Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.
I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening at the right times.
Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life, and perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree.
The first and perhaps most important thing to realize about being happier in life is to stop trying to be so happy in life.
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Dance fascinates me, and it is perhaps the most enriching audio-visual realm for a musician. Film-making also fascinates me.
I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.
Perhaps an eccentric is just off centre - ex-centric. But that contradicts a belief of mine that we've got to be centrifugal.
They say that the older you get, the more conservative you become: perhaps that's the reason there are no Tories in Scotland.
Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.
There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.
I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.
Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life.
I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before.
Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
Ideas matter. The world matters. Our lives matter, and the choices we make as we navigate our lives perhaps matter most of all.
Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no.
In general, I feel like when I've associated with someone, the association has elevated me and perhaps lowered the other person.
My philosophy has been to take things day by day. When I talk about this philosophy, it makes people perhaps a little surprised.
We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
Hypocrisy, something Jesus railed against, has become perhaps the most prominent feature of the religious right in the Trump era.
I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.
After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.
I think absolute honesty may not be what we want. I mean, 'My goodness, you look ugly this morning.' Perhaps that's not necessary.
Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a sourer note.
If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
Dance is in the air, pirouettes, very difficult. Mime is on the floor, like Spanish dancing perhaps, and very often in slow motion.
A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.
To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.
The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.
We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.