Quotes About Nothing Is What It Seems

#1. You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

Jonathan Maberry

#2. Nothing is what it seems.
Favoured Pashtu proverb of Jan Fishan Khan.

Tahir Shah

#3. nothing is what it seems!

Jon

#4. In real life you are doomed if you believe in youth and money, but not here in Hollywood. Nothing is what it seems.

Amanda Eliasch

#5. An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or, 'He learnt the language of pigeons, and forgot his own.' Or, the favourite of Jan Fishan Khan: 'Nothing is what it seems.

Tahir Shah

#6. Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.

George Takei

#7. When not much is happening and there seems to be nothing you can do to change that, you do wonder. But I am an actor, like it or not. I stuck with it and took what was offered.

Kathleen Quinlan

#8. Lesson 1: Don't trust anybody.
Lesson 2: Be confident.
Lesson 3: Nothing is ever what it seems.
Lesson 4: When you're outgunned, stay quiet.

Jack Heath

#9. I knew that no matter what I said, it would not be enough; when you're on the other side of the looking glass, nothing is as it seems.

Melanie Benjamin

#10. In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows

Dean Koontz

#11. What is courage? Let me tell you what I think it is. An indefinable quality that makes a man put out that extra something, when it seems there is nothing else to give. I dare you to be better than you are. I dare you to be a thoroughbred.

Herb Brooks

#12. What would it mean to do enough, I wondered, as I had wondered before about that obligation to others that sometimes seems so clear and sometimes disappears altogether, so that now we owe nothing, anything we give is too much, and now our debt is beyond all counting.

Garth Greenwell

#13. What nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided, that no other love exists, that in any other form it is not love. If it involves less than total giving, it is not love. It is impotent; for the moment it is nothing.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#14. It isn't at all difficult for philosophy to begin. Far from it: it begins with nothing and can accordingly always begin. What seems so difficult to philosophy and the philosophers is to stop.

Soren Kierkegaard

#15. Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems like nothing at all.

Sarah Dessen

#16. In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.

William Hazlitt

#17. It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.

Kent Haruf

#18. In writing there are many secrets too. Nothing is ever lost no matter how it seems at the time and what is left out will always show and make the strength of what is left in.

Ernest Hemingway,

#19. And it seems to me that there is nothing more likely to cure a woman of lust than marriage. Now I understand what the saint meant when he said that it was better to marry than to burn. In my experience, if you marry, you certainly won't burn.

Philippa Gregory

#20. Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise, but all you are is a child yourself in a larger body. Nothing is ever what it seems. The things that you think you know are never certain. I know that now. I wish that I didn't, but I do.

Robert Crais

#21. Sometimes it's hard to see what could be, what we hope for, through the hurting part of what is, 'cause sometimes stuff hurts so much that we can't see nothing. But then sometimes what we hope for, well, seems like if we hope it long enough, hard enough, deep enough, it becomes what it.

Charles Martin

#22. At such a time it seems natural and good to me to ask myself these questions. What do I believe in? What must I fight for and what must I fight against? Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing

John Steinbeck

#23. What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?'
'I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose
a god who simply is.

Stanislaw Lem

#24. What do you believe in ?"
"People's sufferings, and the fact that it is abominable. One should do everything to abolish it. To tell you the truth, nothing else seems to me of any importance.

Simone De Beauvoir

#25. What is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.

Mabel Osgood Wright

#26. Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.

Malcolm Bradbury

#27. It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter how middle-class, housebroken, staid, and solitary someone's life seems to be. That, I think, is what I'm writing about.

Colum McCann

#28. Although I get a lot of ideas from things that have happened in my life, I see the final product as a place where my imagination meets my experience. What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.

Laurel Nakadate

#29. No matter what a situation or circumstance looks like; know that nothing is ever what it seems. Never loose hope.

Barbara Hart

#30. It is possible, it seems, to affirm everything the creed says - especially Jesus's "divine" status and his bodily resurrection - but to know nothing of what the gospel writers were trying to say. Something is seriously wrong here.

N. T. Wright