Appeals Quotes · Page 27

I am done underestimating [Donald] Trump and his appeal.

— Christopher Michael Cillizza

A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals…

— Boris Pasternak

But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I…

— Albert Camus

I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly…

— George Bernard Shaw

The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional…

— E. O. Wilson

One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with…

— Christopher Caldwell

What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the…

— William Matthews

The Lord is not serious. In fact, it is a little hard to know just what else He is except loving. And…

— Ray Bradbury

Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not…

— Mark Kurlansky

There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate…

— George Nakashima

The other reason that I am here today, again from the State Department and from the court record of the court of…

— Paul Robeson

The circus doesn't stop. A federal appeals court has postponed the recall election. How stupid are we? Even our recalls get recalled.

— Jay Leno

Sex appeal is not on purpose.

— Heather Locklear

It is paltry philosophy if in the old-fashioned way one lays down rules and principles in total disregard of moral values .…

— Carl von Clausewitz

The chief difficulty is that God demands of us that we live by faith: faith in God, God's sovereignty over the future,…

— Daniel Thambyrajah Niles

One's worth and self-regard ought to come from individual competitive performance, not from group identity. Pride based on clan or tribal connections…

— William A. Henry III

The night club had a curious and diverse appeal. To some it was a sex-exciter. To others, frequenting a night club and…

— Stanley Walker

There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

— John Zerzan

Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'rejected' scrawled across 'em.

— Anonymous

We reckoned we could make it because there were four of us. None at us would've made it alone, because Paul wasn't…

— John Lennon

I have no sex appeal. If my husband didn't toss and turn, we'd never have had any kids.

— Joan Rivers

I have found on Alpha that those from an essentially enlightened background feel at home with the parts of the course which…

— Nicky Gumbel

We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.

— Wole Soyinka

I'm asked so often whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of…

— Martha Graham

To find the cause of our ills in something outside ourselves, something specific that can be spotted and eliminated, is a diagnosis…

— Eric Hoffer