Appear Quotes

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence.

The UK downgrade will come as little surprise to many. It does not appear to be occurring because the UK is cutting its deficit too far and too fast.

Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.

I don't want to appear hostile, like I'm hostile to L.A. or that I feel that the people don't appreciate jazz. I don't think it's that. I think it's something more. It's something a little bit more complicated than that.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing.

In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.

They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.

Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.

So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

There's a difference between wanting to appear confident and actually feeling confident. I think there have been many times when I've overcompensated for how nervous or out of place I feel. I was like that at school.

For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.

Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: 'When you're ready, the right operating system will appear in your life.'

I'm not fancy. I'm what I appear to be.

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.