Apparent Quotes

455 quotes by 402 authors

We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the conception of something… — C.S. Lewis
I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of… — George Galloway
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease. — Charles Caleb Colton
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which… — Charles Caleb Colton
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced… — Nicolaus Copernicus
All across Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, we find cultures that didn't know about mouth kissing until their first contact with European explorers. And… — Joshua Foer
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if… — Garrett Hardin
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully… — Sydney J. Harris
The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have… — Friedrich August von Hayek
As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would… — Tom Hodgkinson
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. — Victor Hugo
Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
A child gets vaccinated and soon after, autism symptoms emerge. The apparent cause-and-effect is understandable but erroneous - more a coincidence of the calendar and… — Jeffrey Kluger
In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter. — Jerzy Kosinski
I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent… — Shia LaBeouf
We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing. — Robert E. Lee
At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do. — Daniel Day-Lewis
There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time. — Alan Moore
My main point about films is that I don't like the adaptation process, and I particularly don't like the modern way of comic book-film adaptations,… — Alan Moore
The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to… — Malcolm Muggeridge

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