Seemingly Quotes

365 quotes by 323 authors

I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person,… — Dani Shapiro
Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different… — Robert Anton Wilson
The universe is one being. Everything and everyone is interconnected through an invisible web of stories. Whether we are aware of it or not, we… — Elif Safak
It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray. — Rachel Carson
It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives. — William P. Young
Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings. — Danielle Steel
In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings… — Louis L'Amour
The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just like the next - trunk, branches, leaves; trunk, branches, leaves. Of… — Thomas M. Disch
Whatâ€™s most important is what you canâ€™t see but can feel in your heart. To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have… — Haruki Murakami
My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career. — John Waters
Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back… — Joan Didion
Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even… — Norman Maclean
With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact itâ€™s essential to slow down and read every… — Francine Prose
I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on earth available to… — Charles Bukowski
I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a… — Andre Breton
Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes contemporary economic opportunity. — Patricia Hill Collins
All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for… — Olaf Stapledon
People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined… — Atul Gawande
To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts. — Haruki Murakami

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