(491 quotes found)
“Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it”
William Penn
“I am following Nature without being able to grasp her...I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”
Claude Monet
“Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.”
Max Weber
“Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little”
Edna Ferber
“The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.”
David Mamet
“Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper”
Charles Peguy
“It is generally admitted that with woman the powers of intuition, of rapid perception and perhaps of imitation, are more strongly marked than in man: but some, at least, of these faculties are characteristic of the lower races, and therefore of a pas”
Charles Darwin
“Perhaps a body of work isn't necessary for a short story writer. If you do one story that survives in an anthology, that's enough.”
William Maxwell
“I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.”
Cyrano De Bergerac
“Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.”
Helene Cixous
