Appear Quotes

1904 quotes by 1405 authors

When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads,… — John Dryden
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked… — Herman Melville
To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not… — Gilbert Adair
The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence; below… — Alexis de Tocqueville
And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul,… — Edmund Waller
I think fear... tends to hold people back from really pursuing their dreams. Basically: LEAP! And the net will appear. — Bif Naked
The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-sat-isfied man. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. — Charles Caleb Colton
Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can… — E L Doctorow
Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them. — Andre Gide
I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from various angles) by… — Andre Gide
Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear. — Isaac D'Israeli
A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things. — George Orwell
Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place. — Samuel Johnson
Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to… — Lord Chesterfield
Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting. — Anna Brownell Jameson
It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral… — Simone de Beauvoir
Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself. — Irving Babbitt

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