Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing? — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If thou art wise, incline to truth; for truth, not the semblance, remains in its place. — Saadi Copy Share Image
How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart! — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I need a semblance of routine so little things, like having my morning cup of English breakfast tea and going to Pilates… — Louise Roe Copy Share Image
Ylli, Agron and Mehmet were never given a fair and public trial, an opportunity to defend themselves, or any semblance of due… — Avis Bohlen Copy Share Image
True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved. — Dan Buettner Copy Share Image
The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
If I could get any semblance of - it's not really anonymity, but a little bit more - control over my public… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
If [YouTube] were to switch to Theora and maintain even a semblance of the current YouTube quality it would take up most… — Chris DiBona Copy Share Image
Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
From prescription, in the case of hypaethral edifices, open to the sky, in honor of Jupiter Lightning, the Heaven, the Sun, or… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Is a brazen and innocent confrontation with paternal authority an unbearably terrifying prospect to some? Are the consequences of a fathers anger… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
You should know that what wakes me up at night, what gets me running fast in the morning, and, frankly, what prompts… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
The basic idea of Zen is to come in touch with the inner workings of our being, and to do this in… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
I've always felt that acting is acting, at the end of the day, so whether you're doing comedy or heavy drama or… — Benjamin Bratt Copy Share Image
We're back around to [Buckminster] Fuller again. Back around to the recognition of patterns, which may be true or may not be.… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
The virtual suppression of ethical discussion after 1845 produces the semblance of purely descriptive analysis, dressed in the mantle of positivist objectivity,… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Nostalgia for people, cultures, everything. There's an ability to use these marks to note things that are erased, deleted. Traces are a… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
Voices of the glorified urge us onward. They who have passed from the semblances of time to the realities of eternity call… — William James Copy Share Image
It was many years ago that I got out of a crewtruck in the national forest and ran toward a large glowing… — Travis Walton Copy Share Image
A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The challenges that young people are mobilizing against oppressive societies all over the globe are being met with a state-sponsored violence that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Avoid any semblance of pornography. It is dangerous and addictive. If you continue to view pornography, your spirit will become desensitized and… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I need the concept of mercy for me to have some semblance of self-admiration. So in real life, I'm probably somebody who… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Progress is always the product of fresh thinking, and much of it thinking which to practical men bears the semblance of dreaming. — Robert Gordon Sproul Copy Share Image
These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
When you do stand-up, you're just concerned with trying to leave with some semblance of human dignity at the end of your… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
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