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  • All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have. -- Daniel Defoe
  • My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films. -- Jackie Chan
  • Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. -- Mary Shelley
  • The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history. -- Billy Graham
  • Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. -- Arnold J. Toynbee
  • It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious. -- Esther Williams
  • The thing with darts players is they have always appeared available. They don't have to live like monks. I've only ever met one dry player in 35 years. -- Sid Waddell
  • Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the dead and appeared to them. -- Josh McDowell
  • I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married, I now value as serenity. -- Ayelet Waldman
  • We found vines of a large size, and in some cases quite loaded with grapes; we also found an abundance of roses, which appeared to be like those of Castile. -- Junipero Serra
  • Of all Americans who have appeared on the nation's postage stamps, Ayn Rand is probably the only one to have thought that the United States government has no business delivering mail. -- Thomas Mallon
  • Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom. -- William Bartram
  • When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated. -- Rem Koolhaas
  • The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes. -- Max Weber
  • During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago. -- Norman Borlaug
  • History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness. -- Terence McKenna
  • Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama. -- John Roberts
  • I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels. -- Rita Dove
  • At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers. -- Salman Rushdie
  • No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. -- Hannah Arendt
  • It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world. -- Arthur Helps
  • Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't. -- Joan Didion
  • In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage. -- Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it. -- Adelbert von Chamisso
  • People have had certain assumptions in the past about Conservative governments, partly because of some of the things that happened in the 1980s, and partly because of the tone of some of the debate in the 1980s that appeared to say public spending on the arts was something you might want to progressively reduce. -- Jeremy Hunt
  • Jacques Doillon wanted me to be in his film, 'La Fille Prodigue,' and there I was, expecting, for some reason, this great bearded man, when a splendid looking red-Indian style man appeared at my door. I said no to his film because I knew that if I said yes, I would run off with him. -- Jane Birkin
  • I've appeared on some other people's albums. -- Gerry Mulligan
  • I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980 -- Julian Bond
  • Nevada appeared to be a firewall for Hillary Clinton. -- Renee Montagne
  • Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do. -- Robert Genn
  • A star appeared...and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement. -- William Golding
  • Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans. -- Elizabeth Hardwick
  • Goering appeared at times to be all things to all men. -- Richard Overy
  • I can do anything. In GQ, I appeared as a man. -- Boy George
  • Death is turning out the lamp because the dawn has appeared. -- Rabindranath Tagore
  • Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere. -- Barry Bostwick
  • Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory. -- Haruki Murakami
  • Newspapers appeared like oracles on your doorstep- gilded fragments of anonymous love." -- Susan Rich
  • No matter how smart she appeared, she was fragile at her core. -- Mitch Albom
  • ... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance. -- Ellen Glasgow
  • Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement. -- Max Beckmann
  • The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society. -- Karl Marx
  • I have not know a worthy son to whom his mother appeared ugly. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago. -- Andrew Denton
  • The hardest thing was to give meaning to what appeared to have none. -- Tatjana Soli
  • In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story. -- George Barr McCutcheon
  • Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter. -- Josh McDowell
  • If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen. -- Bette Davis
  • Through persistence numerous individuals win accomplishment out of what appeared bound to be sure disappointment. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • Marvel movies, are seeming slightly less exciting now that Star Wars has appeared and everything. -- Mark Millar
  • When I was young and beautiful, I never appeared on the cover of a magazine. -- Simone Signoret
  • The clouds appeared and went away, and in a while they did not try anymore. -- John Steinbeck
  • Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides. -- O. Henry
  • Dracula appeared at a time of great technological revolution, utilizing telegraphs, typing machines, and blood transfusions. -- Chuck Hogan
  • Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable. -- Mary McCarthy
  • Embarrassingly for Obama, it appeared that his administration had jumped the gun on banning the bullets. -- John R. Lott Jr.
  • The inhabitants of Canada appeared to be suffering between two fires,--the soldiery and the priesthood. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it. -- Baron de Montesquieu
  • Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. -- Alice Walker
  • Jesus appeared unto the ancient Nephites, in the northern part of what we call South America... -- Orson Pratt
  • My downfall made a great noise: those who appeared most satisfied criticized the manner of it. -- François-René de Chateaubriand
  • ...now and then a giggling trail of mermaids appeared in our wake. We fed them oatmeal. -- Tove Jansson
  • When I appeared in 'Coronation Street,' I lived in Manchester and enjoyed it very much. -- Ian Mckellen
  • In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared. -- Zhu Rongji
  • Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow. -- Louis Kronenberger
  • Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared. -- Sergio Leone
  • Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table. -- Willa Cather
  • Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did. -- Ray Bradbury
  • The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects. -- Edward Gibbon
  • Looking back we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings. -- Dan Millman
  • In the middle of my heart, a star appeared, and the seven heavens were lost in its brilliance. -- Rumi
  • Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof. -- J.R. Ward
  • but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence. -- Leo Tolstoy
  • The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared. -- Gary Shteyngart
  • A horse's hindquarters appeared at the door, the horse backing slowly down a rampBuckwheat!" Emily squealedYou bringed my horsie!" -- Pamela Clare
  • I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two. -- William Shatner
  • Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G. -- Lionel
  • How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared? -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The universe now appeared to me as a void wherein floated rare flakes of snow, each flake a universe. -- Olaf Stapledon
  • Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career. -- Howard Keel
  • The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past. -- George Orwell
  • Another door swung open, and another guard appeared, this time with Gabrielle, who wore a black catsuit and rappelling harness. -- Ally Carter
  • When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card. -- Michele Bachmann
  • The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence. -- Elie Metchnikoff
  • To say God spake or appeared as he is in his own nature, is to deny his Infiniteness, Invisibility, Incomprehensibility. -- Thomas Hobbes
  • The last thing we wanted was for the Machiguenga to be sad again. Sadness appeared to bring out their violence. -- Tahir Shah
  • There's no basis or anything. I just have this conviction that appeared inside of me which I have to follow. -- Jun Mochizuki
  • Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature. -- Ellen Glasgow
  • Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day. -- Tammara Webber
  • The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it. -- Franz Kafka
  • My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg. -- Samantha Bond
  • Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous! -- John Suckling
  • Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones. -- Pitirim Sorokin
  • My life has appeared unclothed in court, detail by detail, death-bone witness by death-bone witness, and I was shamed at the verdict.... -- Anne Sexton
  • The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation. -- David Hume
  • Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory. -- Theodor Adorno
  • Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory. -- Theodor Adorno
  • The words, 'penalty,' 'restrict' and 'violate' appeared more times in President Clinton's health care reform bill than in his crime bill. -- Steve Forbes
  • The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward. -- Igor Sikorsky
  • One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them. -- Benjamin Carson
  • Imagination is our ability to see inwardly and picture there that which has not yet appeared outwardly. Imagination is God's gift to us. -- Donald Curtis
  • Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be. -- Nelson Mandela
  • They say God appeared in history and used it for his purposes, but if that was so he had no pity for men. -- Bernard Malamud
  • The Queen has been guillotined, accused of crimes beyond imagining. Last night she appeared to me in a dream, handing me her head. -- Sandra Gulland
  • Here's something to think about: If God appeared to you and asked, "Why should I let you into heaven?" how would you answer? -- Andy Stanley
  • Precious was one of a large number of people on the street, many of whom appeared to be women; some, like Precious, actually were. -- Jimmy Breslin
  • Nothing you see on the Internet is mine unless it comes from one of my albums, books, HBO specials, or appeared on my website. -- George Carlin
  • When synchronised swimming first appeared on TV, we laughed very heartily, and I, for one, applauded the decision to introduce humour into the Olympics. -- Arthur Smith
  • Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity new-found; now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought, and magic sound. -- Alexander Pushkin
  • In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book -- Hattie McDaniel
  • Any moment now..." The girl [Calypso] stared out at the water. No magical raft appeared. "Maybe it got stuck in a traffic," Leo said. -- Rick Riordan
  • She scowled at him until a light appeared in her intelligent eyes, as if she had had an epiphany. "Are you an illegal alien? -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • I burned through all of my extra lives in a matter of minutes, and my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER. -- Ernest Cline
  • Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. -- Mary Shelley
  • In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth. -- James Harvey Robinson
  • Wallis," said his master dreamily when his man appeared again, "I want some more real clothes. Tired of sleeping-suits. Get me some, please. Good night. -- Margaret Widdemer
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