Quote:- Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked into the consensus of his scientific community that it would be harder for him to accept an idea that transformed the meaning of everything he knew. Even if it were true.
Author:- Orson Scott Card
Category:- science
Quote:- Perhaps by now I'd come far enough that I had the guts to be afraid.
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Author:- Cheryl Strayed
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm need only to show up- wearing top hat and tails, of course.
Woman: An Intimate Geography
Author:- Natalie Angier
Category:- science
Quote:- Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
Giovanni's Room
Author:- James Baldwin
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Perhaps I should have done something like that to try to keep Howard. If I had a close friend, maybe this is the sort of thing she would have advised me to do. But I don’t have anyone in my life to advise me about things such as this, and I am just not the sort of woman who would make desperate changes to my appearance in an undignified attempt to keep my husband. If that’s all it would have taken to save my marriage, what kind of man would Howard have been all along? I didn’t want to risk finding out.
Author:- Katherine Weber
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- Perhaps I'm in a minority, feeling that the instability of my own country is partly the result of its support of an adolescent's ideal -- that people should be free to do whatever they want -- and its obsession with personal gratiication, whatever the cost. Lives without restraint are eventually ruinous, to those individuals and to the social and physical world around them.
Author:- Barry Lopez
Category:- science
Quote:- Perhaps in his loneliness he had acquired the silent conviction that he was 'the last', the one, the only. And, being the last, he ceased to be Benjamin, becoming Israel. And upon his heart had settled the history of five thousand years, no longer remote, but become as the history of his own lifetime. His "I" was the converse of the imperial "We.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Author:- Walter M. Miller Jr.
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-- disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
Eating Animals
Author:- Jonathan Safran Foer
Category:- science
Quote:- Perhaps it is worth nothing at all. How can I tell? he thought, with the heartsickness of a great timidity. Now that he had left it there, it seemed to him so hazardous, so vain, so foolish, to dream that he, a little lad with bare feet, who barely knew his letters, could do anything at which great painters, real artists, could ever deign to look. Yet he took heart as he went by the cathedral: the lordly form of Rubens seemed to rise from the fog and the darkness, and to loom in its magnificence before him, whilst the lips, with their kindly smile, seemed to him to murmur, Nay, have courage! It was not by a weak heart and by faint fear that I wrote my name for all time upon Antwerp.
Dog of Flanders & Other Stories
Author:- Louise De La Ramee (Ouida).
Category:- hope
Quote:- Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.
Author:- A.W. Tozer
Category:- hope
Quote:- Perhaps it was one of those mild, sunny winter days when you have a feeling of holiday and eternity-the illusory feeling that the course of time is suspended, and that you need only slip through this breach to escape the trap that is closing around you.
Dora Bruder
Author:- Patrick Modiano
Category:- time
Quote:- Perhaps Joe and I can carry on loving each other, even when miles of air and experience separate us. Not in the way of wanting to wake up in the same bed, Or needing to speak to each other when something goes wrong. But as a quiet love that endures out of respect for the impact he had on my life.
Notes on Heartbreak
Author:- Annie Lord
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.
Elizabeth I
Author:- Margaret George
Category:- time
Quote:- Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can't touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep.
The Story of a Marriage
Author:- Andrew Sean Greer
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.
Brisingr
Author:- Christopher Paolini
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Perhaps one could not live with such knowledge. One might die for it, or of it.
The Message to the Planet
Author:- Iris Murdoch
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Perhaps she lived a thousand lifetimes before, a world that breathed on Love, a home that bloomed of togetherness, a wild crazy love that rolled between peace and madness, but no matter what held onto each other, that believed in growing into each other for each other with each other.
Author:- Debatrayee Banerjee
Category:- Love
Quote:- Perhaps swimming was dancing under the water, he thought. To swim under lily pads seeing their green slender stalks wavering as you passed, to swim under upraised logs past schools of sunfish and bluegills, to swim through reed beds past wriggling water snakes and miniature turtles, to swim in small lakes, big lakes, Lake Michigan, to swim in small farm ponds, creeks, rivers, giant rivers where one was swept along easefully by the current, to swim naked alone at night when you were nineteen and so alone you felt like you were choking every waking moment, having left home for reasons more hormonal than rational; reasons having to do with the abstraction of the future and one's questionable place in the world of the future, an absurdity not the less harsh for being so widespread.
The Man Who Gave Up His Name
Author:- Jim Harrison
Category:- philosophy