Semblance Quotes

68 quotes by 63 authors

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy… — Honore de Balzac
Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this… — John Henrik Clarke
What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of… — Paul Hawken
Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build… — Sol Stein
True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved. — Dan Buettner
All that is limited by form, semblance, sound, color is called object. Among them all, man alone is more than an object. Though, like objects,… — Zhuangzi
In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered… — Rene Magritte
How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the… — John Ruskin
These pages are not my confession; theyâ€™re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some… — Fernando Pessoa
I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just… — Sufjan Stevens
The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its significance at seventy.… — Siri Hustvedt
Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as… — Friedrich Schleiermacher
If one fails to develop goals that give meaning to oneâ€™s existence, if one does not use the mind to itâ€™s fullest, then good feelings… — Dan Buettner
I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment… — Guy Sajer
The basic idea of Zen is to come in touch with the inner workings of our being, and to do this in the most direct… — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
At the heart of all that civilization has meant and developed is 'community' - the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man to assume a… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Progress is always the product of fresh thinking, and much of it thinking which to practical men bears the semblance of dreaming. — Robert Gordon Sproul
Somethings get easier. You get more confident in your abilities and you learn what kind of stories sell and what don't. But your standards kept… — Lori Wilde
It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend… — Nic Sheff

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