“When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
By the delusions of seeming good the people are often misled to desire their own ruin; and they are frequently influenced by… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I suppose one has to remember that 'life' is important too, though it's something I forget in some moods, everything except work… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Ah were she pitiful as she is fair, Or but as mild as she is seeming so, Then were my hopes greater… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
A blouse that hits at the hips or above will keep you from seeming shapeless in a flowy skirt. — Brad Goreski Copy Share Image
The most impersonal seeming audiences eventually just say such intimate, smart, wise, amazing, totally surprising, funny things. It's empowering, in the sense… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I've often called the lighting for the stage the "music for the eye", because it has the same way of making an… — Jennifer Tipton Copy Share Image
He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been.… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Many are convinced, who are not truly enlightened; are afraid of the consequences of sin, though they never saw its evil; have… — John Newton Copy Share Image
It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We make trifles of terrors, Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness… — Faith Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things. — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
I entered an omnibus to go to some place or other. At that moment when I put my foot on the step… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
