#perhaps

If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century. ↗

— Jack Welch

#century #china #company #couple #dollars

The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the world. ↗

— John Hall Wheelock

#dullest #editor #exasperating #exciting #hardest

An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it. ↗

— Jack White

#american tradition #feels #head #hundreds #i

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#fair #good #good thing #life #most

A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#babies #baby #big #born #carrie

It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#complete #could #day #hundred #i

Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#complete #could #even #hundred #i

We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#attention #been #capture #drew #find

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#death #fear #large #me #never

As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore. ↗

— Edward Witten

#beyond #blocks #building #building blocks #equipment