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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
Alan Clark

Politics, Waiting, True

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.
Charles Van Doren

Good, Evil, Learned

For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.
Leonhard Euler

Work, Wise, Nothing

I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.
Max von Sydow

Time, Evil, Create

The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.
Jerry Saltz

Good, Art, Enough

In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to.
Ernest Holmes

Great, Principle, Religions

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.
John B. S. Haldane

Nature, God, Special

This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.
Bill Maher

Experience, Learning, Thought

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
Charles Baudelaire

Beauty, Found, Foolish

Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.
Jeff Bridges

Real, Light, Off

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Time, Mind, Lazy

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
Jean de la Bruyere

Makes, Within, Politeness

Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.
Elizabeth I

Worst, Sanctified

My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.
Hugh Jackman

Education, Learning, Father

The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.
Paracelsus

Dreams, Great, God

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.
Barney Frank

Become, Able, Won

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Family, Society, Children

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Charlotte Bronte

Around, Matter, State

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

Two, Kinds, Blindness

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.
Nat Turner

Time, Great, Society

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
Alfred Adler

War, Human, Path

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.
Isaiah Berlin

Why, Wish, Whether

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Talk, Devil, Horns

It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.
Christopher Dodd

Food, Forget, Easy

When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
Ramakrishna

Good, Bad, Vision

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.
Felix Mendelssohn

Music, God, Blessed

When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.
David Duchovny

Getting, Started, Commercial

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
Samuel Richardson

Humor, Women, Hopes

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
Max de Pree

Change, Leadership, Learning

Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.
Morgan Freeman

Character, Him, Through

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