A Quotes
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“Apparently, this really was Kill Charley Davidson Week. Or at least Horribly Maim Her.... It would probably never get government recognition, though, destined to be underappreciated like Halloween or Thesaurus Day.”
Source: The Charley Davidson Series
“Apparently, union bosses are so distraught about declining enrollments they will stoop to exploiting illegal workers. There is no doubt that this would hurt American workers, who would suddenly face a flooded job market full of cheap foreign labor. It would depress the wages of the American workers and cost them jobs.”
“Apparently, when Twin Peaks was on the air in Spain, something like 50 percent of televisions were tuned to it.”
“Apparently, word of the chicken man incident hadn’t spread quite yet.”
Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“Apparitions are often confused with hauntings. The difference is that apparitions are "live" (intelligent consciousness) and hauntings are "recordings.”
“Apparitions are, so to speak, shreds and fragments of other worlds, the first beginnings of them. There is, of course, no reason why a healthy man should see them, because a healthy man is mainly a being of this earth, and therefore for completeness and order he must live only this earthly life. But as soon as he falls ill, as soon as the normal earthly state of the organism is disturbed, the possibility of another world begins to appear, and as the illness increases, so do the contacts with the other world, so that at the moment of a man's death he enters fully into that world.”
Source: Crime and Punishment
“Appartenir à une patrie, c'est aussi s'engager pour le siècle où l'on y vit" (source: émission sur la Russie sur Arte le 28/02/2012). "L'honneur d'un peuple appartient aux morts et les vivants n'en ont que l'usufruit - Georges Bernanos - Nos démocraties ne valent que par les hommes qui les servent. Elles ne sont donc jamais parfaites mais elles reposent sur un socle inamovible , selon Gandhi : “La véritable source des droits est le devoir.” Tout le reste est une question d’organisation. "Le passé renforce le présent et les pas hésitants qui conduisent à ce présent trouvent le chemin de l'avenir..." "TELL ME WHO YOUR FRIENDS ARE AND I WILL TELL YOU HOW YOU ARE" Pour juger de la beauté d'un ouvrage, il suffit de le considérer en lui-même ; mais, pour juger du mérite de l'auteur, il faut le comparer à son siècle FONTENELLE ------------------------------------------- "La quantité de critiques reçues concernant tout sujet est inversement proportionnelle à la valeur exacte du sujet". (Louis de Potter, 1850)”
Source: Louis de Potter. Révolutionnaire Belge en 1830.
“Appartenir à une patrie, c'est aussi s'engager pour le siècle où l'on y vit (source: émission sur la Russie sur Arte le 28/02/2012). Nos démocraties ne valent que par les hommes qui les servent. Elles ne sont donc jamais parfaites mais elles reposent sur un socle inamovible. Le passé renforce le présent et les pas hésitants qui conduisent à ce présent trouvent le chemin de l'avenir. TELL ME WHO YOUR FRIENDS ARE AND I WILL TELL YOU WHO YOU ARE”
Source: Louis de Potter. Révolutionnaire Belge en 1830.
“Appartenir à une terre, ce n'est pas seulement y être né, c'est accepter de porter son héritage comme une boussole, même quand les vents de l'histoire cherchent à nous désorienter.”
Source: Sous les Étoiles du Cameroun - Chronique d'un pays aux mille visages
“Appeal can't happen until I've been sentenced.”
“Appeal. Guy's like you get all excited about the appeal. Don't you see that I view the very existence of an appeal as a disastrous failure? No much worse, a personal affront of the highest order for which I blame you.”
Source: A Naked Singularity
“Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.”
Source: Essays in legal history in honor of Felix Frankfurter
“Appeal to all scholars of stupidity in the world. Come to Italy, this country has the highest rate of morons of the universe, especially among political, bureaucratic, judicial, religious, intellectual, artistic, and mass media members, so it is the best place to develop your own field research.”
“Appeal with respect to elderly people as you would to the members of your own family.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.”
“Appealing to emotions, immediate gratification, and passivity of the American public is enabling a sicker society.”
Source: Paindemic: A Practical and Holistic Look at Chronic Pain, the Medical System, and the antiPAIN Lifestyle
“Appealing to his [Einstein's] way of expressing himself in theological terms, I said: If God had wanted to put everything into the universe from the beginning, He would have created a universe without change, without organisms and evolution, and without man and man's experience of change. But he seems to have thought that a live universe with events unexpected even by Himself would be more interesting than a dead one.”
Source: Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography
“Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will tell us what the world smells like, what the textures are, what the sounds are, what the light looks like, what the weather is.”
“Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.”
“Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability.”
Source: The Early Stories: 1953-1975
“Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.”
“Appear as you are, or be as you appear.”
“Appear as you may wish to be”
“Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend; march swiftly to places where you are not expected.”
Source: The Complete Art of War
“Appear On Your Fear, It Will Disappear”
“Appear to him, as he to me appears,
All melting; though our drops this difference bore,
His poison'd me, and mine did him restore.”
Source: A Lover's Complaint
“Appear to know only this--never to fail nor fall.”
Source: The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments
“Appear tougher or cooler or funnier than you feel and there is a chance you'll make it.”
Source: American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
“Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.”
“Appearance can always be changed, but the talent stays the same.”
Source: I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down
“Appearance can be used as a tool to aid your purpose in life, but it mustn't become your purpose in life.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“Appearance
His afro is wavy,”
“Appearance is a type of power.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“Appearance is everything. I find that a view is secondary. Even in those apartments on the East River, it's dull, looking out at those little boats.”
“Appearance is irrelevant, perception is irrelevant; what matters is that reality exists and that we are capable of understanding it. This is the absolute key to survival. A man who lives by his mind, lives; a man who ignores his mind, thereby ignoring reality, dies. Simple.”
“Appearance is nothing if hands don't unfold.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.”
“Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.”
“Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be a mirror of the invisible, inner self.”
Source: Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty
“Appearance is valued too much in our society.”
“Appearance, Knowledge & Wealth - All breeds Power. Power breeds temptations - Physical, emotional & control.”
Source: The Final Sequel: The Architect’s Web
“Appearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.”
“Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chimera.”
Source: Clocks
“Appearance rules the world.”
Source: Friedrich Schiller, poet of freedom
“Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.”
“Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.”
“Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.”
“Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.”
Source: Letters from A Self-Made Merchant to His Son (EasyRead Large Edition)