Life Isn't What It Seems Quotes

#1. Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.

Dalton Trumbo

#2. To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

Thomas Heatherwick

#3. He hasn't accepted his death. He is already fighting hard to stay alive. Which also means that kind Peeta Mellark, the boy who gave me bread, is fighting hard to kill me.

Suzanne Collins

#4. In the middle of the North Pole, anything hot gives the feeling like touching the hand of the God!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.

Criss Jami

#6. I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

Andrew Wyeth

#7. You may never have heard of Joseph Overton and his proverbial window but you most certainly have heard the Republican presidential campaign in 2015 year not just flinging the window open but shattering all its glass.

Rachel Maddow

#8. Life isn't as complicated as it seems. There's a solution for every problem you have. Seek and you will find them!

Timothy Pina

#9. There's a subtle change, and it makes him feel good. I don't know why, but it seems as if there isn't a lot in his life that makes him feel good, so I like that this does

Colleen Hoover

#10. When we can say no not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.

Charles Warren Stoddard

#11. It's strange, isn't it? No matter how quiet and conformist a person's life seems, there's always a time in the past when they reached an impasse. A time when they went a little crazy.

Haruki Murakami

#12. That life isn't fair? Yeah, that, of course. But I also learned that it's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief ... lessens.

Nicholas Sparks

#13. What you're seeing is pain. And you're the only one who sees it," he said more softly. "You're the only one who can cut me, and you wound me deep.

Delilah S. Dawson

#14. Then the night lessened, the clouds ashened slightly, and the men became starkly black and brown against the gray of the snow.

Ron Hansen

#15. This war will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongol massacres and the Crusades. - by Arab League Secretary General Abdul Rahman Azzam

Sol Stern

#16. Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater.

Nicholas Evans

#17. I feel like we all have our skeletons.

Taraji P. Henson

#18. I want an iPhone 5, someone said something nasty on twitter, or my boyfriend isn't texting me back, like whatever the thing is that seems so major in your life, when a real disaster hits you suddenly strips it all away and you see what's really important and who you really are.

Eli Roth

#19. Scarlet watched a leaf fall to the ground, lying dead amoung the other leaves on the forest floor. "A brief life seems pointless."
Tristan thought for a moment. "Isn't that what life is, though? A brief opportunity to exist? A short gift?

Chelsea Fine

#20. Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it

Arthur Golden

#21. For a moment, life isn't as hard as it seems. Effortless. It's effortless, and then the gauntlet falls.

Rachel Van Dyken

#22. I respect religion and will respect any religion.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#23. Explain yourself!" he commanded.
"Isn't that rather much for a man to ask of a woman?"
"I don't know. I have no experience of women. In the abstract, it seems to me that every man has a
right to some explanation from the woman who has ruined his life." (page 90)

Max Beerbohm

#24. For a long time, music was hope. Now it seems music isn't enough to make me happy. It used to be that's all I needed to keep going. Now I need other things to take up the other parts of my life.

Juliana Hatfield