Appear Quotes

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Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then… — Criss Jami
Night and day a picture of the showcase of the Lame Novelty Company and its gambling content would seem to appear before my eyes. Then… — John Scarne
I desire to go through life knowing as little of evil in it as possible. To this end, I sometimes avoid looking too closely into… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or… — Charles de Lint
Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Strictly speaking, the mass, as a psychological fact, can be defined without waiting for individuals to appear in mass formation. In the presence of one… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave… — George Bernard Shaw
Do you not think that sometimes when matters are at the worst with us, when we appear to have done all which we ourselves can… — James Anthony Froude
A really free mind is scarcely attached to its opinions. If the mind cannot help giving birth to ... emotions and affections which at first… — Paul Valery
In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a… — S I Hayakawa
There is an inimitable grace in Virgil's words, and in them principally consists that beauty which gives so inexpressible a pleasure to him who best… — John Dryden
How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or… — John Dryden
It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
If humans did not manufacture some of their own to appear like better people, people would not aspire to be someone else. They would stop… — Craig Stone
When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate… — Bill Vaughan
Among these widely differing families of men, the first that attracts attention, the superior in intelligence, in power, and in enjoyment, is the white, or… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition;… — Alexis de Tocqueville
It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it. — Karl Marx
You should only attempt to borrow from those who have but few of this world's goods, as their chests are not of iron, and they… — Heinrich Heine
The opinion I have of the generality of women--who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar plum than my… — John Keats

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