Seemingly Quotes
365 quotes by 323 authors
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Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.
— Peter Jackson
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Directing's the best part. Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like. And secondly, it means that you've gotten…
— J. J. Abrams
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Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a star conceived and a star…
— Olaf Stapledon
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Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.
— Harry Houdini
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Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation, the wait, the…
— Doris Grumbach
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Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
— William Plomer
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Relativity was a highly technical new theory that gave new meanings to familiar concepts and even to the nature of the theory itself. The general…
— David C. Cassidy
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Training began with children who were taught to sit still and enjoy it. They were taught to use their organs of smell, to look where…
— Luther Standing Bear
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The only time you truly make a mistake is when you commit a "mis-take," that is, you "miss-taking" the opportunity to learn a valuable lesson…
— Dean Frazer
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Faced with the almost inescapable conclusion that it had been selling lemons, Nike shifted into make-lemonade mode. Jeff Pisciotta became head of a top-secret and…
— Christopher McDougall
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My long-time view about Christianity is that it represents an amalgam of two seemingly immiscible parts-the religion of Jesus and the religion of Paul. Thomas…
— Carl Sagan
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I got to thinking about relationships and partial lobotomies. Two seemingly different ideas that might just be perfect together - like chocolate and peanut butter....
— Sarah Jessica Parker
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Brigham Young observed, "Man's machinery makes things alike" (JD 9:370), while God gives to seemingly like individuals pleasing differences. Secularism is no friend of righteous…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it…
— Adrienne Rich
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Don’t be discouraged at seemingly overwhelming odds in your desire to live and to help others live God’s commandments. At times it may seem like…
— David B. Haight
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When, for example, in the name of non-discrimination, people try to force the Catholic Church to change her position on homosexuality or the ordination of…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Believe in miracles. I have seen so many of them come when every other indication would say that hope was lost. Hope is never lost.…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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Each family prayer, each episode of family scripture study, and each family home evening is a brushstroke on the canvas of our souls. No one…
— David A. Bednar
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The misery of other people is only an abstraction something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's own experiences. But as it…
— Nicole Krauss
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Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external…
— Nikola Tesla
Who Wrote These Seemingly Quotes
323 authors contributed a total of 365 Seemingly Quotes, led by these top contributors: