Appearing Quotes - Page 8

• When school friends would think about appearing on stage as the most frightening, the most awful, intimidating experience ever, I knew that it was something I could do.

  Hugh Laurie

  School, Thinking, Awful

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• To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers' ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame.

  John Gabriel Stedman

  Self, Ideas, Feelings

  John Gabriel Stedman (1806). “Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam: In Guiana ... from the Year 1772 to 1777 ; Elucidating the History of that Country and Describing Its Productions, Viz. Quadrupeds, Birds, [etc.] Trees, Shrubs, [etc.] with an Account of the Indians and Negroes of Guinea”, p.196

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• Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fear, Pride, Vanity

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.168, Cambridge University Press

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• It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Integrity, Distance, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.391, Modern Library

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• Those who are overreached by our cunning are far from appearing to us as ridiculous as we appear to ourselves when the cunning of others has overreached us.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ridiculous, Cunning

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• The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Character, Reason, Wit

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• I was so excited to be able to say that I was a lesbian that I would shake hands with strangers on the street and say, 'Hi! I'm Sally Gearhart and I'm a lesbian.' Once, appearing on a panel program, I began, 'I'm Sally Lesbian and I'm a gearhart!' I realized then that I had put too much of my identity into being lesbian.

  Sally Miller Gearhart

  Hands, Identity, Able

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• irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

  John Updike

  Cake, Way, Irony

  John Updike (2012). “Always Looking: Essays on Art”, p.328, Knopf

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• He willeth to be perceived; and His appearing shall be swiftly sudden; and He willeth to be trusted. For He is full gracious and homely: Blessed may He be!

  Julian of Norwich

  Blessed, May, Gracious

  Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• I am of course getting angry if biologists try to use the general concept 'chance' in order to explain phenomena which are so typical for living organisms as, for instance, those appearing in the biological evolution.

  Wolfgang Paul

  Order, Trying, Typical

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• Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.

  Aristotle

  Character, Mean, Three

  Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1833). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.12

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• If I were but sure that I should live to see the coming of the Lord, it would be the joyfulest tidings in the world. O that I might see His kingdom come! It is the characteristic of His saints to love His appearing, and to look for that blessed hope. "The Spirit and the bride say, Come." "Even so, come, Lord Jesus."

  Richard Baxter

  Jesus, Blessed, Saint

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 102, 1895.

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• The cost of appearing with a bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me. Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.

  George Will

  Cost, Enough, Lows

  "George Will Calls Donald Trump a 'Bloviating Ignoramus'". abcnews.go.com. May 27, 2012.

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• I've got three sons, and two of them would absolutely hate being on the stage and never liked appearing in their school plays or musicals, but the middle one absolutely loves it and never shows any sign of nerves or pressure and really gets a kick out of performing. I think it depends entirely on the child. And that applies to anything whether it's sport or entertainment or music or film.

  Piers Morgan

  Sports, Children, Hate

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• The concept of 'measurement' becomes so fuzzy on reflection that it is quite surprising to have it appearing in physical theory at the most fundamental level ... does not any analysis of measurement require concepts more fundamental than measurement? And should not the fundamental theory be about these more fundamental concepts?

  John Stewart Bell

  Reflection, Doe, Analysis

  "Quantum Gravity". Book by Dennis William Sciama, p. 611. "Quantum Mechanics for Cosmologists", 1981.

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• Sometimes an actor performs a character, but sometimes an actor just performs. With writing, I don't think it's performing a character, really, if the character you're performing is yourself. I don't see that as playing a role. It's just appearing in public.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Sheila Heti, www.believermag.com. December, 2011.

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• Real life, raising kids and trying to raise them to be good people takes a lot of work. It's all about (appearing) effortless, yet there's so much effort. You do it the best you can.

  Kelli Williams

  Real, Kids, People

  "Kelli Williams talks about starring in UP TV’s first scripted series (updated)". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. August 2015.

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• The lovers, appearing happy, walk, holding hands. Though it appears everything is perfect, only they know the truth.

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Hands, Perfect, Lovers

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• Norms appearing in the form of law entitle actors to exercise their rights or liberties. However, one cannot determine which of these laws are legitimate simply by looking at the form of individual rights. Only by bringing in the discourse principle can one show that each person is owed a right to the greatest possible measure of equal liberties that are mutually compatible.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Exercise, Rights, Law

  "Between Facts and Norms". Book by Jürgen Habermas, 1992.

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• If you and I shall, like the believing shepherds, watch and long for His appearing, one day we, too, shall hear a music grander and sweeter even than the song of angels, when the great Composer shall transpose all the strains of earth from the minor into the major, when the wail of nature shall give way to the glad harmony of the everlasting jubilee.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Song, Believe, Angel

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 555, 1895.

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• I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War... If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what's called a detail.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  War, Book, Two

  Jean-Marie Le Pen's statement in Munich, December 5, 1997.

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• The green shoots of economic spring are appearing once again.

  Norman Lamont

  Spring, Green, Economic

  "Chancellor still aiming for 20p tax rate" by Nikki Knewstubb, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 1991.

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• Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.

  Quentin Crisp

  Humor, Getting What You Want, Way

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• There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Done, Chance

  Samuel Johnson (1854). “Lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works. With notes by P. Cunningham”, p.233

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• There is an intimate connection between the life of the Christian here and the enjoyment and the glory in the day of Christ's appearing.

  George Muller

  Christian, Connections, Glory

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