#perhaps

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry. ↗

— Erik Satie

#art #invented #modest #most #musician

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#been #carried #civil #considerable #founded

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#being #commercial #different #different kind #distract

At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's. ↗

— Alexander Woollcott

#better #else #good #mind #perhaps

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#book #example #job #meaning #meaning of

Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet. ↗

— King Edward VIII

#advice #chance #count #down #ever

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#brave #dragons #lives #once #only

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#answers #day #distant #even #into

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety. ↗

— John Schlesinger

#best #bit #control #could #face

I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will than become urgent. ↗

— Alfred Schnittke

#after #am #become #country #emigration