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Quotes About Apparent

Most evangelicals have bought into the need for apparent indifference when writing about massively important things.
~ John Piper
Our epoch will be marked by the romanticism of the stateless. Already apparent is the image of a universe in which no one will have droit de cité. Inside every citizen nowadays lies a future alien.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Patient genius is constantly detecting order in apparent chaos ... and when this happens, by all means rearrange your map of the universe accordingly. But do not argue that chaos is therefore non-existent.
~ balfour arthur james ii
I think it's pretty apparent who my favorites are because I keep coming back to them. At the top of that list would be Harry Bosch, who's now going on 20 years of literary life. I still like him the best because there's still a lot to say about him.
~ Michael Connelly
The negative effects of greedy politicians have haunted the north-east for years; it's very apparent.
~ Sam Fender
There are no hidden depths to me.
~ Charles Saatchi
Further, the order noted, "It is apparent to the Court that Wife must ultimately take some responsibility for contributing to her own support …
~ Bella Stumbo
Why does man boast of sensibilities superior to those apparent in the brute; it only renders them more necessary beings.
~ Mary Shelley
why does man boast of sensibilities superior to those apparent in the brute; it only renders them more necessary beings. If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows, and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. To the apparent surprise of many in the room, I observed publicly that insider trading appeared to be rampant.
~ Preet Bharara
Asking what is the cause, is just as bizarre as asking what is the cause of not having an accident. Accidents have their basis in the real complexity of the system, not their apparent simplicity.
~ Sidney Dekker
Even when the underlying motive of purchase is mere speculative greed, human nature desires to conceal this unlovely impulse behind a screen of apparent logic and good sense
~ Benjamin Graham
to a great extent, the uncertainty of philosophy is more apparent than real: those questions which are already capable of definite answers are placed in the sciences, while those only to which, at present, no definite answer can be given, remain to form the residue which is called philosophy.
~ Bertrand Russell
La strategia è la via del paradosso. Così, chi è abile, si mostri maldestro; chi è utile, si mostri inutile. Chi è affabile, si mostri scostante; chi è scostante, si mostri affabile.
~ Sun Tzu
When the Bolsheviks came to power they were soft and easy with their enemies... we had begun by making a mistake. Leniency towards such a power was a crime against the working classes. That soon became apparent...
~ Joseph Stalin
The fun had been so bland, so lightly handled, that its essential quality, its ruthlessness, had not been apparent.
~ Josephine Tey
Plain as a nose in a man's face.
~ Francois Rabelais
before it became apparent how thin though highly valuable a layer of liberalism had been. With it conciliation disappeared from public political life, interests hit hard against interests, and the struggle began.
~ Stefan Zweig
I want to introduce you to Jay, a 'bus-conductor and an idealist. She is not the heroine, but the most constantly apparent woman in this book. I cannot introduce you to a heroine because I have never met one.
~ Stella Benson
He was through with this conversation. As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like How sane are we? and Do our lives have meaning? The need for avoidance was acute and apparent to both of them.
~ Michael Chabon
I think my intention was there, and my love for the music was apparent. And there are very few singers who get up and desire to take the kinds of risks that jazz musicians routinely need to be taking.
~ Kurt Elling
The law does not require that to be proved which is apparent to the court.'
~ Justin Cronin
Now I ask you, will this be an easy or a difficult negotiation? Most people in our culture would say difficult. Why? Because of the great imbalance in information, apparent time pressure, and perceived power.
~ Herb Cohen
Perhaps it's an accident of nationality, but the English treasure subtlety and appreciate not having everything spelled out for them, while Americans want everything made apparent.
~ Tim Pigott-Smith