#appear

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#also #believed #children #desire #disappears

So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#basket #certainly #court #decision #eggs

Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#arranged #beings #communicate #down #fingers

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#absolutely #appears #course #disappearance #ends

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#been #commission #contrary #could #crime

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. ↗

— Aristotle

#appearance #apprehensive #believing #consider #devotion

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#clothes #greatly #his #improve #made

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#injury #itself #reject #sense #your

And then there's also this element of - some people would describe it as spirits or a presence that appears when things are very difficult, physically and emotionally. You know, when you're really putting out. So the third man aura is sort of an appearance. It's the yeti. ↗

— Ann Bancroft

#appearance #appears #aura #describe #difficult

High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#fails #getting #getting old #high-level #i