According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.
You have students in America, in Britain, who do not want to be engineers. Perhaps it is the workload, I studied engineering, and I know what a grind it is.
The best entrepreneurs I've ever met are all good communicators. It's perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.
Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran.
Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability.
Now that I've moved to Mumbai, I should perhaps get a horse. It'll be a nice escape from my everyday life.
I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.
Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
We have to entertain the supporters. It's not only about defending and 'don't concede.' Perhaps most managers focus on defence.
I think when you're coping with grimness perhaps you do get sillier and more escapist in what you want to see at the theatre.
With the exception of China, and perhaps Turkey, no country in the world matters as much to the United States as Mexico.
When we get into the spirit world, and the veil is withdrawn, we shall then perhaps understand the whys and wherefores.
Occasionally, there are programmes - like 'The Office' or 'Gavin and Stacey,' perhaps - where you get the feeling everybody's seen it.
I have thought of relocating, somewhere where I'd be more appreciated. California, perhaps. I could teach earthquake preparedness.
I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.
We are perhaps not far removed from the time when we shall be able to submit the bulk of chemical phenomena to calculation.
Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.
Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast.
I had great faith that perhaps this man Obama would do something, but he is, we're all in the grip of big money.
I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.
All the hills and vales along
Earth is bursting into song,
And the singers are the chaps
Who are going to die perhaps.
Perhaps I can stay by the fire and mend your socks and scream if I hear any strange noises.
Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.
In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps.
Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.
Perhaps for the purposes of war racial differences had been buried, but certainly in no deep grave.
tears have a purpose. they are what we carry of the ocean, and perhaps we must become the sea, give ourselves to it, if we are to be transformed.
Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
Performing was always my thing, so when I act with another co-actor, perhaps that is why I never feel intimidated.
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a backdrop for the stories we must tell.
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government.
Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event. [a cynical but perhaps fair assessment]
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.
Of all the time-saving techniques ever developed, perhaps the most effective is the frequent use of the word no.
Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva.
Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.
Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.
Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.
Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never sounds as you dream it.
The kind of acting I love is when you watch and you discover what you think perhaps you weren't supposed to see: the chink in the armor.
Folks, Russia is perhaps the second most powerful nuclear country in the world. If you don't have dialogue, you have to be fools.
Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.
As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.
Perhaps an eccentric is just off centre - ex-centric. But that contradicts a belief of mine that we've got to be centrifugal.
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
Perhaps most intriguing of all is that it is possible to photograph what is impossible for the human eye to see - cumulative time.
Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where there is no money there is no change of any kind.
Perhaps, thought Talon, there was a path in between. A way to shed their ignorance without losing their souls.
A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.
I feel every person has a 'secret' dark side to them which perhaps they themselves are not aware of.
Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.
I’m bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden.
Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.
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