Perhaps Quotes (page 18)

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• people
• nearly
• sing

Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about. George Orwell

• people
• evening
• work

Perhaps some of my hearers this evening may have occasionally heard it stated of me that I am rather apt to contradict myself. I hope I am exceedingly apt to do so. I never met wth a question yet, of any importance, which did not need, for the right solution of it, at least one positive and one negative answer, like an equation of the second degree. Mostly, matters of any consequence are three-sided, or four-sided, or polygonal; and the trotting round a polygon is severe work for people any... John Ruskin

• guilty
• terminology
• been

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes. Winston Churchill

• powerful
• alone
• work

Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work. Corrie Ten Boom

• dream
• life
• different

Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour. Jeanette Winterson

• death
• end
• life death

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be? William Hazlitt

• giving
• youthful
• assumption

Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have more to give. Michael Cunningham

• war
• blue
• painting

Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns. Kurt Vonnegut

• him
• journey
• water

Perhaps he knew, there in the grass by the waters, that he had before him an immense journey. Loren Eiseley

• god
• blessed
• faith

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now. Aiden Wilson Tozer

• god
• learning
• she

Perhaps she would learn in time to permit both her daughter and her gods to govern their own affairs. Thornton Wilder

• home
• homesick
• homes

Perhaps the home I am homesick for is still there, after all. Michael Frayn

• more
• yes
• seemingly

Perhaps I would like a glass of whisky. Yes, that seems more likely. Douglas Adams

• nature
• to live
• confused

Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past. Dean Koontz

• hard times
• die
• simple

Perhaps when we die our names are takenfrom us by a divine magnet and are freeto flutter here and there within the bodies of birds. I'll be a simple crowwho can reach the top of Antelope Butte.(From: Hard Times) Jim Harrison