Appearing Quotes

• Into each life some rain must fall.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Rain, Fall

  "The Rainy Day" st. 3 (1842)

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• The teaching of the buddhas is: Find time and a place to remain unoccupied. That's what meditation is all about. Find at least one hour every day to sit silently doing nothing, utterly unoccupied, just watching whatsoever passes by inside. In the beginning you will be very sad, looking at things inside you; you will feel only darkness and nothing else, and ugly things and all kinds of black holes appearing. You will feel agony, no ecstasy at all. But if you persist, persevere, the day comes when all these agonies disappear, and behind the agonies is the ecstasy.

  Rajneesh

  Teaching, Agony, Ugly Things

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• Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

  Sun Tzu

  Life, Strength, Wisdom

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• The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Fear, Weakness, Too Much

  "Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture". Book by Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, edited by Patrick Riley, 1990.

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• Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Dalai Lama, Sofia Stril-Rever (2010). “My Spiritual Journey”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Education, Wisdom

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• No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.

  George Boole

  Beautiful, Giving, May

  "Comic sections: the book of mathematical jokes, humour, and wisdom". Book by Des MacHale, p. 107, 1993.

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• The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  Tired, Evil, Easy

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• Whatever we refuse to recognize about ourselves has a way of rearing its head and making itself known when we least expect it.

  Debbie Ford

  Inspirational, Unmasking, Way

  Debbie Ford (2011). “Dark Side of the Light Chasers: Reclaiming your power, creativity, brilliance, and dreams”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Friendship, Wise, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from May 18, 2015

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• We try to remember that medicine is for the patient. We try never to forget that medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits. The profits follow, and if we have remembered that, they have never failed to appear. The better we have remembered it, the larger they have been.

  George W. Merck

  Medicine, People, Trying

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• Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Desire, Natural

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• I stopped appearing as Dracula in 1972 because in my opinion the presentation of the character had deteriorated to such an extent, particularly bringing him into the contemporary day and age, that it really no longer had any meaning.

  Christopher Lee

  Character, Age, Opinion

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't like my thighs, the back of my legs or my chubby knees. I wear clothes that show off my legs in pictures and videos but not often when I'm appearing live.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Clothes, Video, Legs

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

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• At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

  Richard Russo

  Writing, Thinking, Risk

  "Failbetter" Interview, www.failbetter.com.

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• I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

  Amy Winehouse

  Vulnerable, Frightened

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• The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

  Emile Zola

  Fear, Fate, Animal

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• I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.

  Lawrence Welk

  Order, Practice, Band

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1971). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• Texting is addicting. Once you get emotionally involved with constant outside stimulation assaulting your brain, it is hard to stop looking at your machine every two minutes. Without rapid fire words appearing on a screen, you feel bored, not part of the action.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Fire, Two, Bored

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• When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Character, Years, Done

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. July, 2003.

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• Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Rain, Fall, States

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• Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs.

  Matthew Lesko

  Educational, Book, Night

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• Once you get past the grand normative claims made in the West for literature, especially the novel, in the post-Christian era - that it is a secular substitute for religion, hallmark of modern civilization, a priori liberal and cosmopolitan, with authors appearing to implicitly embody such pious ideals - you encounter a less agreeable reality: parochialism, blinkered views, even racial prejudices of the kind the bourgeoisie have held everywhere.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Christian, Past, Reality

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Vision, Spirit

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• We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

  Michael Fassbender

  Silly, Mean, Pressure

  "What's a nice boy like Michael Fassbender doing in a film like Shame?". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

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