Appositeness Quotes & Sayings

Everyone holds his or her own key to success and happiness. It's just that sometimes you have to test out a lot of wrong keys first to find the one that fits. — Brittany Burgunder

The one thing all that battle taught me, is that no one walks away without scars. No one. (Bad Moon Rising) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

What was threatening was cold, hard intelligence. — Michael Lewis

No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer — Naguib Mahfouz

Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust. — Kingsley Amis

Look: each moment is a cradle and a casket: may all life and all death seem strange to you. — Marcel Schwob

Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial; and when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another. — Nelson Mandela

Not so easy to put flesh and blood on the bones of an intellectual conviction; Martha was remembering with shame the brash and easy way she had said to Joss that she repudiated race prejudice; for the fact was, she could not remember a time when she had not thought of people in terms of groups, nations, or colour of skin first, and as people afterwards. — Doris Lessing

Someone who directs a film, they have to see the overall picture, and they have to get the best performances out of the actors. — Joshua Bell

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness. — Michael Polanyi

There comes a moment when the silence between two people can have the purity of a diamond. — Philippe Djian

Look,' he said, 'I don't think we should continue this discussion. I don't like this side of you.' 'I'm not a box,' she said 'I don't have sides. This is it. One side fits all. This is it. — Carrie Fisher