P Quotes
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“Perhaps that’s why he became so interested in history, […] He felt that if you read everything and put the pieces all together the real truth would emerge. It would be, somehow, like carpentry. Everything would fit together just so, and you would see in the end something like ‘a perfect building called the past.”
Source: No Great Mischief: Adapted from the Novel by Alistair MacLeod
“Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.”
“Perhaps that was how it always was--we tended to focus upon the outward appearances of people and miss the true beauty of their character as a result.”
Source: Ensnared
“Perhaps that was it—it did not matter why, really—we had to get on without Heaven as best we could.”
Source: Ex-wife
“Perhaps that was the advantage to persistently messy hair--he managed to make it go with anything.”
Source: Oathbringer
“Perhaps that was the only time which we should ever, ever have together. Perhaps it was something which would never, never, never come again.”
Source: The Black Prince
“Perhaps that was the point; life, if you did it right, meant learning and changing. If you didn't, you died- or stopped growing - which amounted to more or less the same thing. So I would slide in and out of different roles until I discovered the one that fit me best. -Deuce, (183)”
Source: Outpost
“Perhaps that was what the sun subsisted on. Burning as fuel the willpower of those who lived beneath it.”
Source: Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“Perhaps that was what the war was really about. Twas an entire nation of runaways, America in 1861, and your place in society depended on what you had run from and when. Perhaps General McClellan was right that the war was not really about slavery. Perhaps it was a struggle between the dreams of men who would run no more.”
Source: Faded Coat of Blue
“Perhaps that wasn't the brightest parenting decision that I've made in the last ten years." -- (From TRADING MANNY, on letting my 7-year old son emulate Manny Ramirez)”
“Perhaps that's how I should think of them, Polly thought, the troupe and Miss Snelgrove and Trot. And Sir Godfrey. Not as lost to her, but as removed to this moment in time for safekeeping.”
“Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to:
Would you save my life? or would you take it?”
Source: Sula
“Perhaps that's what I feel, an outside and an inside and me in the middle, perhaps that's what I am, the thing that divides the world in two, on the one side the outside, on the other the inside, that can be as thin as foil, I'm neither one side nor the other, I'm in the middle, I'm the partition, I've two surfaces and no thickness, perhaps that's what I feel, myself vibrating, I'm the tympanum, on the one hand the mind, on the other the world, I don't belong to either.”
Source: The collected works of Samuel Beckett
“Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.”
Source: The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work
“Perhaps the ache of homesickness was a fair price to pay for having so many good people in her life.”
Source: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
“Perhaps the act of writing is necessary when nothing happens.”
“Perhaps the agnostic even prefers signs to reality. Perhaps he prefers this undecidable situation, since you can play with these floating signs and that is not possible with so-called 'objective' reality.
The move from the real to the sign opens up an enormous field of play and uncertainty.
Particularly where the reality of power is concerned.
For if there is, indeed,a risk of anaesthesia and manipulation by signs and images that is to power's advantage, there is the risk that power itself may find itself reduced merely to the signs of power.
This profusion of signs and of what is manifested does, moreover, effect a profound change in the symbolic relation to power.
That relation is based on the unilateral gift (of laws, institutions, work, security, etc.). It is not so much by violence and constraint, but only by this symbolic obligation that power exists. Now, from the point when all that it gives us is signs, our debt to it is infinitely less great. With power distributing nothing but signs to us, we merely give back signs in return, and our servitude is the lighter for it. Admittedly, the enjoyment of immaterial goods is not so great, but this also means we owe little in return and we respond to the airiness of signs with an equal indifference. We can deny power and set it aside by mere incredulity, simply responding to the signs of power with the signs of servitude. This is perhaps what is meant by 'weak thought' (pensiero debole).
With Virtual Reality, this process of disinvestment becomes even more radical, and we enter upon a phase of unbinding [deliaison], of quasi-total disobligation.”
Source: The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact
“Perhaps the answer is that it is necessary to slow down, finally giving up on economistic fanaticism and collectively rethink the true meaning of the word “wealth.” Wealth does not mean a person who owns a lot, but refers to someone who has enough time to enjoy what nature and human collaboration place within everyone’s reach. If the great majority of people could understand this basic notion, if they could be liberated from the competitive illusion that is impoverishing everyone’s life, the very foundations of capitalism, would start to crumble (p. 169).”
“Perhaps the anticipation of a thing is more fulfilling than its reality.”
Source: A Word so Fitly Spoken
“Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?”
“Perhaps the artist who seeks dignity above all in his 'historia', ought to represent very few figures; for as paucity of words imparts majesty to a prince, provided histhoughts and orders are understood, so the presence of only the strictly necessary numbers of bodies confers dignity on a picture.”
“Perhaps the attempt to achieve grace by identification with the animals was the most sensitive thing which was tried in the whole bloody history of religion .”
“Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return! whose poetry is too finely spun, whose philosophy is too and mystified for popular demand: perhaps we have experienced feeling which Mr. Wordsworth alludes to, in a poem worthy of simplicity and loneliness of the sentiment "Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure; Sighed to think I read a book Only read perhaps by me!”
“Perhaps the bands emerging nowadays don't have the right context around them to help them grow. We were born at the right moment where everything was happening. There was a great interest for rock en español and it was everywhere. The audience, labels and the media were all interested; everything was there. We wanted to present music that was very personal to us, and it continues being that way.”
“Perhaps the basic reason why every child must have an educatin in music is that music is a part of the fabric of our society. The intrinsic value of music for each individual is widely recognized in the many cultures that make up American life - indeed, every human culture uses music to carry forward its ideas and ideals.”
Source: Music Makes the Difference: Music, Brain Development, and Learning
“Perhaps the basic reason why every child must have an education in music is that music is a part of the fabric of our society. The intrinsic value of music for each individual is widely recognized in the many cultures that make up American life - indeed, every human culture uses music to carry forward its ideas and ideals.”
Source: Music Makes the Difference: Music, Brain Development, and Learning
“Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.”
“Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.”
Source: What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy
“Perhaps the best answer is not to tolerate differences, not even to accept them. But to celebrate them.”
Source: Openly Straight
“Perhaps the best argument...that the Big Bang supports theism is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists. At times this has led to scientific ideas...being advanced with a tenacity which so exceeds their intrinsic worth that one can only suspect the operation of psychological forces lying very much deeper than the usual academic desire of a theorist to support his or her theory.”
“Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.”
Source: East of Eden
“Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.”
“Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?”
“Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.”
“Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.”
Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections
“Perhaps the best god would be like a woman, because only women really knew how to forgive”
Source: Bless Me, Ultima: A Novel
“Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.”
Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a majority of the electorate in western democracies.”
Source: Democracy ancient and modern
“Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do it alone, but a consortium of nations and space agencies could achieve it within 20 years.”
“Perhaps the best place to begin with an integral approach to business is with.. oneself. In the Big Three of self, culture, and world, integral mastery starts with self. How do body and mind and spirit operate in me? How does that necessarily impact my role in the world of business? And how can I become more conscious of these already operating realities in myself and in others?”
“Perhaps the best place to forage was our lagoon, an oval of protected water, ringed by rocks and fed by a narrow channel that churned with the tide. You could spend your whole day harvesting there. Along the shore were wild onions and sea asparagus and the grassy stalks of sea plantains; under the beach rocks were tiny black crabs no bigger than my thumbnail. The boulders that lined the shores were packed with barnacles and mussels, and the seaweed came in infinite varieties. My favorite was bladderwrack, with its little balloons that popped in your mouth and left the smell of salt behind.”
Source: The Scent Keeper
“Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die.”
Source: Watermark: An Essay on Venice
“Perhaps the best reason for regarding mathematics as an art is not so much that it affords an outlet for creative activity as that it provides spiritual values. It puts man in touch with the highest aspirations and lofiest goals. It offers intellectual delight and the exultation of resolving the mysteries of the universe.”
Source: Mathematics for the Nonmathematician
“Perhaps the best reason to consider the hard sciences is that, well, one study suggests science, engineering, medicine, and dentistry graduates live longer than arts graduates (or law grads). So whatever money you make you can keep a bit longer.”
Source: Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it
“Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)
“Perhaps the best testimony to the effectiveness of the reforms of 1852 is the fact, that men of a slightly later generation, familiar with the working of the courts half a century after, find it difficult to believe that such abuses as are plainly described by the legislation of that year, should really have existed in the middle of the nineteenth century.”
Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919
“Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.”
“Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views.”
“Perhaps the best we can do is to work to uphold the human virtues and qualities we most value, even in the face of everyone’s cynicism, skepticism and distrust, including our own.”
Source: Re:
“Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man”