Apparent Quotes

455 quotes by 402 authors

Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon,… — John Ortberg
The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost… — Wilhelm Ostwald
Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken… — David Rockefeller
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent… — Florence Scovel Shinn
If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep… — Lysander Spooner
What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason. — Rod Stewart
Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes. — Meryl Streep
Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a… — Thomas Szasz
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent… — John Updike
As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to… — Mike Wallace
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the… — Tennessee Williams
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him,… — Virginia Woolf
Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my… — Connie Willis
If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the… — Edward Abbey
Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness. — Markus Zusak
She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked… — Albert Camus
Happiness always has an object... Depends on external things. Joy... Has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its… — Susanna Tamaro
[A]ll knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room.… — Isaac Asimov
There were plenty of women around who dressed smartly, and plenty more who dressed to impress, but this girl was different. Totally different. She wore… — Haruki Murakami
To this day, I feel a fierce warmth for women that have the same disregard for the social conventions of sexual protocol as I do.… — Russell Brand

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