrontation against Malaysia, UFOs penetrated a well-defended area in Java for two weeks at a stretch, and each time were welcomed with perhaps the heaviest anti-aircraft barrage in history.

Cael Sanderson

#96. Of all the objections which have been framed against the federal Constitution, this is perhaps the most extraordinary. Whilst the objection itself is levelled against a pretended oligarchy, the principle of it strikes at the very root of republican government.

James Madison

#97. And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?

Umberto Eco

#98. Peter Pan is perhaps the most important thing, to me, that I have ever done in theater.

Mary Martin

#99. Perhaps the worst software technology of all time was the use of physical lines of code [for metrics]. Continued use of this approach, in the author's opinion, should be considered professional malpractice.

Capers Jones

#100. Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.

George Santayana