Perhaps Quotes - page 2

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. (Pearl S. Buck)
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. View quote
Christopher Morley
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen. View quote
Robert Bresson
We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE. View quote
Alva Myrdal
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman. View quote
Israel Zangwill
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps. View quote
James Thurber
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. View quote
Graham Greene
If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music in which he hears, however measured, or far away. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you. (Tennessee Williams)
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect. View quote
George Boole
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved. View quote
John Desmond Bernal
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. View quote
Maya Angelou
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. View quote
Helen Hayes
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of. View quote
Ronald Fisher
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream. View quote
Iris Murdoch
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. (Ernest Hemingway)
Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses. View quote
Amy Tan
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. View quote
George Santayana
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. View quote
Gwendolyn Brooks
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. View quote
Oscar Wilde