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All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. -- George Santayana
The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work. -- Julia Leigh
Of all the myriad ways we define love, there is perhaps none more honest and powerful than this: Great love is rooted in great partnership. -- Sarah MacLean
Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession. -- Jose Rizal
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. -- R. D. Laing
What does it take to be a great social chronicler? Perhaps one of the key attributes is an understanding of what it feels like to fall from grace. -- Tina Brown
I like the strategy of finding great entrepreneurs early, giving them some money, helping them a little - perhaps not as much as we would a regular core investment. -- Dan Levitan
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. -- Richard Dawkins
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. -- Edmund Burke
I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else. -- Tom Glazer
Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual. -- Maureen Forrester
People who aren't complicated in real life come through as pretty bland on the screen. Most great performers are not very happy and well adjusted. Perhaps that's the price they pay for being originals. -- George Cukor
Perhaps the virtue of coming from a place like Tasmania is that you had the great gift of knowing that you were not the centre of things, yet life was no less where you were. -- Richard Flanagan
The lives of most authors - even, or perhaps especially, the great ones - are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and cloistered composition. Globe-trotting Hemingways and brawling Christopher Marlowes are the exception, not the rule. -- Paul Di Filippo
Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants. -- Carol P. Christ
That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter. -- Edward Everett
The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them. -- C. Everett Koop
It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions. -- Goldwin Smith
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Perhaps a great love is never returned. -- Dag Hammarskjold
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I am going to seek a great perhaps. -- Francois Rabelais
I am going to seek the great Perhaps. -- Francois Rabelais
She left me enough to rediscover the Great Perhaps. -- John Green
Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest. -- Jonathan Franzen
We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry. -- Michael Pollan
Perhaps only silence and love do justice to a great work of art -- Dominique de Menil
I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone. -- Cyrano de Bergerac
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. -- Ezra Pound
Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one. -- Edward Dahlberg
...perhaps great sins start as simple weakness, and the consistent placing of self before others. -- Anne Perry
England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. -- George Orwell
His religion at best is an anxious wish,-like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps. -- John Keats
I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.. -- John Green
Much of good science and perhaps all of great science has its roots in fantasy. -- E. O. Wilson
Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration. -- Roger Zelazny
There's a great deal of love for one another on this club. Perhaps we're living in Camelot. -- Jerry Kramer
Perhaps I might have resisted a great temptation, but the little ones would have pulled me down -- Edith Wharton
They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises. -- Mary Wesley
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. -- Pearl S. Buck
My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail. -- John Kennedy Toole
Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness. -- Rose Macaulay
Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all. -- John Grogan
There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps only next to the Don -- Steve Waugh
I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation. -- John Green
Perhaps a great deed is belittled by an intention. And perhaps a small deed, by sincere intention, is made great -- Abdullah ibn Mubarak
The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player. -- Savielly Tartakower
The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark. -- Virginia Woolf
Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest -- William Friedkin
The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo. -- Alan Hollinghurst
A state in India will have more traders than perhaps a European nation. Trade is a great way to integrate people. -- Narendra Modi
In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly. -- Adam Smith
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There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter. -- Julia Child
The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted. -- Jonah Lehrer
Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people. -- James Salter
It's the bringing together of knowledge and wisdom that is a great part - perhaps the greatest part - of our life's journey. -- Roger Housden
Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop. -- Fran Lebowitz
I had great faith that perhaps this man Obama would do something, but he is, we're all in the grip of big money. -- Malachy McCourt
Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is? -- May Sarton
A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say. -- William Shenstone
Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
Perhaps her requirements were too great,Or her indulgence for human weakness too small,For her attempts to form a friendship had alwaysEnded in disappointment. -- A.L.O.E.
Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Music is also one of the great heart openers. Sometimes, you hear the lyrics of a song and you dance, laugh, smile, or perhaps even cry. -- Michael Franti
[Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect. -- Robert Burns
The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on earth, and perhaps his last chance to produce himself a rational species. -- John Culliney
History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a contagious disease. -- Jimmy Carter
Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other. -- Edwin Newman
Have you stopped seeing great things happen in your life? Perhaps you have stopped believing that God can work in a mighty way even in our generation. -- Luis Palau
Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The world has changed a great deal from when I began 50 years ago. I was very fortunate. There were a lot of opportunities that perhaps don't exist today. -- Richard Meier
A state of expectancy is a great assetl; a state of uncertainty-one moment thinking "perhaps" and the next moment thinking "I don't know"-will never get desired results. -- Ernest Holmes
Just as we bemoan the passing away of the Great Novel, a great novelist is likely to emerge, perhaps even from Denmark or Switzerland, to prove us wrong. -- J. M. Coetzee
If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be in great peril at that moment. -- Amy Carmichael
There is a great deal of quarrelling in the houses, and contending for power and authority; and the second wife is against the first wife, perhaps, in some instances. -- Heber C. Kimball
Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment; and perhaps just such a goal has served as maladjustment's weapon. -- Louis Kronenberger
To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical. -- Jules Verne
Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty is gone. -- Elizabeth Von Arnim
A teenage taste of beer aside, Mitt Romney does not consume alcohol. Which begs the question, will total abstention put his candidacy, perhaps even this great nation in jeopardy? -- Martin Bashir
The five of us walking confidently in a row, I'd never felt cooler. The Great Perhaps was upon us, and we were invincible. The plan may have had faults, but we did not. -- John Green

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