Seeming Quotes

186 quotes by 161 authors

...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away… — C.S. Lewis
But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I believe in hell.… — Flannery O'Connor
Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all, and… — Charlotte Bronte
The Moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me across space I… — D. H. Lawrence
Birds fascinated her. How did they do that, seeming to fly with one mind, each of them able to anticipate what the others would do? — Suzanne Weyn
TIME WENT ON, life with the children unfolding in its own ecosystem, small plastic toys seeming to grow up from the carpet like mushrooms, clothes… — Erica Bauermeister
It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing. — George Eliot
There is no use of Evangelicalism seeming to get larger and larger, if at the same time appreciable parts of Evangelicalism are getting soft at… — Francis Schaeffer
There's rosemary and rue. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Grace and remembrance be to you. — William Shakespeare
And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?"There is no need to hasten that end," Vin said.… — Brandon Sanderson
One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. — William Shakespeare
The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider… — Okakura Kakuzo
The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are. — Kurt Vonnegut
Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the… — Richard Le Gallienne
What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all… — John Milton
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not… — Christopher Fry
The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out,… — Charles Bukowski

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