To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

Whenever I run out of people to write about, I cook up a few ghosts, or they appear before me.

I don't think Mourinho wants to have friends, or maybe that's just the way he likes to appear.

If the mind is calm, your spontaneity and honest thoughts appear. You become more spontaneous.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

If we're evaluating cool to the way other rappers appear to be cool, then I'm not cool at all.

I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts.

If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.

When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.

One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.

The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.

It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

Not Going Out's jokes were based on the American mentality in terms of how often the jokes appear.

There really is no Johnny Carson anymore. There is no one place a comedian can appear and explode.

Entrepreneurs, guys that start businesses, grow with them. It's more painful than it would appear.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

When I was on the London assembly it was quite common for government ministers to refuse to appear.

Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.

The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.

I think I appear very innocent and soft, but I'm actually very dark and edgy. It's a weird dichotomy.

In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple.

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

The last thing I want to appear is remotely jaded or bitter, which it could come across the wrong way.

It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

I think chess players are not always what you think them to be. Or maybe it's our job to appear serious.

Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.

When you smile, you don't only appear to be more likable and courteous, you appear to be more competent.

The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.

The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.

Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.

I'd lied many times: to bolster my credentials, to elicit sympathy, to make myself appear less ordinary.

The most important advice you can give anyone about to appear on TV is incredibly prosaic - be yourself.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

We don't give importance to Page 3 or to appear at all the events. Our focus is on our kids and our home.

The proper eyebrows can balance wide cheekbones or make the length of the face appear more proportionate.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

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