#apparent

The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions. ↗

— Edward Forbes

#chain #equal #exceptions #faith #hold

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#because #bought #boy #dad #fault

I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war. ↗

— George Galloway

#am #apparent #children #desire #devastating

Anytime you have a reelection campaign against an incumbent president and you're the party out of power - on the one hand it's wide open because there's not an heir apparent - but people are also gauging how strong is that incumbent president and what are my chances. ↗

— Bob McDonnell

#also #anytime #apparent #because #campaign

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. ↗

— Herman Melville

#helplessly #impossible #oneself #open #talk

The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#apparent #arranged #atomic #elements #exhibit

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#because #come #earth #heaven #kingdom

It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder. ↗

— Bob Ney

#affairs #apparently #bidder #bureaucrat #criminal

She sighed. Loudly. "Physical appearance is not what is important." Yeah right. Tell that to any girl who hasn't bothered to put on a presentable shirt or fix her hair because she's only running into the grocery store to get a quart of milk for her grandmother, and who does she see tending the 7-ITEMS-OR-LESS cash register but the guy of her dreams, except she can't even say hi- much less try to develop a meaningful relationship- since she looks like the poster child for the terminally geeky. ↗

— Vivian Vande Velde

#funny #geek #girls #heir-apparent #dreams

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#confidence #contradictory #humility #preacher #qualities