They Seem Quotes

424 They Seem quotes by 374 unique authors

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are. — Jim Butcher
What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only… — Nikolai Gogol
People seem weak, but they're strong. They seem strong, but they're weak. — Fuyumi Soryo
I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gained from them. There are… — Muriel Barbery
Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all. — Kate DiCamillo
For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better. — John Cheever
..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems. — Muhammad Yunus
But one thing I realized with my brother is that you can’t toss your pearls before the swine. I think that’s why my mother insisted… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the general… — Virginia Woolf
Names are not always what they seem. — Mark Twain
The trouble with aggressive nonsmokers is that they feel they are doing you a favor by not allowing you to smoke. They seem to think… — David Sedaris
Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of… — Merlin Stone
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to… — Agatha Christie
It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions. — Paul Auster
Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a… — Virginia Woolf
There are the stars--doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky. Scholars haven't settled the matter yet, but they seem to think there are… — Thornton Wilder
Until we find out who was born this time around, it seems irrelevant to seek earlier identities. I have heard many people speak of who… — Stephen Levine
Whether in a suit or in a loincloth people are ignorant little thorns cutting into one another. They seem incapable of advancing beyond the violent… — Jhonen Vasquez
There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren't what they seem to be. And there are some as only… — Neil Gaiman
The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So a broken column… — Heinrich Heine
Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them. — William Shakespeare
I daresay it seems foolish; perhaps all our earthly trials will appear foolish to us after a while; perhaps they seem so now to angels.… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something.… — Jennifer Donnelly
They're constants, aren't they?" ... "Books are. That's why we like them so much. They seem immutable. They're not, of course. Not from the author's… — C.E. Murphy
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures,… — Baroness Orczy

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