Seeming And Being Quotes

#1. He did seem like a nice boy. Seeming and being are two different things.

Ellen Hopkins

#2. Seeming and being are not one and the same.

Cecelia Ahern

#3. When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

Stephen King

#4. We might embody those qualities we desire to possess by embracing them, over and over, until the line between seeming and being is no more.

Jacqueline Carey

#5. 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

#6. I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.

Catherine Deneuve

#7. who had the advantage of seeming to be an American without the disadvantage of actually being one; and Adeyemi,

Robert Harris

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. True worth is in being, not seeming

Alice Cary

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. The trick, when you're flirting, is figuring how to keep a balance between being engaging enough to retain someone's attention and not seeming overly available. So you tease a person a little.

Neil Strauss

#14. My mother was always in the center of her own agitation, seeming as though, far away, part of her was being chased along a dirt road by a swarm of bees.

Laura Kasischke

#15. Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

Christopher Fry

#16. 8.
Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one,
Sings this to thee: 'thou single wilt prove none.

William Shakespeare

#17. Mark, shaken, realizes he has just made the terrible mistake of not just seeming to be but actually being sincere.

Ali Smith

#18. 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

#19. Being is unrecognizable unless it manages to seem, and seeming is feeble unless it manages to be.

Gorgias

#20. - then more Losses, with the Substance seeming like the only consolation against the pain of the mounting Losses, and of course you're in Denial about it being the Substance that's causing the very Losses it's consoling you about -

David Foster Wallace

#21. Sex is not a wizard, whatever magical-seeming properties it might possess in its better forms. If your friend says to you, "You're being mean, you need to get laid," your problem is not sex. Your problems are that you might be acting like an asshole, and your friends are definitely idiots.

Katie Heaney

#22. The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

Criss Jami

#23. Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing

Thomas A. Edison

#24. What is the secret, my darling, of your being everything to all of us, as if there werre only one of us, yet never seeming to be hurried, or to have too much to do?
-Darney to Lucie

Charles Dickens

#25. I'm looking at the others, and I'm being fair. It makes me nervous to feel some of the things I do. But I want you to know, I'm still looking at you, too. I think you know by now I can't help it. He shrugged, seeming so boyish at that moment.

Kiera Cass

#26. True worth is being not seeming

Alice Cary

#27. Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.

Neal A. Maxwell

#28. It was because I was scared. Scared of standing out, scared of being invisible. Scared of seeming too big, scared of being too small.

Malorie Blackman

#29. She simply observed herself as a fair product of Nature in the feminine kind, her thoughts seeming to glide into far-off though likely dramas in which men would play a part - vistas of probable triumphs - the smiles being of a phase suggesting that hearts were imagined as lost and won.

Thomas Hardy

#30. She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being.

Charles Frazier