Apparent Quotes
455 quotes by 402 authors
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
— Karen Armstrong
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to…
— Douglas Adams
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As more information becomes available, and the magnitude of the storm's impact becomes even more apparent, it becomes clear that this recovery will be lengthy.
— Jo Bonner
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It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.
— Harry Browne
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The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that…
— Dick Cheney
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Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on…
— Norman Podhoretz
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Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of…
— Wendell Willkie
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Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and to struggle with…
— Ralph Ellison
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Privilege is least apparent to those who have it.
— Clarence Page
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Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their…
— John Milton
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There was the man who seemed to be attempting to decieve his ball and lull it into a false sense of security by looking away…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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The advent of the rubber ball was instrumental in creating an entirely different method of striking the object. The solid ball required to be hit…
— Harry Vardon
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Look on each day that comes as a challenge, as a test of courage. The pain will come in waves, some days worse than others,…
— Daphne du Maurier
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If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the worst,…
— Charles Spurgeon
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I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion with my previous…
— Henri Poincare
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All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world.
— Marc Chagall
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Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name…
— Isaac Newton
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I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only…
— Samuel Johnson
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Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of…
— Seneca the Younger
Who Wrote These Apparent Quotes
402 authors contributed a total of 455 Apparent Quotes, led by these top contributors: