P Quotes
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“Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know.”
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed with the KGB officers that I was dealing with.”
“Perhaps my most important goal is to create a million millionaires.”
“Perhaps my number one rule is: Don't try to make a profit on a bad trade, just try to find the best place to get out.”
“Perhaps my own struggle against the negativity created by these so-called critics has enabled me to develop a more resilient, peaceful, inner strength which I, in turn, have attempted to communicate to others.”
“Perhaps my whisper was already born before my lips.”
“Perhaps myself the first, at some expense of popularity, to unfold the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me to become his apologist. Nor can I have any disposition to do it. I admit that his politics are tinctured with fanaticism, that he is too much in earnest in his democracy, that he has been a mischievous enemy to the principle measures of our past administration, that he is crafty & persevering in his objects, that he is not scrupulous about the means of success, nor very mindful of truth, and that he is a contemptible hypocrite.”
Source: Correspondence [contin.] 1795-1804; 1777; 1791. Letters of H.G. 1789. Address to public creditors. 1790. Vindication of funding system. 1791
“Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.”
“Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.”
“Perhaps never before in history has the artist been so certain that the more daring, iconoclastic, absurd, and inaccessible he is, the more he will be recognized, praised, spoiled, idolatrized. In some countries the result has even been an academicism in reverse, the academicism of the “avant-garde” - to such a point that any artistic experience that makes no concessions to this new conformism is in danger of being stifled or ignored.”
Source: Myth and Reality
“Perhaps never before or since have so many people taken the measure of economic prospects and found them so favorable as in the two days following the Thursday [24th October 1929] disaster.”
“Perhaps no American family-with the possible exception of the Adams family-has had a more vivid and powerful impact on the life of their times. But the Kennedy tale-the spiral compound of glory, achievement, degradation and almost mythical tragedy-exerts a fascination upon us that goes beyond their public achievements.”
“Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day. Rooted deeply in our Judeo-Christian heritage, the practice of offering thanksgiving underscores our unshakable belief in God as the foundation of our Nation and our firm reliance upon Him from Whom all blessings flow.”
“Perhaps no man can be a good judge of the comfort a woman feels in the society of one of her own sex.”
Source: Emma
“Perhaps no man is an island, but every man and woman is a nation unto herself. I actually had to look up the definition of "nation"; this is how awkward my relation is to this concept. And it is defined as, "a large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory." Perhaps if you replace "descent" with "dissent" the definition becomes more meaningful.”
“Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.”
“Perhaps no more beautiful passages have ever been written about the Savior's atonement and crucifixion than those written by Isaiah.”
“Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is.”
“Perhaps no one really knows us who does not know the way we laugh.”
Source: Lost Children Archive
“Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to monkeys to lemurs] - leading us insensibly from the crown and summit of the animal creation down to creatures, from which there is but a step, as it seems, to the lowest, smallest, and least intelligent of the placental Mammalia. It is as if nature herself had forseen the arrogance of man, and with Roman severity had provided that his intellect, by its very triumphs, should call into prominence the slaves, admonishing the conqueror that he is but dust.”
“Perhaps no other book has been denounced so vigorously by those who have never read it as has the Book of Mormon.”
“Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.”
“Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.”
“Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.”
“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.”
“Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.”
Source: Following the Equator:
“Perhaps no promise in life is more reassuring than that promise of divine assistance and spiritual guidance in times of need. It is a gift freely given from heaven, a gift that we need from our earliest youth through the very latest days of our lives.”
Source: That We Might Have Joy
“Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.”
Source: The Quotable Osler
“Perhaps no theoretical man can be equal to such a burden: to feel knowledge as power when one’s mind reshapes the world irrevocably, to see the light of truth as the agent of some dark majesty, is not grace but ordeal.”
“Perhaps no word exists in our terribly inadequate English language to name this abstract, emotional thing that is not forgiveness, is not forgetting, and also is both.”
Source: Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans
“Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.”
Source: The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner
“perhaps
none of this
made sense
perhaps
all of this
was evanescence”
“Perhaps not all spirits are meant for this world, but they pass through anyway and change for the better those which are.”
Source: Jane's Melody: A Novel
“Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.”
“Perhaps not consciously. But every interaction you have, every decision you make, all of that is subconsciously determined by who you want people to see you as. Or what you want to hide. Or how you want people to perceive others."
•pg.183-184 - Fabricio”
Source: When Villains Rise
“Perhaps not everything happens for a reason. That is, until you make it so; because for everything there is a season, which can, in fact, become beautiful.”
Source: Healology
“Perhaps not having experienced any tragedy is also a kind of tragedy because tragedies are one of the important ways to understand life at the highest level!”
“Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.”
Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance
“Perhaps not wanting to say goodbye is just another word for loving.”
Source: ARMENIA: A Walk To Remember
“Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do.”
Source: Daughter of the Blood: The Black Jewels Trilogy
“Perhaps not," said Will, who had ears like a bat's. "But I would make a radiant bride.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“Perhaps nothing in all my business has helped me more than faith in my fellow man. From the very first I felt confident that I could trust the great, friendly public. So I told it quite simply what I thought, what I felt, what I was trying to do. And the response was quick, sure, and immediate.”
“Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability.”
Source: Business By The Book: Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for the Workplace
“Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability. Too often those with authority are able (and willing) to surround themselves with people who support their decisions without question.”
Source: Business By The Book: Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for the Workplace
“Perhaps nothing is entirely true, not even this.”
Source: The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli
“Perhaps nothing is more magical then the book. Paper, glue and some words and you are taken away from where you sit, stand, dance, or lean.”
“Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness.”
“Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.”
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes
“Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.”
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes