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  • As evacuation eases the body, so occasional ejectment of passion seems to appease the agonies of the soul, and dispose to tranquility the agitations of the heart.

    Passion   Heart   Agony  
  • If you give in to the threat of violence, if you give in to bullying, what you know is that there will be more bullying. There will not be less bullying. If you appease the bully, you make sure that he will bully you some more. Not less. It doesn't solve the problem. It makes the problem worse.

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  • It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: 'Sit down and shut up,' but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out.

    Demand   May   Down And  
    Resignation Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2009.
  • I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while

  • Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and appease their own feelings of mediocrity and fear.

  • No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.

    Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.48, Simon and Schuster
  • I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on a map. The process of arrival is more subtle and complex. It involves acts of contrition. You must appease the gods. You must find novel forms of penance. You must tattoo your children and look at the wonder. It's about conjuring and awakening and intuitions you wish you never had.

    Tattoo   Children   Real  
  • I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

    "Hagel emerges from grueling confirmation hearing with solid Dem support for Pentagon job", www.foxnews.com. February 1, 2013.
  • I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him unintelligent. He was annoyed, and it did not appease him when I went on to ask how he came to attach such a clear meaning to the notion of lack of intelligence. We never spoke again.

    "Advice to a Young Scientist". Book by Peter Medawar, p. 25, 1979.
  • Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future.

    Strong   Believe   Past  
    "Mitt Romney victory speech in New Hampshire". www.politico.com.
  • I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creatures is born. But only one who can appease their conscience can take over their freedom […] Instead of taking men's freedom from them, Thou didst make it greater than ever! Didst Thou forget that man prefers peace, and even death, to freedom of choice in the knowledge of good and evil?

    Men   Hands   Evil  
  • The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous

  • The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”
  • The Jehovah of the Jews is a suspicious tyrant, who breathes nothing but blood, murder, and carnage, and who demands that they should nourish him with the vapours of animals. The Jupiter of the Pagans is a lascivious monster. The Moloch of the Phoenicians is a cannibal. The pure mind of the Christians resolved, in order to appease his fury, to crucify his own son. The savage god of the Mexicans cannot be satisfied without thousands of mortals which are immolated to his sanguinary appetite.

    Christian   Son   Animal  
  • Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.

    Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Idiot”, p.1431, Lulu Press, Inc
  • Truth does not appease but inflames the curiosity.

    Curiosity   Doe   Appease  
  • When you're composing for somebody, that means you have a boss. You have to do what it takes to, at the end of the day, appease them.

    "Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge Turned the '2016 Black Experience' Into the 'Luke Cage' Soundtrack". Interview with Justin Davis, www.complex.com. October 5, 2016.
  • I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

    Air   Agreement   Smell  
    1990 Describing the western attitude to the Gulf crisis. In The Independent, 31 Oct.
  • A lot of people don't know that my father is black

    Father   People   Black  
  • Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.

  • The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1030, Library of America
  • Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.

  • People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like a child who tries to eat a little, honey smeared on the edge of a knife. The amount is by no means sufficient to appease his appetite, but he runs the risk of wounding his tongue.

  • This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started.

    People   Fans   Comedy  
  • Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I was like, "Who the hell is Bob Dylan?" I was going to learn one song to appease my mom and alphabetically the first song in the book was "Absolutely Sweet Marie." When I heard it, it was like "Oh, there is something going on here. It's not like my parents' boring music that I don't care about. This is totally electrifying."

    Mom   Song   Sweet  
    "Playground for the Perplexed". Interview with J.L. Sirisuk, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 5, 2015.
  • Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

    1955 The Public Philosophy, ch.2, sect.4.
  • When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our responsibility. But charity is no solution to poverty. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. Charity allows us to go ahead with our own lives without worrying about the lives of the poor. Charity appeases our consciences.

  • The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.

    Self   Enemy   Appease  
    "How to Answer the Paris Terror Attack" by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, www.wsj.com. January 7, 2015.
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