Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Progress is always the product of fresh thinking, and much of it thinking which to practical men bears the semblance of dreaming. — Robert Gordon Sproul Copy Share Image
I need the concept of mercy for me to have some semblance of self-admiration. So in real life, I'm probably somebody who… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Ylli, Agron and Mehmet were never given a fair and public trial, an opportunity to defend themselves, or any semblance of due… — Avis Bohlen Copy Share Image
I need a semblance of routine so little things, like having my morning cup of English breakfast tea and going to Pilates… — Louise Roe Copy Share Image
If I could get any semblance of - it's not really anonymity, but a little bit more - control over my public… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
If [YouTube] were to switch to Theora and maintain even a semblance of the current YouTube quality it would take up most… — Chris DiBona Copy Share Image
The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Somethings get easier. You get more confident in your abilities and you learn what kind of stories sell and what don't. But… — Lori Wilde Copy Share Image
By a kind of fashionable discipline, the eye is taught to brighten, the lip to smile, and the whole countenance to emanate… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Before I was ten I became critical of the anthropomorphic God as interpreted in the churches. I did not warm to One… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
If I could get any semblance of, not really anonymity, but control over my public image, that would be nice. But no,… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there [in a Daguerreotype] so… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Voices of the glorified urge us onward. They who have passed from the semblances of time to the realities of eternity call… — William James Copy Share Image
Nostalgia for people, cultures, everything. There's an ability to use these marks to note things that are erased, deleted. Traces are a… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved. — Dan Buettner Copy Share Image
For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I am very critical! I hate watching myself but I know I have to because I'm going to be asked so I… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Marine Le Pen seem to have no respect for the institutions that were created after World War… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The power of beauty at work in man, as the artist has always known, is severe and exacting, and once evoked, will… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art… — John Walford Copy Share Image
No one can do without some semblance of immortality, and even less will they deny themselves the right to seek it out… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something.… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The virtual suppression of ethical discussion after 1845 produces the semblance of purely descriptive analysis, dressed in the mantle of positivist objectivity,… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think a lot about the editing of the films when we're making them, partly because I studied that, and partly because… — Paul Schneider Copy Share Image
But nothing is better than a truth which appears not to have the semblance of truth. There is always something incomprehensible about… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Illusion - or rather appearance, semblance - is the theme of my life (could be theme of speech welcoming freshmen to the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The affluent society has built well in terms of economic progress, but has neglected the protection of the very water we drink… — Frank Church Copy Share Image
There is nothing more pitiable than a soulless, sapless, shriveled church, seeking to thrive in a worldly atmosphere, rooted in barren professions,… — George C. Lorimer Copy Share Image
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![“An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there [in a Daguerreotype] so well by the limner's cunning. Time, space, both are annihilated, and we identify the semblance with the reality.” quote by Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/686/walt-whitman-265_brain_an-electric-chain-seems-to-vibrate-as-it_936513.jpg)
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