#perhaps

Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar. ↗

— James Payn

#bus #cultivating #driven #driving #exceptional

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

#any #better #builder #cause #confidence

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#declare #deepest #degrees #despair #disappear

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#discern #every #finds #himself #instrument

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#childhood #days #favorite #fully #lived

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#essential #humanity #important #lies #moreover

After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#act #after #away #getting #joyce

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#acceptable #argument #doctrinaire #foolish #idea

I can tell you one of the most surprising ingredients I've ever found. Perhaps five years ago on a beach I saw this herb that looked exactly like chives. I put it in my mouth and started chewing and, surprise, it tasted exactly like coriander. ↗

— Rene Redzepi

#beach #chewing #ever #exactly #five

They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps that is merely because they feel themselves to be more unfortunate than us. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#because #brotherly #feel #human #me