Perhaps Quotes - page 23

We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress. (Mary Augusta Ward)
If Slumdog Millionaire projects India as a Third World, dirty-underbelly, developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let it be known that a murky underbelly exists and thrives even in the most developed nations. It's just that the Slumdog Millionaire idea authored by an Indian and conceived and cinematically put together by a Westerner, gets creative Golden Globe recognition. The other would perhaps not. View quote
Amitabh Bachchan
There are two things you need for a jolly good hymn. The first is a set of words that expresses the mood or sentiment of the worshipper. The second-and perhaps even more important-is a good tune ... with a simple popular melody. View quote
John Betjeman
The 50s face was angry, the 60s face was well-fed, the 70s face was foxy. Perhaps it was the right expression: there was a lot to be wary about. View quote
Keith Waterhouse
There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it. View quote
Colum McCann
There is something that happens to the mind in moments of terror. Perhaps we figure it's the last we'll ever have and we record it for the rest of our long journey. We take perfect snapshots, an album to despair over. We trim the edges and place them in plastic. We tuck the scrapbook away to take out in our ruined times. View quote
Colum McCann
Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools." View quote
Vincent Massey
For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy? View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Women, perhaps, even require a little hypocrisy. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
The virtue of women is perhaps a question of temperament. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
In farm country, the plover has only two real enemies: the gully and the drainage ditch. Perhaps we shall one day find that these are our enemies, too. (Aldo Leopold)
Our grandfathers were less well-housed, well-fed, well-clothed than we are. The strivings by which they bettered their lot are also those which deprived us of [passenger] pigeons. Perhaps we now grieve because we are not sure, in our hearts, that we have gained by the exchange. The gadgets of industry bring us more comforts than the pigeons did, but do they add as much to the glory of the spring? View quote
Aldo Leopold
Christina Stead has a Chinese say, "Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us”-or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it. View quote
Randall Jarrell
The intellectual's ... playfulness, in its various manifestations, is likely to seem to most men a perverse luxury; in the United States the play of the mind is perhaps the only form of play that is not looked upon with the most tender indulgence. His piety is likely to seem nettlesome, if not actually dangerous. And neither quality is considered to contribute very much to the practical business of life. View quote
Richard Hofstadter
A servant, indeed, one will be able perhaps to bind down by fear; nay, not even for him, for he will soon leave you. But the partner of one's life, the mother of one's children, the foundation of one's every joy, one ought never to chain down by fear and threats, but with love and good temper. For what sort of union is that, where the wife trembles at her husband? And what sort of pleasure will the husband have if he dwells with his wife as with a slave? Yea, even though you suffer everything on her account, do not scold her; for neither did Christ do this to the Church. View quote
John Chrysostom
Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children. View quote
Michael Morpurgo
With a little effort, we can help fat people help themselves. But first we have to make sure that "fat acceptance", perhaps the most alarming and irresponsible idea to come out of leftist victimhood and grievancean politics, is given the heart attack it deserves. View quote
Milo Yiannopoulos
It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other. View quote
Mario Puzo
Time away from thinking about something is as valuable - perhaps even more so - than directly thinking about it. View quote
Marc Guggenheim
for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right. View quote
Markus Zusak
At first, she could not talk. Perhaps it was the sudden bumpiness of love she felt for him. Or had she always loved him? (Markus Zusak)
In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know. View quote
Marsilio Ficino
Everyone lives bound by their own knowledge and awareness. They define that as reality; but knowledge and awareness are vage, and perhaps better called illusions. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran. View quote
Mosab Hassan Yousef
There are mysteries in Everlost. Some of them are wonderful, and others scary. They should all be explored, though- perhaps that's why we're here: to experience the good and the bad that Everlost has to offer. View quote
Neal Shusterman