(491 quotes found)
“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.”
Charles F. Kettering
“Perhaps nobody yet has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
Sylvia Plath
“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”
Christopher Morley
“Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.”
Douglas Adams
“The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.”
Clark Moustakas
“The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?”
Judith Hayes
“Perhaps Time's Definition of Coal is the Diamond.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.”
Claudia Lady Bird Johnson
“One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.”
Charles Horton Cooley
