Palpably Quotes

#1. We are asked now seriously to accept that in the last few years-contrary to all history, contrary to all intelligence-Saddam decided unilaterally to destroy those weapons. I say that such a claim is palpably absurd.

Tony Blair

#2. I'm in the moment. I'm always in the moment of life.

Jenifer Lewis

#3. We could build entire cities out of the stories of loneliness.

Hannah Brencher

#4. Believing passionately in the palpably not true ... is the chief occupation of mankind.

H.L. Mencken

#5. How do men become manly, if not by putting it on as an act until it becomes habit and then, finally, their character?

Orson Scott Card

#6. He's dancing with the devil in pale moonlight

Matthew Dicks

#7. This book was born as I was hungry. Let m eexplain.

Yann Martel

#8. God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. As soon as I'm on the road, I see, often palpably, that I know nothing at all, which is always a great liberation.

Pico Iyer

#10. DUMB AUTUMN SMELLS. The
marguerite, unbroken, passed
between home and chasm through
your memory.
A strange lostness was
palpably present, almost
you would have lived.

Paul Celan

#11. The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

H.L. Mencken

#12. It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#13. Yes, I'm a Pastor of a church called Understand Principles for Better Living Church, in Los Angeles, CA.

Della Reese

#14. If you can't save yourself from attack by being powerful - and I, palpably, have no power. My hands are empty - then perhaps you can save yourself from attack by being ruined, instead. Blow yourself up before the enemy gets to you.

Caitlin Moran

#15. The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think they ought to. It is thus, like poetry and religion, a device for gladdening the heart with what is palpably not true.

H.L. Mencken

#16. The Gmail app is definitely the app I use the most. I am always running from meeting to meeting, so it keeps me up-to-date with everything going on. I actually e-mail more often from my iPhone than my laptop, so having a nicely designed e-mail app is really important.

Leah Busque

#17. this was a man palpably simulating crying, which made the moment at once awkward, surreal, and quite disturbing. Our

Jon Ronson

#18. Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought.

Annie Besant

#19. Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

Ian Rankin

#20. God was palpably present in the country, and the devil had gone with the world to town.

Thomas Hardy

#21. The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale.

Richard Selzer

#22. The teeth! - the teeth! - they were here, and there, and everywhere, and visibly and palpably before me; long, narrow, and excessively white, with the pale lips writhing about them, as in the very moment of their first terrible development.

Edgar Allan Poe

#23. Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

Mark Twain

#24. Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches up magnificently-and a good half of it is palpably useless.

H.L. Mencken

#25. Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.

Augustus William Hare

#26. When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.

Alan Greenspan

#27. [ ... ] to catch those unrecorded gestures, those unsaid or half-said words, which form themselves, no more palpably than the shows of moths on the ceiling, when women are alone, unlit by the capricious and coloured light of the other sex.

Virginia Woolf