Apparent Quotes

455 quotes by 402 authors

Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the… — Peter Straub
I do agree you can't just make movies three hours long for no apparent reason. For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's… — David Fincher
Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers,… — Lucretia Mott
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity. — Frances Harper
I am a pationate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images, it comes closest to the truth ... the snapshooter['s] pictures have an… — Lisette Model
It is apparent that nothing short of contraceptives can put an end to the horrors of abortion and infanticide. — Margaret Sanger
Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
If the new movies do contradict my books in some way, I can probably come up with some hand-waving story that will explain the apparent… — Timothy Zahn
As to the strong likeness between General Hamilton and Dr. Stevens, Mr. Yard could give no account; altho' it seemed apparent that he thought them… — Timothy Pickering
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry… — Samuel Johnson
Compare the emotional vocabulary available to a leader (confidence, satisfaction, indignation) with the emotions not permitted (regret, embarrassment, dread, angst, mortification, anger, surprise, wonder, doubt),… — John MacLachlan Gray
Our work is not to change what you do, but to witness what you do with enough awareness, enough curiosity, enough tenderness that the lies… — Geneen Roth
The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things… — Gautama Buddha
Storytelling strengthens the imagination. To imagine is to envision, to see with the inward eye. This ability to imagine is the basis of all creativity.… — Carol Birch
Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows. — Rasheed Ogunlaru
It was apparent that many of the speeds used in the estimates were too large. The scale guiding wind speeds wasn't in tune with reality. — Joe Schaefer
The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the most imposing personages of the a splendid procession; it is by them that the mob… — Walter Bagehot
There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. — Catherine Drinker Bowen
All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from… — Samuel Johnson
The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction… — Edgar Rice Burroughs

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