#appear

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#civilizations #collapsed #history #moral #nineteen

Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#behind #disappear #happens #interpreter #longer

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#comes #down #elements #going #i

Truth disappears with the telling of it. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#telling #truth

Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#appears #base #challenges #constituency #core

I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#actually #am #appears #completely #deal

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#behavior #cease #ceases #individual #intelligent

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#animal #animal world #appears #human #human language

It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that's out creating good stuff has got to appreciate someone when they take the time to have an appearance that goes with what they're doing. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#appreciate #creating #culture #doing #goes

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#devil #his #horns #talk