Appears Quotes
1196 quotes by 943 authors
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation…
— Joseph Conrad
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No living being is held by anything so strongly as by its own needs. Whatever therefore appears a hindrance to these, be it brother, or…
— Epictetus
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How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.
— Florenz Ziegfeld
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Those desires that do not bring pain if they are not satisfied are not necessary; and they are easily thrust aside whenever to satisfy them…
— Epicurus
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The general public knows practically nothing about the prison and appears to be little concerned about how it is managed and how prisoners are treated.
— Eugene V. Debs
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The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the…
— Clive James
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Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the…
— Luigi Pirandello
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A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed…
— Ernst Mach
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A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner…
— Van Wyck Brooks
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A bearer of news of death appears to himself as very important. His feeling - even against all reason - makes him a messenger from…
— Walter Benjamin
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It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.
— Amelie Nothomb
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I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.
— Oscar Niemeyer
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I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very…
— Leo Ornstein
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Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is…
— Meghan O'Rourke
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It appears to me that no one has learned a thing; that Wall Street is still operating as if 2008 never happened.
— Collin Peterson
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You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears…
— Sean Parker
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One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist I have the advantage of information about my patients that most…
— Alan Loy McGinnis
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The universe is made up of vibrating, pulsing light. When our attention level drops, we don't see that. Instead we see what appears to be…
— Frederick Lenz
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We perceive the solidification as the world around us, which appears to be relatively solid. But that solidification is just really a reflection of the…
— Frederick Lenz
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Within silence all things are contained. What appears to our eyes to be life is but a thin curtain, a gauze penumbra, which stultifies our…
— Frederick Lenz
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