Ostensibly Quotes

37 quotes by 36 authors

In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business,… — Maggie Gallagher
One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence. Ostensibly, their aim… — H. L. Mencken
I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport, although… — Amy Johnson
The abstraction, ostensibly, is simply for me the penetration of something that is more profound in many ways than rigidity of a form. A form… — Beauford Delaney
I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere that suddenly becomes… — Jean-Luc Godard
Real life this fdar had taught me that in the adult world, fate was chaotic and uncertain. Guidelines for success were arbitrary. But in the… — Ethan Gilsdorf
Fear forces us to spend our lives dealing with it, ostensibly to overcome it. But that is a trick. Only fear (the illusion of separation)… — Cheri Huber
As political theorist Michael Parenti points out, historians often overlook Fascism's economic agenda--the partnership between Big Capital and Big Government--in their analysis of its authoritarian… — Richard Heinberg
We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends --… — Friedrich Engels
Many of us Christians have become extremely skillful in arranging our lives so as to admit the truth of Christianity without being embarrassed by its… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Dorothy Day, of blessed memory, did not like to be called (as she often was, for good reason) a saint, because it usually meant that… — William Stringfellow
Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as… — Angela Carter
There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea. — Al Yankovic
I am the daughter of a psychologist. I know that the thing ostensibly being studied is rarely the thing being studied. (We Are All Completely… — Karen Joy Fowler
Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to… — Nick Flynn
THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY is ostensibly an autobiography but in truth it is much more than that. In this remarkably fine new translation, Anthea Bell… — Ronald Harwood
Here's my unsolicited advice to any aspiring screenwriters who might be reading this: Donâ€™t ever agonize about the hordes of other writers who are ostensibly… — Diablo Cody
If we are lending money that ostensibly we don't have to kids who have no hope of making it back in order to train them… — Mike Rowe
As nonhuman animals, plants, and even 'inanimate' rivers once spoke to our oral ancestors, so the ostensibly â€œinertâ€ letters on the page now speak to… — David Abram
We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new… — Bob Weir

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