Appeals Quotes

• I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Sex, Blue Dress

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  There is more to sex appeal than just measurements

  Audrey Hepburn

  Sex, Measurement, Contrary To Popular Belief

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• We don't to be some kind of rock supergroup for the sake of being a supergroup. You want to change things and say something fresh and new so you appeal to people as a new group.

  Peter Hook

  Rocks, People, Groups

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• This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

  Lionel Barrymore

  Age, Sincerity, Century

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal.

  Pierre Laval

  Order, Europe, May

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• The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing.

  Edwin Meese

  Decision, Judgment, Accepting

  United States. Dept. of Justice, Edwin Meese (1989). “Major Policy Statements of the Attorney General: Edwin Meese III, 1985-1988”

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• An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Court

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• A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests.

  Alma Gluck

  Advice, Want, Students

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• This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.

  Walter Lang

  Pride, Idaho, May

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• The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.

  Ella Maillart

  Confidence, Dream, Usual

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• No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

  Andre Breton

  Example, Vain, Good Examples

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• I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Religious, Motherhood

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.72, A&C Black

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• The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Strong Women, Heart

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• I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Sex, Rain, Apples

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• Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

  Bertrand Russell

  Exercise, Liberty, Principles

  Bertrand Russell (1960). “Sceptical Essays”

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• In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

  Jacques Barzun

  Principles, Splits, Way

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• Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.

  Alan Rickman

  Misfits, Maverick, Passive

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• Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Children, Mean, College

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• It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.

  Garrett Hardin

  Running, Mistake, Thinking

  Garrett James Hardin (1995). “The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons”, F A I R-Federation for American Immigration Reform

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• The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

  Walter Lippmann

  Public Opinion, Citizens, Comeback

  Walter Lippmann (2007). “Public Opinion”, p.368, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

  Jules Renard

  Truth, Power, Shock

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• Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

  John Cleese

  Wine, Thinking, Experts

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• The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.

  Christopher Lasch

  Children, News, Demand

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics”, p.520, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

  Ida B. Wells

  Men, White Man, Pockets

  Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2014). “On Lynchings”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others.

  Freddie Mercury

  Convince, Presentation

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