Appear Quotes

Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
Irving Babbitt

Faith, Care, Thinking

I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.
Christopher Guest

True, Become, Sense

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
Herodotus

End, Together, Old

You know, magic markets don't appear all the time, so you take advantage of them.
Marc Andreessen

Time, Magic, Advantage

You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.
David Attenborough

Actually, Talking, Television

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Quintilian

Wise, Wish, Foolish

I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Else, Wanted, Might

I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Leadership, Needs, Needed

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.
Anna Quindlen

God, She, Books

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.
Ruud Gullit

Football, Sometimes, Often

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.
Arthur Erickson

Work, Often, Artist

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.
Dylan Thomas

Bad, Until, Conviction

People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.
Dean Kamen

Mistakes, Simple, Dead

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.
Albert Barnes

Thankful, May, Find

Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.
George Galloway

War, Today, Greatest

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.
Robert Bresson

Made, Films, Using

I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject.
James Otis

Another, Order, Subject

Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.
Walter Annenberg

Work, Money, Enjoy

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.
David Mamet

Computers, Bad, May

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Death, Mistakes, Drunk

No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.
George Boole

Beautiful, May, Matter

When you're trying to solve a problem on a new product type, you become completely focused on problems that seem a number of steps removed from the main product. That problem solving can appear a little abstract, and it is easy to lose sight of the product.
Jonathan Ive

Trying, Problem, Become

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.
Mortimer Adler

Love, View, Instinct

How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.
Harry Houdini

Become, Public, Secrets

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.
Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Women, Strong, Mean

I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.
Ben Affleck

Learning, Real, Learn

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
Jean Rostand

Truth, Future, Science

I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.
Evita Peron

Strength, Woman

I am a chef who happens to appear on the telly, that's it.
Gordon Ramsay

Happens, Chef, Telly

We're living in a time when people are struggling to appear perfect.
Shirley Manson

Time, Perfect, Living

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