Appears Quotes
1196 quotes by 943 authors
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its…
— Hannah Arendt
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new…
— Hannah Arendt
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them…
— Pietro Aretino
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it…
— Sholem Asch
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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to…
— Francis Bacon
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I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
— Arthur Balfour
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Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP, and it may prove to…
— Bob Beauprez
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In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.
— Martha Beck
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
— Joseph Addison
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Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the Old Testament. A…
— Annie Besant
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived;…
— David Brainerd
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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
— Charlotte Bronte
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When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.
— Albert Brooks
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Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
— Alexis Carrel
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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
— Noam Chomsky
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The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
— Hillary Clinton
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Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
— Paulo Coelho
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There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person. The person merely…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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