Apparent Quotes

455 quotes by 402 authors

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of man certainly interest… — Gustave Moreau
A conventional â€˜successâ€™ story is one where, with each next, the protagonist has more money, more respect, and more possessions. Iâ€™d like to suggest an… — Po Bronson
This is the law of prosperity: When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it, and always look… — Ralph Waldo Trine
Letting things slide is always the easiest thing to do, in parenting no less than in banking, public education, and environmental protection. A lack of… — Elizabeth Kolbert
The struggle for justice should never be abandoned because of the apparent overwhelming power of those who seem invincible in their determination to hold on… — Howard Zinn
To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when if it would but clothe itself with a few carnal advantages,… — John Owen
She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the… — Rebecca West
The limitations that we can see of the sexual description of reality are very apparent. Very few men attain enlightenment, even fewer women. — Frederick Lenz
The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. This cannot be owing to… — Edmund Burke
There are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are however apparent horizons which persist… — Stephen Hawking
Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the… — Abdelkader El Djezairi
Our technological society has no longer any place in it for wisdom that seeks truth for its own sake, that seeks the fullness of being,… — Thomas Merton
He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin. It… — Winston Churchill
The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd. — George Bernard Shaw
Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and the rest of the biosphere.… — Richard Heinberg
It is not in violence and crime that our greatest danger lies. These evils are so perfectly apparent that they very quickly arouse the moral… — Calvin Coolidge
The necessity of procuring good Intelligence is apparent & need not be further urged-All that remains for me to add, is, that you keep the… — George Washington
The great apparent dichotomy is that the more we give, the more we get. — Stephen Covey
I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the… — Harold H. Greene
My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality. — Max Beckmann

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