Appear Quotes

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.

I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours.

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph.

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

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

I'm not sleeping with all the women I appear with.

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

My experience with casting children is that... the whole movie is going to rest on their shoulders, so you have to set aside time and wait for the perfect people to appear.

Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.

I don't like the way I ever appear on TV.

When you suddenly appear on the scene and you are the new face, everything centers on you. I experienced this in my mid-20s and I found it rather hard.

A leader has to 'appear' consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.

These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen.

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

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.

I have my cards read every time I pass a tarot-reader booth. I would be so embarrassed to have one of those 900 numbers appear on my phone bill, because I don't know how I would explain it to my business manager. It would almost be like saying, 'Okay, I'm white trash.'

When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.