#apparent

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. ↗

— John Updike

#author #because #been #choices #door

The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#apparent #becomes #coalition #coalition forces #criticized

Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#apparently #being #between #broad #changed

When you're in love, you've found your soul mate, you think life is going one way, and suddenly it's completely apparent it's not. You have to rethink your whole purpose. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#completely #found #going #life #love

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#apparently #doing #duty #else #unfitted

The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#apparent #defense #democracy #failures #forces

Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#any #apparent #becoming #cannot #done

The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian. ↗

— Jeff Goldblum

#apparently #original #russian #settlers #were

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust? ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#ask #bible #cannot #certainty #decay

Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#apparently #day #devoid #earth #naturally