Top 100 Quotes About Seeming
#1. Indeed, the case very often such, by the seeming calls of Providence, as made it extremely difficult for him to do more than his strength would admit of. Yea, his circumstances and the business of his mission ... were such that great fatigues and hardships were altogether inevitable.
Jonathan Edwards
#2. He had a happy canine way of seeking approval without seeming insecure.
Jonathan Franzen
#3. Arriving at a mansion with another gate, low and nearly invisible inside its landscape gardening, seeming so much constructed of night itself that at sunrise it might all disappear.
Thomas Pynchon
#4. That little word 'we' I mistrust and here's why:
No man of another can say, 'He is I.'
Behind all agreement lies something amiss
All seeming accord cloaks a lurking abyss.
Albert Einstein
#5. The only real danger is flinching, seeming to notice your own nakedness. If you don't flinch, you're merely nude, which is a classically recognized form of beauty.
David Thomson
#6. There is probably nothing harder than seeming sincere when your heart is broken. And sincerity, as problematic as the word may appear to you, is also the basis of teaching. You can't pretend for long.
Christophe Dufosse
#7. He knew exactly what it was like to lose a child. And that fact wouldn't matter in the least in this circumstance. There could be no commiseration among such people despite the seeming commonality of loss, because it was actually each parent's totally unique hell.
David Baldacci
#8. Why did things have to be so complicated with human beings? ... Yet if we were not what we were, creatures with at least the awareness of purpose and honor, what would we be? Empty knights in armor, seeming so strong on the outside, yet hollow inside?
Piers Anthony
#9. He cranks up his arm, rears back, and throws, and the ball, taking an even more perfect path than it took off the bat, travels in a white arc, seeming to leave behind a line like a streak of forgotten rainbow as it drops over the fence, silent as a star falling into a distant ocean.
W.P. Kinsella
#10. We need not get distracted by the seeming defeat or troubles of our daily lives ("what is seen"), because this affliction is actually being used by God to transform our character (2 Corinthians 3:18) so we can become the kind of citizens who will flourish in his future kingdom ("what is not seen").
J.P. Moreland
#11. One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.
Ambrose Bierce
#12. The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpretation of all revelation, the key to all the seeming contradictions of the physical and moral world.
Max Muller
#13. At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.
Robert Frost
#14. A man may as certainly miscarry by his seeming righteousness and supposed graces, as by gross sins; and that is, when a man doth trust in these as his righteousness before God, for the satisfying His justice, appeasing His wrath, procuring His favor, and obtaining his own pardon.
Joseph Alleine
#16. Silent people hold a magic and a knowledge that less contained people lack; that their not saying something means that more important thoughts are going on inside their head. Perhaps their seeming simplicity belies a hidden mosaic of fanciful thoughts.
Cecelia Ahern
#17. It was unreal how two souls could look out through the same set of eyes in such drastically different fashion, seeming to reshape them entirely.
Laini Taylor
#18. Strive as she would to put some order in her thoughts, the words would not come more clearly; yet she felt that she could not leave him without trying to make him understand that she had saved herself whole from the seeming ruin of her life.
Edith Wharton
#19. Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way to merit that would otherwise be discouraged by difficulties.
Lord Chesterfield
#20. The home videos aren't as good, but they are seeming to get better.
Bob Hope
#21. Cyndi Lauper is really good at talking to you about normal things. It's strange to be in the presence of a big celebrity like that. You want to make these connections and say things related to being a fan. It's not as interesting for them. She's amazing at making small talk without it seeming small.
Barrett Foa
#22. The seeming paradoxes of beauty and truth collide and individuality emerges from the debris. We spend our lifetimes dusting it down.
Martin Cosgrove
#24. who had the advantage of seeming to be an American without the disadvantage of actually being one; and Adeyemi,
Robert Harris
#25. I had a terrible fear of not being normal - of not seeming normal. So I went to the library and read every psychology book I could find. Anything about how normal people behave.
Woody Norris
#26. The bride waits here," she said, running her hands along her hair, taking in her image but seeming to drift away. "This is the moment you think about what you're doing. Who you're choosing. Who you will love. If it's right, Eddie, this can be such a wonderful moment.
Mitch Albom
#27. Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you're sane.
Brandi Carlile
#28. If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming.
Pietro Metastasio
#29. Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.
Guy De Maupassant
#30. I never knew any man who had once tasted the sweetness of experimental knowledge, that ever afterward fasted after ye Vapour garlick and onions of phantasmatical seeming philosophy. {William Petty]
Carl Zimmer
#31. True worth is in being, not seeming
Alice Cary
#32. There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#33. You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.
George Eliot
#34. Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful; Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious To have mistrusted her.
William Shakespeare
#35. Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.
Patrick Rothfuss
#36. There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.
John Updike
#37. We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.
Mignon McLaughlin
#38. When you most succeed, you do so by seeming not to act at all.
Stella Adler
#39. Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
Roberto Bolano
#40. Is the brain, which is notably double in structure, a double organ, 'seeming parted, but yet a union in partition'?
Henry Maudsley
#41. The most impersonal seeming audiences eventually just say such intimate, smart, wise, amazing, totally surprising, funny things. It's empowering, in the sense of feeling like you're a part of something really important.
Gloria Steinem
#43. Any story worth telling relates to real life in some meaningful way. Scifi allows you to tell meaningful stories without seeming too preachy - it adds a metaphorical layer between the story and the real world. Scifi is dismissed as ungrounded fluff, but it's actually the opposite.
Jane Espenson
#44. It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
Woodrow Wilson
#45. Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
Jeremy Collier
#46. What is thy body but a swallowing grave,
Seeming to bury that posterity
Which, by the rights of time, thou needs must have
If thou destroy them not in dark obscurity?
If so, the world will hold thee in disdain,
Sith in thy pride so fair a hope is slain.
William Shakespeare
#47. Patience perforce with willful choler meeting/Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting./I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall,/Now seeming sweet, convert to bitt'rest gall.
William Shakespeare
#48. Tis the witching hour of night,
Orbed is the moon and bright,
And the stars they glisten, glisten,
Seeming with bright eyes to listen
For what they listen?
John Keats
#49. When you travel like I did, vague about destination and with an open-ended itinerary, a holy-seeming openness takes over your character. It's the reason the first philosophers were peripatetic.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#50. No man has ever been so far advanced by Fortune that she did not threaten him as greatly as she had previously indulged him. Do not trust her seeming calm; in a moment the sea is moved to its depths. The very day the ships have made a brave show in the games, they are engulfed.
Seneca.
#51. Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.
Horace Mann
#52. embrace and fully 'excavate' our Shadow, the seeming darkness within. Only by fully honoring all aspects of our journey (every wound, every person, every trauma) can we begin to accept and eventually honor all of who we are." - JOHN POLLARD,
Jeff Brown
#53. The mountain remains unmoved in seeming defeat by the mist.
Anonymous
#54. He sits next to me, the veins on his neck and arms seeming more prominent than they did earlier. His mouth compresses, igniting his eyes with esoteric light, pulling me into the magnetic undertow.
Poppet
#55. What is it about someone genuine that makes other people want to crucify him in some tiny-seeming way? Someone has probably written the reason down in a book. But no one takes any notice, if we do know.
Elizabeth Harrower
#56. But though it was the most resonant and real-seeming thing that had happened in a long time, I didn't want to spoil it by talking about it...
Donna Tartt
#57. No philosopher who was really philosophical could think anything except that, in that central sea, the wave of the world had risen to its highest, seeming to touch the stars. But the wave was already stooping; for it was only the wave of the world. That
G.K. Chesterton
#58. It matters, because everything we say
Of the past is description without place, a cast
Of the imagination, made in sound;
And because what we say of the future must portend,
Be alive with its own seemings, seeming to be
Like rubies reddened by rubies reddening.
Wallace Stevens
#59. Enough of self, that darling luscious theme,
O'er which philosophers in raptures dream;
Of which with seeming disregard they write
Then prizing most when most they seem to slight.
Charles Churchill
#60. He smiles at me, and it's the kind of smile that he does and no else ever has. It's the kind of smile where his lips press together and his eyes stare straight into my soul, seeming to appreciate what he sees there.
Amy Sparling
#61. No, what's troubling is the gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics
the ease with which we are distracted by the petty and trivial, our chronic avoidance of tough decisions, our seeming inability to build a working concensus to tackle any big problem.
Barack Obama
#62. My dear People, began Bilbo, rising in his place. 'Hear! Hear! Hear!' they shouted, and kept on repeating it in chorus, seeming reluctant to follow their own advice.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#63. Cole has a background that required him to fight like an animal," Blake said, seeming to choose his words carefully. "His dedication to the Church comes partly from what he endured as a child.
Debra Anastasia
#64. Never let some guy take advantage of you just 'cause you're worried about seeming mean,
Charlotte Stein
#65. Idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and succeeds where prudence fails. But unless the idealist is brave and has the courage to face the truth, his idealism creates nothing.
Grenville Kleiser
#66. I realized he had my car keys."Hey, where did you get those?""We found your purse at the Dairy Queen.""How did you know it was there?""The GPS." He smirked, seeming more like the Jared I knew."You have a GPS tracker on my car?
Alyssa Rose Ivy
#67. Miss Petitfour loved the little pictures, each in its own serrated frame and each seeming to tell it's own little story.
Anne Michaels
#68. If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work in the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.
Dale Carnegie
#69. A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for instance, commonly advisable to seem ignorant of what people offer to tell you; and, when they say, Have you not heard of such a thing? to answer, No, and to let them go on, though you know it already.
Lord Chesterfield
#70. Bert, whenever you see something bright, shining, perfect-seeming - all gold, with purple spots - look behind the paint! And if it's a lie - show it up for what it really is!
Jerome Lawrence
#71. Thus, with no one to advise her - for she could advise with no one without seeming to complain against him - gentle Florence tossed on an uneasy sea of doubt and hope; and Mr. Carker, like a scaly monster of the deep, swam down below, and kept his shining eye upon her.
Charles Dickens
#72. He knew what I was thinking," the boy said to himself. The old man, meanwhile, was leafing through the book, without seeming to
Paulo Coelho
#73. The instructor was a man of middle age, in his early fifties; his name was Archer Sloane, and he came to his task of teaching with a seeming disdain and contempt, as if he perceived between his knowledge and what he could say a gulf so profound that he would make no effort to close it.
John Edward Williams
#74. We simply cannot afford to allow our government to go unscrutinised, most of all in amid the bleak seeming imperatives of the 'war on terror'.
Nick Harkaway
#75. The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things.
Grenville Kleiser
#76. All things can tempt me from this craft of verse:
One time it was a woman's face, or worse
The seeming needs of my fool-driven land;
Now nothing but comes readier to the hand
Than this accustomed toil.
William Butler Yeats
#77. It might not have been Mike,' she said, 'but somebody left something somewhere.'
I couldn't really argue with that. It was as succinct a summing up of the seeming randomness of events in life as I had ever heard.
Bob Tarte
#78. You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it cannot, for down beneath the water it is anchored. So many a soul sways toward heaven, but cannot ascend thither, because it is anchored to some secret sin.
Henry Ward Beecher
#79. Discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments or explications of the peculiar doctrines of our sect, and were all to me very dry, uninteresting, and unedifying, since not a single moral principle was inculcated or enforced, their aim seeming to be rather to make us Presbyterians than good
Benjamin Franklin
#80. I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict ... ever since I became loosely involved with it, it has seemed to me one of the recurring ironies of this movement that there is no way to tell the truth about it without, in some small way, seeming to hurt it.
Nora Ephron
#81. He dropped his arms on the bed and peered over at Jenna.
She lay on her side facing him, hand tucked under her chin, not looking the least bit settled or relaxed.
"Whatchu need?"
"You." She spoke the word without and hesitation, any doubt, any seeming self-consciousness.
Laura Kaye
#82. The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check.
John Bates Clark
#83. Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#84. A paradox is a seeming contradiction, always demanding a change on the side of the observer. If we look at almost all things honestly we see everything has a character of paradox to it. Everything, including ourselves.
Richard Rohr
#85. Jefferson was among the greatest men who had ever lived, a Renaissance figure who was formidable without seeming overbearing, sparkling without being showy, winning without appearing cloying.
Jon Meacham
#86. There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
Sivananda Saraswati
#87. He's going to hurt you," Al said, looking at Pierce. "I can take care of you, teach you to survive. Be there for you, even if you do hate me." I shivered. "I don't want him," I said, and Al turned away, seeming smaller somehow.
Kim Harrison
#88. O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies.
William Shakespeare
#89. It was because she was drinking a lot, choosing to do these things to be happy but never seeming all that happy the next day, or the one after that.
Katie Heaney
#90. If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.
Lester Levenson
#91. Mark, shaken, realizes he has just made the terrible mistake of not just seeming to be but actually being sincere.
Ali Smith
#93. Geopolitical drama lessened but did not die after the Cold War; in 2008, the specter of thousands of seeming automatons banging drums at the opening of the Beijing Games frightened and enthralled the world, reminding us that China was a nation on the rise, a competitor for global dominance.
Ben Shapiro
#94. God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.
Neal A. Maxwell
#95. The weather was clear and still, and the countless stars opened above them, seeming like brilliant cold fruits that Maerad could simply pick out of the sky.
Alison Croggon
#96. By the delusions of seeming good the people are often misled to desire their own ruin; and they are frequently influenced by great hopes and brave promises.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#97. It is something great and greatening to cherish an ideal; to act in the light of truth that is far-away and far above; to set aside the near advantage, the momentary pleasure; the snatching of seeming good to self; and to act for remoter ends, for higher good, and for interests other than our own.
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
#98. Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.
Mahatma Gandhi
#99. Our emotions are different but we have them. We never cast a cold eye on life or death. Don't misunderstand our seeming serenity. After all, we live in a world of perfect trust in The Maker, and we are keenly aware that humans often do not, and we feel an active sorrow for them.
Anne Rice
#100. All the seeming "coincidences" ... were actually God catching me in his arms.
Shirley Corder
