Top 100 Appears Quotes
#1. The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless; he can only enjoy, with a good conscience, what he has acquired with toil and trouble; he refused to have anything as a gift.
Josef Pieper
#2. Sometime in the near future, I pray that my faith can surpass the physical reality that appears in front of me and beyond me.
Patricia Graham
#3. And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requiring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#4. Most of our suffering comes from sin and stupidity; it is, nevertheless, very real, and growth can occur with real repentance. But the highest source of suffering appears to be reserved for the innocent who undergo divine tutorial training.
Neal A. Maxwell
#5. An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.
Carl Jung
#6. The "lone genius" myth: An individual with superhuman talents appears out of nowhere at certain points in history, free of influences or precedent, with a direct connection to God or The Muse.
Austin Kleon
#7. The enthusiast has been compared to a man walking in a fog; everything immediately around him, or in contact with him, appears sufficiently clear and luminous; but beyond the little circle of which he himself is the centre, all is mist and error and confusion.
Charles Caleb Colton
#8. When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
Jean Cocteau
#9. The social states of human kinds Are made by multitudes of minds, And after multitudes of years A little human growth appears Worth having, even to the soul Who sees most plain it's not the whole.
John Masefield
#10. As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
John Locke
#11. The universe is made up of vibrating, pulsing light. When our attention level drops, we don't see that. Instead we see what appears to be a solid material world.
Frederick Lenz
#12. In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.
Muhammad Iqbal
#13. To the naked eye death appears random. To the spiritually inclined it appears ordained.
Mike Dooley
#14. Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.
H.P. Lovecraft
#15. How can I make it clear to him that what appears easy and attractive will drag him down into the depths, depths where there is no comfort to be found, no friends and no beauty, depths from which it is almost impossible to raise oneself?
Anne Frank
#16. Anything you imagine (inner world)will materialize into your life (outer world). It's speed of materializing is determined by how much feeling and trust you give it, and how well you are able to recognize when it appears. Awareness and Creation are inseparable.
Franklin Gillette
#17. It appears to me that the most highly evolved Earthling creatures find being alive embarrassing or much worse.
Kurt Vonnegut
#18. Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#19. I look for something that can challenge me or makes me ever so slightly afraid - fearful of how I am going to approach it - then I'll go for it. If the project appears linear or predictable, then I'll usually give it a miss. Anything that involves me being stretched as an actor, I go for.
Andrew Buchan
#20. Clearly, products for women are not as well scrutinized as products for men. It appears they never tested the implants in breast tissue and that they received decades of complaints from women. It's the kind of stuff that makes you want to scream!
Emily Martin
#21. It has an edge because it is so different. Soon imitators pop up everywhere. It becomes a fashion, something to conform to, even if the comformity appears to be rebellious and edgy. This can drag on for ten, twenty years; it eventually becomes a cliche, ppure style without any real emotion or need.
Robert Greene
#22. Obedience appears to me more and more the whole business of life, the only road to love and peace.
Philip Zaleski
#23. Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
Beverly Cleary
#24. As an artist, one doesn't know what is real. And so there's a search and a process of trying to locate something that feels or appears or somehow resonates with us on a deeper level. This is why art is such an interesting business to be in.
Chris Martin
#25. It appears that inherited (I should say stale) evangelical apologetics has almost completely displaced any serious attempt to seek the most likely meaning of gospel texts in their own right, in their ancient contexts.
Robert M. Price
#26. In every defeat, there develops a silent embryo of victory; in every failure, under the rubbles, there appears a divine key to success.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#27. We must consider not only why the classical theory of democracy appears to be in contradiction with the observed practice, but also why the many different responses to this observation, though mutually incompatible, all share the belief that democracy is the best form of political organization.
Moses Finley
#28. I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma Gandhi
#29. HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso as to experience relief when one returns back to'the present'.
Douglas Coupland
#30. mad, were not my perception and reasonings so clear; and this state of mind appears to have brought with it superior knowledge on all subjects.
Novalis
#31. There appears to be value in getting past a mentality that good things can only rest in good things.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#32. Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain in the Union appears to us horrible to the last degree.
Jane Swisshelm
#33. The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production.
Karl Marx
#34. Combination does not produce though mergers and combinations are still the accepted panacea. In Big business there appears to be increasing aridity, bureaucracy, and stultifying sacrifice of initiative and above all fear.
Reginald Fessenden
#35. The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.
Mary Somerville
#36. A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within ... for the traitor appears not to be a traitor ... he rots the soul of a nation ... he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#37. It appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths, and to dispute with some prevailing prejudice every inch of ground.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#38. However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.
Paul Keres
#39. the beauty of nature appears only as a reflectin of the beauty,that belongs to spirit, as an imperfect incomplete mode [of beauty],
a mode which in its substance is contained in the spirit itself"
*hegel
T.M. Knox
#40. By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.
Rabindranath Tagore
#41. If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Tom Peters
#42. My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he appears in old photographs to possess a whippy, muscular frame, he was actually a frail man and usually managed to cause some kind of drama just before the festivities began.
Christopher Fowler
#43. In their sample, it appears that males were more likely to enter the cenote as body parts than women.
Vera Tiesler
#44. Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.
Guru Nanak
#46. If you want to relax the worry-tightened muscles in your face, let the half smile come to your face. As the half smile appears, all the facial muscles begin to relax. The longer the half smile is maintained, the better. It is the same smile you see on the face
Thich Nhat Hanh
#47. Knowledge by itself does not give understanding. Nor is understanding increased by an increase of knowledge alone. Understanding depends upon the relation of knowledge to being ... It appears only when a man feels and senses what is connected with it.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#48. Eyebrows and hair singed off, Hector is barely recognizable under a lathering of day-glow orange. He appears to have been tarred-and-feathered with orange tar and oatmeal feathers.
Ray Palla
#49. If you have firm trust in God, the success that comes to you will always be that which is most useful for you whether it appears good or bad in your private judgment.
Francis De Sales
#50. What appears in the pictures was the subject's decision, not mine. I took what they presented - delicate moments - unadorned and unglamorous, yet tender and exquisite.
Ray Metzker
#51. Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.
Gary Snyder
#52. People don't like to be kept away from what they want. Especially when it appears within their reach. It makes one doubly angry.
Dave Eggers
#54. Either systems are in balance or they are falling apart. If people are acting in what appears to be a twisted way, I want to know the reason for that.
Raymond E. Feist
#55. Suddenly, Blaze appears, alone. "She's in the middle of something really important. What do I tell her?"
Jen groans. "Tell her she gets to hack into the CIA's system. She won't be able to pass that up.
C.B. Cook
#56. I seem to want the things I can't have. Occasionally, when something is finally attainable, the chase appears to be over and the fire burns out.
John O'Callaghan
#57. A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.
C. G. Jung
#58. What appears to be the established order of present-day civilization is actually only the inert but spectacular momentum of a high velocity vehicle whose engine has already stopped functioning.
Jose Arguelles
#59. Space is not a scientific object removed from ideology or politics. It has always been political and strategic. There is an ideology of space. Because space, which seems homogeneous, which appears as a whole in its objectivity, in its pure form, such as we determine it, is a social product.
Henri Lefebvre
#60. Heavy resistance strength training (loads 85% 1RM) appears to evoke significant gains in maximal eccentric muscle strength.
Marco Cardinale
#61. Stress appears in your life because you have a rigid view of 'This is the way the world should be,' and the Universe pays scant regard to your desires. And you refuse to accept this.
Srikumar Rao
#62. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#63. But there is this peculiarity about heat: it appears to affect only those that think of it.
R.K. Narayan
#64. It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.
Adam Smith
#65. I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. Everyone ignores me except for some Capitol attendant who appears behind me and offers me a beverage.
Suzanne Collins
#66. Our forms of government - though both cast in the democratic pattern - are greatly different. Indeed, sometimes it appears that many of our misunderstandings spring from an imperfect knowledge on the part of both of us of the dissimilarities in our forms of government.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#67. Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.
Eric Alterman
#68. It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.
Roy H. Williams
#70. Love is a trap. When it appears, we can only see its light, not its shadows.
Paulo Coelho
#71. Again, the political and cultural arguments carried weight, and bottleneck regulation has neither been strengthened, nor lessened, in the digital era. Instead, it appears that differentiated regulation remains the preferred solution.
Anonymous
#72. A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks:
"Aren't you tired of waiting?"
"Yes," answers the rose, "but if I close my petals, I will wither and die.
Paulo Coelho
#73. Richart found and it appears the dosage of the drug they deliver has
Dianne Duvall
#74. Without your entrance to greater reality in this life, greater reality has no entrance to this life. The meaning of all of this lifeisn't as it appears. The meaning of this life is for greater reality to manifest through all the forms of this life.
John De Ruiter
#75. If you are divided from your body you are also divided from the body of the world, which then appears to be other than you or separate from you, rather than the living continuum to which you belong.
Philip Shepard
#76. The hat is not for the street: it will never be democratized. But there are certain houses that one cannot enter without a hat. And one must always wear a hat when lunching with people whom one does not know well. One appears to one's best advantage.
Coco Chanel
#77. In all of these instances he appears to be concerned with the intrinsic value of the security and more particularly with the discovery of discrepancies between the intrinsic value and the market price.
Benjamin Graham
#78. To me it appears strange that the men against whom I should be enabled to bring an action for laying a little dirt at my door, may with impunity drive by it half-a-dozen calves, with their tails lopped close to their bodies and their hinder parts covered with blood ...
Lord Chesterfield
#79. It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession
Thomas Hardy
#80. A great many people in Los Angeles are on special diets that restrict their intake of synthetic foods. The reason for this appears to be a widely held belief that organically grown fruits and vegetables make the cocaine work faster.
Fran Lebowitz
#81. When blood is placed under a microscope, it appears as a number of minute globules or discs, but when seen by the trained clairvoyant as it courses through the living body, blood is found to be a gas, a spiritual essence.
Max Heindel
#82. Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#83. To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#84. To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.
Marc Chagall
#85. For 'Prometheus,' I came back to a very simple question that haunted me that appears in the first 'Alien,' and no one answered in subsequent Alien films: who was the 'Space Jockey' - the big guy in the seat? If you really go into that, it becomes the basis for a pretty interesting story.
Ridley Scott
#86. When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.
Anthony Robbins
#87. Opportunity presents itself sometimes in unusual situations. What you think is the worst thing turns out to be a good thing. Different circumstances challenge people to do things they didn't know they could do, and in those times when the outlook appears the worst, we find new reasons for optimism.
S. Truett Cathy
#88. about to knock again when the inside door is pulled open to reveal a sinewy woman dressed in what appears to be layers of old sweaters and an ankle-length denim skirt. Her long hair held back in an elastic that leaves the ends bunched and brittle as the head of a broom. Brown eyes wide and alive,
Andrew Pyper
#89. The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God.
Brother Lawrence
#90. It was our view of the worst that could befall our people if they were taken captive. So, what was fascinating to me was that somehow it appears the techniques that we have feared most in the world would be used on our people, we are using on people in our custody.
Jane Mayer
#91. In 1907, or so it has sometimes been written, Albert Einstein saw a workman fall off a roof and began to think about gravity. Alas, like many good stories this one appears to be apocryphal. According to Einstein himself, he was simply sitting in a chair when the problem of gravity occurred to him.
Bill Bryson
#92. The first sign builders are on their way is when - hey, presto! - a skip appears outside your house.
Craig Brown
#93. I'm particularly struck by the neo-socialist concern for the well-being of plants, animals, lakes and rivers, rain forests and deserts - particularly when the concern for the environment appears far more intense than the concern for the human family.
Robert Sirico
#94. Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#95. I know it well, sir; you have an exchequer of words, and, I think, no other treasure to give your followers; for it appears by their bare liveries that they live by your bare words.
William Shakespeare
#96. In the whisper of the leaves appears an interchange of love.
William Jones
#97. Satan's survival-of-the-fittest system appears to work- in the short run. But the great controversy is about the long run.
Jack Provonsha
#98. My soul, the seas are rough, and thou a stranger In these false coasts; O keep aloof; there's danger; Cast forth thy plummet; see, a rock appears; Thy ships want sea-room; make it with thy tears.
Francis Quarles
#99. Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty, as gratefulness; but primarily as longing and wistful melancholy.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#100. We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves became our 10-year-old selves, and so on and on; and if we unpack our selves, the full album appears. Every moment is a part of the following moment, and we are all a continuum.
Anne Roiphe
