Seeming Quotes

186 quotes by 161 authors

For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as people became accustomed to me and my habits, and… — Charlotte Bronte
She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming. — Roberto Bolano
How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but "older," if that makes sense.… — Aidan Chambers
Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a… — Ann Brashares
Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.… — Albert Einstein
My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear â€” a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings… — Khalil Gibran
There are things you won't know unless you try to find out. it's possible to notice things without seeming to. You're not a kid who… — Kazuya Minekura
I was at a loss suddenly; but conscious all the while of how Armand listened; that he listened in the way that we dream of… — Anne Rice
Ordinarily, of course, I thought it best to remain inconspicuous, but the gesture had a certain irresistable theatricaility, and an inevitablility. Sometimes you can feel… — Curtis Sittenfeld
Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world , individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Jem seemed to look through her then, as if he were seeing something beyond her, beyond the corridor, beyond the Institute itself. "Whatever you are… — Cassandra Clare
Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms,… — William Shakespeare
Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating… — Guy de Maupassant
So what you're saying is, I'm your brand of heroin?" I teased, trying to lighten the mood. He smiled swiftly, seeming to appreciate my effort.… — Stephenie Meyer
Madness is not what it seems. Time stops. All my life I've been obsessed with time, its motion and velocity, the way it works you… — Marya Hornbacher
He's going to hurt you," Al said, looking at Pierce. "I can take care of you, teach you to survive. Be there for you, even… — Kim Harrison
And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door; And his eyes… — Edgar Allan Poe
So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem. — William Shakespeare
No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules? — Robert J. Sawyer

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