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  • Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work. -- Henryk Sienkiewicz
  • Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word. -- Eugenio Montale
  • I had to produce a complete page - or two or three - in one day. I took a lot of pride in my work, and I hated to do a mediocre job. Evidently, some of the writers enjoyed my work best of all for that very reason. -- Joe Shuster
  • Evidently, quality of wits is more important than quantity. -- Claudius
  • People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast. -- Sherwood Anderson
  • Are there quantitative aspects to the phenomena of war that can be counted? Evidently! -- Pitirim Sorokin
  • Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit. -- Ellen Glasgow
  • What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball. -- Pete Rose
  • There's a lot of things that there's misconceptions. Evidently it's a misconceptions that Americans believe that Muslims are terrorists. -- George W. Bush
  • Evidently we look so much alike that your desire to make an incurable dent in my hat must be excused. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book. -- Tom Robbins
  • I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Evidently, one thing seems to have more value in direct proportion to whether or not we feel we have the freedoms, joys or conveniences of that thing. -- David Brier
  • At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout. Such is our niche in the Universe. -- Eric Chaisson
  • Agrarian Anabaptists, Christian Scientists, and Samurai are among the rare examples of renunciation stemming from an unwillingness to sacrifice the spiritual qualities of community life. Evidently there is no separate salvation. -- Stephanie Mills
  • Researchers from Britain's Keele University have found that swearing after an injury may help alleviate pain. Evidently, the pain that you feel is inversely proportional to the number of middle names you give Jesus. -- Stephen Colbert
  • Shamu and I have arrived safely in Costa Rica. He was stopped by airport security because he carries enough artillery in his pants pockets to construct a sawed-off shotgun. Evidently, he though we were headed to Iraq. -- Chelsea Handler
  • Evidently an A level in English is a sacred trust, like something out of "The Lord of the Rings". You must go forth with your A level and protect the English language with your bow of elfin gold. -- Lynne Truss
  • She should have remembered her past experiences in the relationship wars and not let herself get so excited. Evidently her hormones had overruled her common sense and she had become drunk on ovarian wine, the most potent, sanity- destroying substance in the universe. -- Linda Howard
  • Scientists have determined that the most irritating sound to the human ear is the sound of a knife cutting a glass bottle. And the second-worst sound is a fork scratching a glass bottle. Evidently they did all their research at the Picnic for Morons. -- Peter Sagal
  • As president, Clinton sold burial plots in Arlington Cemetery and liberals shrugged it off. What really gets their goat is the autopen. Evidently, the important thing was that every one of those pardons Clinton sold for cash on his last day in office was signed by Bill Clinton personally. -- Ann Coulter
  • I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it. -- Garry Shandling
  • A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
  • It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner. -- Niklaus Wirth
  • The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery. -- Samuel Johnson
  • All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment. -- Irving Babbitt
  • In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing. -- Will Rogers
  • So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message. -- Thomas Dolby
  • Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship. -- Georg Simmel
  • Bollywood is huge. Anything that's made in large quantity will evidently overshadow others. But that won't stop artistes from making albums. A person who has faith in his music will go ahead. -- Kailash Kher
  • In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known. -- Thomas Malthus
  • The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell. -- Aleister Crowley
  • Our environments shape the way we see ourselves. If you have been condemned to live in an area that is pretty evidently a rat-run, then sooner or later you're gonna come to the conclusion that you're a rat. -- Alan Moore
  • The tree was evidently aged, from the size of its stem. It was about six feet high, the branches came out from the stem in a regular and symmetrical manner, and it had all the appearance of a tree in miniature. -- Robert Fortune
  • I've been intrigued by politics my whole life. And, yes, I am very close to the Clintons. I was a Hillary person until I was an Obama person. And she was a Hillary person, too, until she was an Obama one, evidently. -- Kevin Spacey
  • Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise. -- Jules Verne
  • Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted. -- Aristotle
  • Poetry is evidently a contagious complaint. -- Washington Irving
  • But who is stronger than death? Me , evidently . -- Ted Hughes
  • You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood. -- Hector Hugh Munro
  • A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
  • My shirt got torn in a fight. Yours evidently has a fast-release tab. -- Rachel Vincent
  • Men are not nearly as evolved as women are, nor as intelligent, evidently -- Sarah MacLean
  • Many presidents have believed in God, but Donald Trump evidently believes that he is God. -- Michael R. Burch
  • Self-evidently, dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking. -- Mike Hulme
  • A man who relentlessly perspires to be excellent evidently inspires many with his intelligence and elegance. -- Anuj
  • The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts. -- Aristotle
  • Governor Dean has no policy on Iraq evidently, except 'no.' 'No' is not a policy. -- John F. Kerry
  • No, evidently habit means a lot. The devil knows what habit can do to a person. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth. -- Thomas Browne
  • He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into. -- Alice Munro
  • Dogs who chase cars evidently see them as large, unruly ungulates badly in need of discipline and shepherding. -- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
  • Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities. -- Thomas Keating
  • All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil -- Samuel Johnson
  • There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it. -- Blaise Pascal
  • It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs. -- Aristotle
  • Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else. -- Aristotle
  • God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished. -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  • No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Why do you hang out with him?" "We're teammates." Ahhh. And if blood was thicker than water, then football, evidently, would congeal in one's veins. -- Rachel Vincent
  • It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902. -- Jelly Roll Morton
  • The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else. But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share. -- Charlaine Harris
  • One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education. -- Jane Jacobs
  • As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first. -- Pliny the Elder
  • She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate. -- Edith Wharton
  • By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds. -- Francesco Guicciardini
  • Christianity had never been more itself, more consistent with Jesus and more evidently en route to its own future, than in the launching of the world mission. -- Ben F. Meyer
  • Feeling good and feeling bad are not necessarily opposites. Both at least involve feelings. Any feeling is a reminder of life. The worst 'feeling' evidently is non-feeling. -- Willard Gaylin
  • The two of them simply weren't attracted to just any attractive, eligible man; they were attracted rarely, but when it happened, it was evidently a life-altering experience. -- Judith McNaught
  • (True,) the white hole said. (My name is Khairelikoblepharehglukumeilichephreidosd'enagouni-) and at the same time he went flickering through a pattern of colors that was evidently the visual translation. -- Diane Duane
  • There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers about B. F. Skinner. -- Jacob Bronowski
  • I would rather live in a country where children are protected and their predators prosecuted, and even (which in Hollywood is evidently not always the same thing) disapproved of. -- Roman Polanski
  • A self-evidently confident politician, Cameron still suffers from a curious hollowness. Ten years after he became Conservative leader, many people still question what he actually stands for or believes in. -- Douglas Alexander
  • Healthcare reform is a paradigmatic case. It is self-evidently necessary and inevitable and has been on the agenda for 35 years, and the political class seems completely unable to respond to it. -- Tony Judt
  • I should ask if it was good for you," Miles murmured, "but given that evidently you acquired the answer to life, the universe, and everything, it must have been-excuse the word-cosmic. -- Rowan Speedwell
  • No one, evidently, except me has found "No Alarms" poem ironical that an obsessive theme in my writing was - and has continued to be - not being able to write. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
  • The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else. -- Aristotle
  • Spiders evidently as surprised by the weather as the rest of us: their webs were still everywhere - little silken laundry lines with perfect snowflakes hung out in rows to dry. -- Leslie Land
  • They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls. -- D. H. Lawrence
  • Kincaid, evidently exhausted himself, drew a gun, took the safety off, placed it on his chest, and went to sleep too. "It's cute," I whispered to Murphy. "He has a teddy Glock. -- Jim Butcher
  • You evidently do not suffer from "quotation-hunger" as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as I always want to know where a quotation comes from. -- Lewis Carroll
  • She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life. -- Rebecca West
  • Jesus evidently hates it when we tear into our brothers or sisters with demeaning words, words that fail to honor the people around us as the beautiful image-bearing creatures that they are. -- Francis Chan
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  • Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the games played by the leading masters during the last 15-20 years. -- Jose Raul Capablanca
  • We are evidently no friends of Satan. Like the kings of this world, he wars not against his own subjects. The very fact that he assaults us should fill our minds with hope. -- J. C. Ryle
  • I always try to push myself, even more now because evidently I'm not doing something right. I'm trying to do the little things that count in practice to try and get my job back. -- Rajon Rondo
  • There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ``the good life,'' which had not been anticipated in our philosophy. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
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