Appeal Quotes
740 Appeal quotes by 633 unique authors
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Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Let us, rather, gather facts, all the facts, regardless of aesthetic appeal or theoretical social worth, and spread those facts before us not as the…
— Tom Robbins
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How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build…
— E. M. Forster
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Perhaps someone will have seen mine, the one I’m waiting for, just as I saw him, in a ditch when his hands were making their…
— Marguerite Duras
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What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science.…
— Stephen Hawking
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How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or…
— Ian Mcewan
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Time does not have the same appeal for every one
— William Shakespeare
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I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially…
— Norman Mailer
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The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment…
— H P Lovecraft
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But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests…
— Albert Camus
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A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.
— Ayn Rand
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…It’s like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And gradually, everyone gets used to everything being basic,…
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
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It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and go but real…
— Katherine Dunn
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A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by…
— Boris Pasternak
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When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor.
— Suzanne Collins
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From his soft fur, golden and brown, Goes out so sweet a scent, one night I might have been embalmed in it By giving him…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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At school, our classroom had a small rodent zoo consisting of two rabbits, three hamsters, a litter of baby gerbils and a guinea pig. At…
— Kelley Armstrong
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That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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And he’s just plain odd. And what is your problem that you keep putting yourself in my way? (Geary) She’s feisty, Skotos. I can see…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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So would you like to join me for something to eat? (Jericho) As long as it doesn’t involve the entrails of demons, I might be…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.
— China Mieville
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