Appears To Be Quotes

#1. There appears to be a vast amount of confusion on this point, but I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be "accepted" by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don't wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on this planet.

James Baldwin

#2. It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis, but be certain to be either proved or disproved by..comparison with observed facts.

John Stuart Mill

#3. There's a hand," she said.

"You need a hand?" Matthew carefully skated back to her. "Have you got yourself stuck?"

"No, Matthew. There appears to be a hand. Frozen in the ice.

Lauren James

#4. I'm grateful for my whole family, but my dad is like Obi-Wan Kenobi, Superman, and Evel Knievel all at one time. I can think I have it all figured out, and he'll say, 'But did you look at that side of it?' He shows me just how much more there is than what appears to be.

Guy Fieri

#5. It appears to be monumental only because it's art.

Christo

#6. How can you be so nice to me and how can you forgive me when I've been such a jerk?"
Maddy appears to think for a moment. "When you are reading a book and you finish a chapter, you don't keep re-reading the chapter you just finished. You move on to the next chapter to see what happens.

Stephen Reid Andrews

#7. When you drive down Cemetery Road, the angel appears to be looking directly at you. Yet once you pass the monument and look back over your shoulder, the angel is still looking at you. Thus the appellation: the Turning Angel.

Greg Iles

#8. There are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown. It is in the nature of the discovery that it can not be planned or programmed. On the contrary it consists of surprises and appears many times in the most unexpected places.

Bengt I. Samuelsson

#9. Apparently I write as a hobby, payment appears to be out of the question.

Roy A. Higgins

#10. The Avatar appears to be human and we are misled into thinking of him in these terms but the Avatar himself warns us against this error.

Sathya Sai Baba

#11. There is a difference between going to a service "for the worship" and going to a service "to worship the Lord." The distinction appears to be a minor one, but it may imply the difference between the worship of God and the worship of music!

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#12. The quality of conversation appears to be a key factor in the evolution of an organization.

Philip Streatfield

#13. A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.

Umberto Eco

#14. Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.

John Locke

#15. When I say that consciousness is an illusion I do not mean that consciousness does not exist. I mean that consciousness is not what it appears to be. If it seems to be a continuous stream of rich and detailed experiences, happening one after the other to a conscious person, this is the illusion.

Susan Blackmore

#16. What appears to be lacking, even in great apes, is a motivation to find means to exchange what is on each other's minds.

Thomas Suddendorf

#17. History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

Fernand Braudel

#18. When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it's the beginning of time.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#19. I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.

Andrew Solomon

#20. If life really depends on each gene being as unique as it appears to be, then it is too unique to come into being by chance mutations.

Frank B. Salisbury

#21. Regarding social media, I really don't understand what appears to be the general population's lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire lives on the Internet for others to see to such an extent ... but hey it's them, not me, so whatever.

Axl Rose

#22. A similar statement appears in the US Strategic Bombing Survey Summary Report (European War) (30 September 1945): The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

George C. Marshall

#23. Fear isn't what it appears to be,
it's a motivation that sets us free,
keep scratching, chewing and kicking me,
waiting for that moment in time to flee,
when it erupts in disbelief,
when it's exposed and we let it be,
without its hold it has no meaning.

Jess "Chief" Brynjulson

#24. It took Descartes to deduce that God would not wish to deceive us. The world must be as it appears to be, the Frenchman deduced, because a perfect God would never wish to deceive us. Nothing has been explicable since.

Tim Parks

#25. So much of life is about attitude and how we handle what life throws our way. Life is good - even when a situation appears to be the worst.

David Cottrell

#26. I suppose if I wanted to be the girl next door, I could have been. I think America is confused by someone who appears to be sexual and spiritual at the same time.

Sally Kirkland

#27. The most elusive element of all, however, appears to be francium28, which is so rare that it is thought that our entire planet may contain, at any given moment, fewer than twenty francium atoms.

Bill Bryson

#28. Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

W. Somerset Maugham

#29. Sometimes I have thought that human misery goes far beyond human imagination, - imagination has its limits, and misery, like the vast seas, appears to be without end.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#30. There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.

J.K. Rowling

#31. Myself, I don't think you will ever get security in the Mideast until you have what on the surface appears to be fair to both sides. You have to have leaders committed to peace, on both sides. One side can't impose a solution.

Bobby Ray Inman

#32. What will happen in your life if you accept the invitation to stillness cannot be known ... what can be known is you will have a larger capacity to truly meet whatever appears.

Gangaji

#33. When God brings a time of waiting, and appears to be unresponsive, don't fill it with busyness, just wait.

Oswald Chambers

#34. They say that the moment your life appears before your eyes will be your last, but I'm here to say that it's not so very different when you kiss a woman like Kate, whoever your Kate may be.

Justin Cronin

#35. As soon as we confront concrete marriages with other foreign images-such as well-being, happiness, a home for children-marriage appears to be senseless, withered, moribund, and kept alive largely by a great apparatus of psychologists and marriage counselors. Marriage is dead. Long live marriage!

Adolf Guggenbhuhl-Craig

#36. Sometimes what appears to be a setback is God's mode of elevation.

Roderick L. Evans

#37. Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them.

Rudolf Steiner

#38. With a fixed mindset, you believe you are who you are and you cannot change. This creates problems when you're challenged because anything that appears to be more than you can handle is bound to make you feel hopeless and overwhelmed.

Travis Bradberry

#39. The perfect storm of occupational stress appears to be a combination of two factors: (1) a great deal is expected of you, and (2) you have no control over whether you will perform well.

John Medina

#40. The key, I suppose, to understanding the heart of a Bennet appears to be that one must catch them when they are out of their wits." Bingley said with a laugh.

Diana J. Oaks

#41. I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

Jim Morrison

#42. What appears to be a breakdown can often be a breakthrough ... IF you understand God's grace

Carl Lentz

#43. Try to be "good", you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the "nice good people" as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help ... When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late.

Paulo Coelho

#44. The summit of Mauna Kea should never have been developed as it is not safe for humans up there. I am now locked into an endless loop of doctors visits for what appears to be classic very high altitude heart, lung & brain damage because I was unfortunate enough to have worked there.

Steven Magee

#45. Ironically, really good work often appears to be effortless. People will say, "Why didn't I think of that?" They won't see the years of toil and sweat that went into it.

Austin Kleon

#46. The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy - man's tendency to actualize himself, to become his potentialities.

Carl R. Rogers

#47. I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#48. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive.

Noah Webster

#49. A woman has all too much substance in a man's eyes at the best of times. That is why men like women to be slim. Her lack of flesh negates her. The less of her there is, the less notice he need take of her. The more like a male she appears to be, the safer he feels.

Fay Weldon

#50. A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.

Aristotle.

#51. One thing appears reasonably certain, and that's that those who make allegations of a culture of deception, of intimidation or cover-up need to be extremely careful about such accusations.

Donald Rumsfeld

#52. It wasn't real. I deluded myself. I had this aching need to be loved and it was screwing with my head. Sometimes, when you crave certain feelings, you'll trick yourself into thinking the other person is something other than what he appears.

Ilona Andrews

#53. Even though the body appears to be material, it is not. In the deeper reality, your body is a field of energy, transformation and intelligence.

Deepak Chopra

#54. Taking a walk isn't really taking a walk, taking a shower isn't really taking a shower, living isn't living, and dying isn't dying. It only appears to be.

Frederick Lenz

#55. The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

Paul Tillich

#56. Your own self, your personality and existence are reflected within the mind of each of the people whom you meet, ... into a likeness, a caricature of yourself, which still lives on and appears to be, in some way, the truth about you. Even a flattering picture is ... a lie.

Isak Dinesen

#57. Of course there are depressing periods when nothing appears to be happening. But whenever anything was happening, and even when nothing was happening, it was fun just to do phage experiments.

Alfred Hershey

#58. You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#59. If you are a real writer, then just surrender to the writer's life, all of it, even the bad stuff. When you do that, the beauty appears: the peace, the meaning, the joy, the fulfillment, the sense that you are doing what you were born to do and what could be better, in the end, than that?

Lauren B. Davis

#60. Know that what appears to be Love for an 'other' is really Love of Self because 'other' doesn't exist. So this innermost Love can be given to no 'other'. Love of friends is for the sake of Self, not for body to body. True love has no Lover or Beloved because all Love is Love of Self.

H.W.L. Poonja

#61. If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

George Orwell

#62. One of Cezanne's unfinished paintings ... appears to be a completed work even though only a few strokes of paint have been put down. My methods are similar ... I expect each of my paintings to appear whole in every stage.

Christopher Willard

#63. Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.

Wallace Stevens

#64. Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance

Samuel Johnson

#65. It appears, from all that precedes, reasonably certain that if there be any relative motion between the earth and the luminiferous ether, it must be small; quite small enough entirely to refute Fresnel's explanation of aberration.

Albert A. Michelson

#66. [I]t is that we are too apt to despise what appears to be neither good nor beautiful, and thus we lose what is helpful and salutary.

George Sand

#67. If you don't understand what al Qaeda was trying to do on 9/11, if you don't have a sense of who Osama bin Laden is as a person, if you don't have a sense of what al Qaeda, the organization, was on 9/11, 9/11 appears to be more or less inexplicable.

Peter Bergen

#68. People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

Charles De Secondat

#69. North Korea. Not only does North Korean have nuclear weapons, but their leadership appears to not be rational.

Ted Lieu

#70. Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real

Plutarch

#71. You were a well-respected agent, Michael, a rags-to-riches fairytale ending. Until you became disgraced. Now it appears your own organization wishes to be rid of you. Why is this?"
"My gun turned back into a pumpkin.

Nenia Campbell

#72. Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past.

Susan Sontag

#73. I'm going to follow her, of course," Magiano says. "As the night sky turns. When she appears on the other side of the world, I will be there, and when she returns here, so will I.

Marie Lu

#74. Life can have significance even if it appears to be a series of failures.

Joseph Cornell

#75. There is no limit to the Law, but there appears to be a limit to man's understanding of It.

Ernest Holmes

#76. There is no medicine or other intervention that appears to be nearly as effective as exercise in maintaining or even bumping up a person's cognitive abilities.

Gretchen Reynolds

#77. The Giver's Fact: No matter what it appears to be, feedback information is almost totally about the giver, not the receiver.

Anonymous

#78. We have met on a solemn occasion, and in this crowded assembly there is one thing that appears important, that is, for every one of us to be still, that if any thing should he said, every one may the better hear.

Elias Hicks

#79. When confronted with someone who appears to be in a perpetual state of outrage, it is tempting for other people to wind them up. Besides, I have always found the most vociferous guardians of morality on matters of sex are those who aren't getting any.

M.C. Beaton

#80. I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic.

Flannery O'Connor

#81. When, at a closer glance, so many objects are questionable, when all knowledge seems to be clothed in a kind of deep unknowing, why do we still place any trust at all in reality as it appears to us, in the world in which we seem to live?

Markus Gabriel

#82. Everything I do in its essence is about helplessness. That's the story I want to tell all the time. It's the story I wanted to live - somebody who appears to be, or is, weak becoming stronger.

Joss Whedon

#83. There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.

Margaret Atwood

#84. A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties.

Pope Francis

#85. I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface ofthings. We think that that is which appears to be.

Henry David Thoreau

#86. The snow is lovely because it has only one colour, the sea is lovely because it appears to be a completely flat surface, but both sea and snow are deep and know their own qualities.

Paulo Coelho

#87. Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

Hannah Arendt

#88. Wisdom does not only reflect itself in a person's knowledge of what to say. It appears also in his knowledge about how to say it and when it should be said!

Israelmore Ayivor

#89. Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?

Plato

#90. Your inclination appears to be much as
it was last night."
Damen found himself saying, "You talk
the same in bed," and the words came
out sounding like he felt: helplessly
charmed.

C.S. Pacat

#91. To know and believe in God is the best thing that can happen in your life because He can turn what appears to be the worst event into the best. He can transform your struggles into your learning. He can turn your suffering into strength. He can use your failures to bring success.

Nick Vujicic

#92. [On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time.

Rosellen Brown

#93. We can schedule for it. Thursday, April 3rd, 3:05 ... start something. We can train for it, plan for it, announce it, and even hire for it. If initiating is as essential to the modern organization as it appears, we better be doing all of that and more.

Seth Godin

#94. When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

Richard Gere

#95. When perception of the physical world is limited to the five-sensory modality, the basis of life in the physical arena becomes fear. Power to control the environment, and those within the environment appears to be essential.

Gary Zukav

#96. Whenever socialism appears it destroys at least one thing: diversity. Everything has to be "the best", but in reality as we know best things are scarse.. Let me remind you again, that for the Reds, "best" things are these things that they consider "the best" for us, not these that we like!!

Janusz Korwin-Mikke

#97. In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city-except for bombing.

Assar Lindbeck

#98. Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into the atmosphere. And it appears to be speeding up. If science has made any mistakes, science has been underestimating it.

James Balog

#99. The intensity of the love of the upright is not so much to be judged by what it appears as by what the upright long for. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#100. I should have more faith. I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears to be opposed to a long train of deductions, it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation.

Arthur Conan Doyle