#appear

To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation. ↗

— J. F. C. Fuller

#annihilation #appears #because #bombing #damage

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. ↗

— Boy George

#gentle #him #like #penetrates #person

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit. ↗

— George III

#bringing #colonies #country #due #left

I am not what I appear – I am much shallower than that. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #shallowness #funny

But beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty - it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life - froze it. One forgot the little agitations; the flush, the pallor, some queer distortion, some light or shadow, which made the face unrecognisable for a moment and yet added quality one saw for ever after. It was simpler to smooth that all out under the cover of beauty. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#beauty #beauty

Hear what I say, and not how I look." ~R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods

There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'" "The mood will pass, sir. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#bad-mood #clothes #dejection #humor #humor

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer. ↗

— Nat Turner

#avoided #devoting #discovered #fasting #great

It isn't the happy ending Ingrid and I had dreamed up, but it's all a part of what I'm working through. The way life changes. The way people and things disappear. Then appear, unexpectedly, and hold you close. ↗

— Nina LaCour

#disappear #happy-ending #inspiration #life #love

Love is an emotion which does not die it disappears. ↗

— Amit Abraham

#disappear #emotion #love #romance-love #love