Perhaps You Quotes

#1. The world has been your battlefield. Everywhere you go, the blood of brothers and sons screams out against you. Perhaps you cannot yet hear it, because this soil is not your own. But you will ... you will.

Vladimir Makarov

#2. In summer, when the days are long, Perhaps you'll understand the song: In Autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down.

Lewis Carroll

#3. Perhaps you have seen me. I know well, my purpose was merely that of a symbol, 'equals', 'times' ... ; but what is said, for all that, was identity-less: a kind of live geometry.

Albert Goldbarth

#4. Perhaps you have visited my grave and flowers left, but did you hear me cry out to you!

Nancy B. Brewer

#5. We are still at the beginning of an unimaginable shift in how we live. Let's give ourselves a break. If you have a problem with technology, perhaps you're not addicted, just cyber maladapted. And the good news: There are things you can do about that.

Mary Aiken

#6. If you can't be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can.

Seth Godin

#7. (...) Where are you trying to go?"
Harry hesitated. "I'm not really sure," he said.
"Then perhaps you are already there.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#8. Perhaps you should spend less time despising the game and more time building the patients necessary to win.

Renee Ahdieh

#9. You are quite beautiful, child. Perhaps you should beware of Perrin. I never see him but in the company of beautiful girls. Faile gave Perrin a flat, considering look, then tried to gloss it over quickly.

Robert Jordan

#10. You evaded my question." "Then perhaps you had better assume that I intended to evade it.

Robert A. Heinlein

#11. -'Perhaps you'd better watch your back, stupid glowy golden faerie man whore.'
-'That didn't make any sense.'
-'Good. Now maybe I can join your club.

Kiersten White

#12. When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.

Gary Zukav

#13. I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know
or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.

H.P. Lovecraft

#14. My experience of singing, as an actor, was that there's a different creative feeling of freedom. The acting thing is a bit more defined and cerebral. I can see why people would want to cross over. If you have so much freedom on stage then perhaps you want to be confined a bit, and vice versa.

Orlando Bloom

#15. The others have made governments of this earth
keep the secret of their existence.
I would ... and perhaps you should.
If you wanna tell world about the secret, they will silence you.
If you don't give shit about the secret, then you just save their expenses.

Toba Beta

#16. Perhaps you should consider your difficulty in getting past Wendlyn's naval defences to be a sign that you should stop playing at being a god."
"Playing?" The King smiled, his crooked teeth glowing yellow in the firelight. "I am not playing. And this is not a game.

Sarah J. Maas

#17. People crave encouragement, and sometimes the greatest encouragement is the writing of words that endure. Perhaps you can pen a note of affirmation and approval to someone today.

David Jeremiah

#18. Perhaps you were right after all, my dear Nicolaus; perhaps there is but one god. But if that is true, you have misnamed him. He is Accident, and his priest is man, and that priest's only victim must be at last himself, his poor divided self.

John Edward Williams

#19. Perhaps you knew for sure when you loved someone, but then she'd never loved anyone yet, and perhaps she would have to accept that she never would.

Harry Mulisch

#20. Night, and the moon a blur above
I wonder where the world hides you,
and if perhaps you still love me

John Geddes

#21. Morrigan "Don't worry I'm following my instincts."
Birkita "Perhaps you could find a way to prudently follow your instincts"
Morrigan "I'm eighteen, nothing I do is prudent

P.C. Cast

#22. Next morning get up early and go to the Taj Mahal. Perhaps you've heard of it, big white building named after that Indian restaurant on the Lothian Road.

David Nicholls

#23. My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog. But I have not told you the type of dog which I have. Perhaps you even picture Toto, from 'The Wizard of Oz.' But I warn you, my dog is always with me ... WOOF!

Jack Nance

#24. Keep trying until you find Mr.Right. Perhaps you have to think it through before you even look for Mr. Maybe.

Mark Mason

#25. Why do you demand of me a heroism that perhaps you have not either? It is despotism; it is tyranny. If I ruin anyone, it is only myself ... I am not committing a murder. Why do you look at me like that? Why are you so pale? Rodya, darling, what's the matter?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#26. Perhaps you have a lumpy ass because you are perserving your fat cells with diet soda

Rory Freedman

#27. Perhaps," you will add, grinning, "those who have never been slapped will also not understand" - thereby politely hinting that I, too, may have experienced a slap in my life, and am therefore speaking as a connoisseur.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#28. You're surrounded by other people all the time. And you have to take responsibility if you're the eldest or one of the older siblings, and you're constantly communicating in a way that perhaps you aren't if you're in a smaller family.

Harry West

#29. Still, I take your point. I have a deal to learn about being a dwarf. Perhaps you will be good enough to teach me, in between the jousting and the pig-riding.

George R R Martin

#30. You do something you're really quite proud of, and the public doesn't like it. Then you do something that perhaps you're not at all happy with and the public loves it. And that's the moment of truth, because it's the audience that's the final judge.

Les Dawson

#31. Perhaps you're not crazy, but you're very creative.

Ellen Sussman

#32. What is enlightenment, anyway? I don't know if I can really put it into words, perhaps you can. I can't.

Frederick Lenz

#33. Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. People with passion look for ways to make things happen.

Seth Godin

#34. Perhaps you think you see a certain contradiction here? In that case, a word in your ear. Study your wife closely, for the next four-and-twenty hours. If your good lady doesn't exhibit something in the shape of a contradiction in that time, Heaven help you!
you have married a monster.

Wilkie Collins

#35. I think it's all that's holding me together," Kade said. "Then perhaps you should fall apart," Ananda replied.

Ramez Naam

#36. Why now? Why not? Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong. Perhaps you will die before the year is out. But remember this: to have may be taken from you, to have had never. Far better to have tasted love before dying, than to die alone.

David Gemmell

#37. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

Dale Carnegie

#38. Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a second
perhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them to the relaxed brain is like writing on water; there is every chance that on the morrow there will be no slightest trace left of any happening.

Antonin Sertillanges

#39. You are prettier than I." She put more pressure on his arm. "Perhaps you could offer yourself as whore instead.

Kiersten White

#40. Estragon: They're too big
Vladimir: Perhaps you'll have socks some day

Samuel Beckett

#41. Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.

Robert Farrar Capon

#42. Perhaps you and I aren't meant to be together in this lifetime. Maybe we're suppose to wait for eternity.

Denise Grover Swank

#43. That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.

Kate DiCamillo

#44. Okay. There it is. I dressed up. As an owl. And fought crime. Perhaps you begin to see why I half expect this summary of my career to raise more laughs than poor cuckolded Moe Vernon with his foam teats and his Wagner could ever hoped to have done.

Alan Moore

#45. We cannot expect you to be with us all the time, but perhaps you could be good enough to keep in touch now and again.

Thomas Beecham

#46. I'm very critical of crime novels that use gratuitous violence to shock readers when it isn't necessary. If that's all you have to offer as a writer, perhaps you're in the wrong job.

Michael Robotham

#47. If you been feeling or acting crazy, think about it perhaps you are.

Victoria Addino

#48. Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.

Victoria Osteen

#49. If a small town doesn't have a laundromat, and if you open one up, you can be pretty confident you'll have customers. If your laundromat is unique in any way, then perhaps you can scale it.

James Altucher

#50. Now that your speech impediment has been rectified, perhaps you might say something. It would be best if it were humorous. I enjoy a good jest.'

'You are dreadfully rude,' I said to him.

He sighed. 'That wasn't the slightest bit funny.

Danielle L. Jensen

#51. Perhaps you're not the next Buddha. Perhaps you're not the Maitreya. Perhaps that's not your job in this incarnation. Perhaps you have to enjoy life and learn about life through whatever way that you find yourself going.

Frederick Lenz

#52. Scarlett, when you are forty-five, perhaps you will know what I'm talking about and then perhaps you, too, will be tired of imitation gentry and shoddy manners and cheap emotions. But I doubt it. I think you'll always be more attracted by glister than by gold.

Margaret Mitchell

#53. Why do I have the compulsion to caution you strenuously against going up those stairs, Windham? Perhaps you'll be swarmed by bats or set upon by little ghoulies with crossbows." "Oh, for God's sake, what could be hiding in an empty old carriage house?" ***

Grace Burrowes

#54. Perhaps you three could continue this conversation when the ship is not under attack? Mr.Kadam said.

Colleen Houck

#55. Perhaps you will ask whether I can raise these three millions without difficulty. Well, nearly all my capital is invested in land, but I have some money out at interest and I can borrow without any trouble.

Pliny The Younger

#56. You killed a tree?"
"It tried to kill me first."
"Perhaps you should tell me exactly what happened to you, Princess.

Lesley Livingston

#57. Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.

Leon Kass

#58. Evil is loose in the world. I have to go." "I don't believe in evil. Mistakes, yes. Not evil." "Then perhaps you are afraid to believe it exists. It exists wherever men are. It

Brian W. Aldiss

#59. When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like.

Hilary Mantel

#60. Perhaps you've only grown up when you can bear not being understood.

Marian Gold

#61. Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle,
Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other.
Thirty years now I have labored
To dredge the silt from your throat.
I am none the wiser.

Sylvia Plath

#62. I was hoping that perhaps I could roll with you ... "
"You cannot roll with me," said the Big O, "but perhaps you can roll by yourself.

Shel Silverstein

#63. Perhaps you're a slave to your own idea of yourself.

D.H. Lawrence

#64. We've never needed one before!' 'I think perhaps you have needed one, you just haven't used one,

Terry Pratchett

#65. A smile becomes you or perhaps you become you when you smile.

Margi Preus

#66. Ricewind had always relied on running away. But somerimes, perhaps, you had to stand and fight, if only because there was nowhere left to run.

Terry Pratchett

#67. On suicide:
Those are vanities, child. They cause immeasurable suffering in this life and all future lives. Who knows, perhaps you have been given this harsh portion because of misdeeds in some past life.

John Speed

#68. My lady, don't you think you might be over-extending yourself? You've decided to confront the gyorn, liberate the court women from masculine oppression, save Arelon's economy, and feed Elantris. Perhaps you should just let this man's subterfuge go unexplored.

Brandon Sanderson

#69. If you are a writer and you are in Rome you will have a specific connection to it, then perhaps you will go to Sweden and you will have a different connection and it will be a very different experience.

Graciela Iturbide

#70. Trying to build a spaceship by making an aeroplane fly faster and higher is like trying to build an aeroplane by making locomotives faster and lighter - with a lot of effort, perhaps you could get something that more or less works, but it really isn't the right way to proceed.

Henry Spencer

#71. I know it to be the established custom of your sex to reject a man on the first application, and perhaps you have even now said as much to encourage my suit as would be consistent with the true delicacy of the female character.

Jane Austen

#72. Perhaps you should put your head down. I knew this was the thing to do, although I've never fainted and I don't intend to.

Franny Billingsley

#73. I promise they are not dull, for I am not one inclined to sit through pages of nonsense and bloated speech, though perhaps you enjoy works and authors who think very highly of themselves.

Sarah J. Maas

#74. Or, perhaps you thought I might ape your blessed Kannan, stealing ghee and curds from the homes of the Gopis, getting beaten up with churners and - " Azhwarkkadiyaan

Kalki

#75. And why not?" "You know why! This is a bad idea." "Perhaps I like a challenge." "Perhaps you're a glutton for punishment!" "Perhaps I am in love.

Karen Chance

#76. Luna has told me all about you, young lady,' said Xenophilius, 'you are, I gather, not unintelligent, but painfully limited. Narrow. Close-minded.' 'Perhaps you ought to try on the hat, Hermione,' said Ron, nodding towards the ludicrous headdress. His voice shook with the strain of not laughing.

J.K. Rowling

#77. There is a big deposit of sympathy in the bank of love, but don't draw out little sums every hour or so - so that by and by, when perhaps you need it badly, it is all drawn out and you yourself don't know how or on what it was spent.

Emily Post

#78. Perhaps you confuse virtue and convention, gentlemen. Conventionality is not morality, and self-righteousness is not religion.

Juliet Gael

#79. A birth is a death. Everything you treasure, and believe in, and love, and relate to is destroyed for you when you leave the womb. And you are launched into another modality, a modality that perhaps you would not have chosen but that you cannot do anything about.

Terence McKenna

#80. Perhaps you know that you are the King of England; but why do you care?

G.K. Chesterton

#81. Perhaps one day, you'll become a man and sail the oceans too. Perhaps you'll find buried treasure and discover new lands of your own. The world lays waiting for your adventures too and we can only dream of what they may be.

Maxwell Grantly

#82. Remember Who it is that has placed you in your present position; perhaps you have no home, perhaps you have experienced a reverse of fortune; no matter what! It is God who has willed it so, therefore look to Him for guidance and protection. - HINTS TO GOVERNESSES, BY ONE OF THEMSELVES, 1856

Julie Klassen

#83. I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.

Edward Young

#84. Success for me is simply empowerment to realize your humanity and then perhaps you achieve contentment. Wealth, power and fame are trappings rather than indicators of success.

Joseph V. Angeles

#85. If you are having an affair, it could save your relationship. If you are not having an affair, and your relationship is rocky, then perhaps you should.

Chloe Thurlow

#86. A great cook is made from having a great sense of hospitality and trying to make people happy. Then there's natural talent. Perhaps you have a feel for ingredients, the pots, the pans and stoves, that type of thing.

Paul Rankin

#87. To believe, perhaps you had to cease looking for explanations and instead hold the little thing in your hands as long as your were able before it slipped like water between your fingers.

Eowyn Ivey

#88. It's easy to be so caught up with ministry that we neglect times of solitude, individual worship, and prayer. Perhaps you need to redesign your schedule to find time for earnest prayer.

Anonymous

#89. There are ledgers. Those I kill. Those I reward."
"There are legends. You used to be one."
"I am a legend."
"Dani's a legend. Not you."
"This Dani appears to matter to you."
"Always."
"Perhaps you had a funny way of showing it.

Karen Marie Moning

#90. If you have suffered more than your fair share of difficulties in life, perhaps you are being prepared to serve some greater purpose that will require you to be equipped with the wisdom you have acquired through your trials.

Robin S. Sharma

#91. I'll come back," I said earnestly, through the soft, intrusive darkness.
"Perhaps you will"- I felt rather than saw her smile. "But even if you don't, you're here, like my father. So I won't be lonesome.

Willa Carther

#92. There's some comfort in seeing things go on; birds keep singing, buses keep running. But if you want those things to continue, perhaps you have to accept that the other kinds of things, unhappier, even horrific ones, will continue too. And that's harder.

Ashley Hay

#93. Perhaps you should bite me", Bobby Pendragon.

D.J. MacHale

#94. If you daren't enter the forest, or cannot find it, then perhaps you might find one tree, or a place where a tree could be, and just stop for a quiet moment to see what happens.

Viggo Mortensen

#95. A word must become a friend or you will not understand it. Perhaps you do well to be cool and detached when you are seeking information, but I remind you of the wife who complained, 'When I ask John if he loves me, he thinks I am asking for information'.

Edward Coke

#96. Prot: I'm not tired.
Brewer: I am.
Prot: Perhaps you're getting too much sleep. All your beings seem to sleep a lot. Is that because it's so awful to be awake?

Gene Brewer

#97. When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#98. Shakespeare never has six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.

Samuel Johnson

#99. Perhaps you expected to feel great as soon as you escaped your abuser, and maybe you did feel a great sense of relief for a while. However, as time has passed, you may be dismayed by the extent of your emotional pain.

Caroline Abbott

#100. I'm a writer. These people are American nomads, forever on the move, trying to feed themselves and their families. I'm thinking about writing a book about them. My name is John Steinbeck. Perhaps you've heard of me." After

Homer Hickam