We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Ewan McGregor stars as Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi, again doing a fine Alec Guinness impersonation but otherwise seeming lost and alone in the… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Enough of self, that darling luscious theme, O'er which philosophers in raptures dream; Of which with seeming disregard they write Then prizing… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Ramones or AC/DC are two bands that have managed to keep their signature sound and their signature formula for years and years… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I have always had this very strong, call it a feeling, call it a prejudice, call it a conviction ... that the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way for merit, that would otherwise be discouraged by difficulties... — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I try when I'm writing to fill my head and my ears with all sorts of stuff and then let it settle… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of loss embedded in a loss - the loss of the person, and the loss of the self… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When you love what you do, it stops seeming like work and instead becomes necessity. — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
Regardless of the day or the hour; whether in seeming good times or bad, the Christian lives in the world for the… — Harold Lindsell Copy Share Image
Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
When better cherries are not to be had, We needs must take the seeming best of bad. — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
True worth is in being, not seeming- In doing, each day that goes by, Some little good, not in the dreaming Of… — Alice Cary Copy Share Image
I have a skeptical and cranky side, and I'm forever puzzled why people believe the, seeming to me, dumb things that they… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see… — David Amram Copy Share Image
Patience is, in and of itself, a great challenge and it often holds the key to breaking through a seeming impasse. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
