#palpable

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#age #air #before #begin #constantly

But I quite like that the public has a very short attention span. If I haven't been on telly for a little bit, I can sense it. People don't take as much notice of you, it's really quite palpable. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#attention span #been #bit #haven #i

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#cannot #civilization #much #palpable #people

It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#detection #especially #even #good #inside

Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#everyone #laughter #makes #noise #palpable

In New York there isn't that weird palpable competitive thing where it's friendly but everyone isn't trying to top one another with jokes when you're just hanging around. ↗

— David Cross

#around #competitive #everyone #friendly #hanging

Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#developing #developing world #difference #funding #government

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#often #opinions #palpable #popular #seldom

There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable. ↗

— William Shatner

#composition #doing #drama #ecstasy #film

Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#attempt #bear #cannot #every #god