Privilege is least apparent to those who have it.
Human progress planned as alternatives (to God's plan) introduce in justice, evil and violence rising against the divine plan of justice and salvation. And despite transitory and apparent successes, they are reduced to simple machinations destined to dissolution and failure.
I will achieve in my life - Heaven grant that it be not long - some gigantic amalgamation between the two discrepancies so hideously apparent to me. Out of my suffering I will do it. I will knock. I will enter.
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.
Until you can love what is - everything, including the apparent violence and craziness - you're separate from the world, and you'll see it as dangerous and frightening.
We should always go before our enemies with confidence, otherwise our apparent uneasiness inspires them with greater boldness.
We fear that evaluating our needs and then carefully choosing partners will reveal that there is no one for us to love. Most of us prefer to have a partner who is lacking than no partner at all. What becomes apparent is that we may be more interested in finding a partner than in knowing love.
The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.
Storytelling strengthens the imagination. To imagine is to envision, to see with the inward eye. This ability to imagine is the basis of all creativity. Creativity is being able to see beyond what is readily apparent. It is seeing a new answer to an old problem.
For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created.
Obama's attitude toward the rule of law is apparent in the words he used to describe what he is looking for in a nominee to replace Justice David Souter. He wants 'someone who understands justice is not just about some abstract legal theory,' he said, but someone who has 'empathy. ' In other words, judges should decide cases so that the right people win, not according to the rule of law.
Human potential, though not always apparent, is there waiting to be discovered and invited forth.
The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
When an apparent miracle happened. it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.
Courage is a muscle that develops through use. It's no use waiting for some inner fire to conveniently become apparent at the moment of crisis - that's cartoon stuff.
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
The apparent man is only a limitation of that Real Man.
I think it must be apparent to every thinking mind that the noblest of all professions is that of teaching, and that upon the effectiveness of that teaching hangs the destiny of nations.
The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth.
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.