Seeming Quotes

186 quotes by 161 authors

One who can see without seeming to see-- That's an observer as good as three. — William Allingham
I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical. — Catherine Deneuve
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must… — Thomas A. Edison
Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole… — Jerry Saltz
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness. — Jerry Saltz
There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. — Sivananda
The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer,… — John Wanamaker
Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort. — Carolyn Heilbrun
At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to… — Che Guevara
Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Occasionally some individuals let the seeming ordinariness of life dampen their spirits. Though actually coping and growning, others lack the quiet, inner-soul satisfaction that can… — Neal A. Maxwell
Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into oneâ€™s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to oneâ€™s… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as… — Henry David Thoreau
His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with… — Angela Carter
Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by… — Neal A. Maxwell
God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family. — Neal A. Maxwell
And I walk out of space Into an overgrown garden of values, And tear up seeming stability And self-comprehension of causes. And your, infinity, textbook… — Osip Mandelstam
Because,' Cormery went on, 'when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone ... you paid attention to me and, without seeming to,… — Albert Camus
A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells. — Diana Wynne Jones

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