Semblance Quotes

68 quotes by 63 authors

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life,… — Desiderius Erasmus
Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and… — R A Salvatore
The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic. — Nick Hornby
Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create… — Neil Gaiman
Please, by all the blessed saints and their bladders, tell me you two didnâ€™tâ€¦Have you lost all semblance of intelligence? (Syn) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Justice based purely on laws is about as accurate as a portrait created out of large low-resolution color pixels. If you stand back far enough… — Vera Nazarian
When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where… — David Sheff
When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what… — Paul Hawken
In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
You don't look so hot, Adrien." "Yeah, well I'm having a bad heart day." His upper lip curled in a semblance of a smile. "Tell… — Josh Lanyon
Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false… — Dante Alighieri
Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing? — Virginia Woolf
Soon or late, every dog's master's memory becomes a graveyard; peopled by wistful little furry ghosts that creep back unbidden, at times, to a semblance… — Albert Payson Terhune
She thumped him again. He looked startled, then caught her flying fist in his hand and gently pried her fingers open. Very carefully he pressed… — Christine Feehan
I would argue that a truly developed country would be beyond Presidents and Kings. In a world with some semblance of equality, each liberal-minded woman,… — Isaac Asimov
A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The women of Afghanistan, left behind as their men fought, did what the women of World War II did - used their wits and resourcefulness… — Tina Brown
For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine. — Matthew Prior

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