Seeming Quotes

• If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work.

  Dale Carnegie

  Believe, Belief, Selling

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• The thing is to get the work done.

  Dale Carnegie

  Done, Belief, Work Done

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• Being busy does not always mean real work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Real, Mean, Infinite Intelligence

  Ford Times, Volume 6 (p. 136), 1912.

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• But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Heart, Sleeves

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. 64

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• From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other.

  Albert Einstein

  Purpose, Sake, Daily Life

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• If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.

  Connie Sellecca

  Happiness, Success, Happy

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• Be as you wish to seem.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Integrity, Hypocrisy

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• Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And things will constantly challenge you. Wherever you look the world is not as solid it seems to be.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Loving Life, Hard Times

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• It seemed the more I knew about people the more I knew about the strange magic hidden in their hearts.

  Rudolfo Anaya

  Inspirational, Heart, Knowing

  Rudolfo A. Anaya (1972). “Bless Me, Ultima: A Novel”, Tqs Publications

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• This it is to be a man of the highest type: to be and not seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have the right ideal, the true motive and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it.

  Ossian Everett Mills

  Men, Good Man, Patient

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• We all have that possibility, that potential and that promise of seeing beyond the seeming.

  Maya Angelou

  Promise, Possibility, Seeing

  "The 3 Lessons Maya Angelou Taught Us About Coping" by Jan Bruce, www.mequilibrium.com. June 10, 2014.

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• There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.

  John Updike

  Quality, Way, Firsts

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit, Run”, p.37, Random House

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• ONE MORE CHNCE. Words that my mother heard, more than once. Words that women debate. Whether you CAN forgive and whether you SHOULD trust. I think of all the judgment from society, friends, and family, the overwhelming consensus seeming to be that you should not grant someone who betrayed you a second chance. That you should do everything you can to keep the knife out of your back, and to protect your heart and pride. Cowards give second chances. Fools give second chances. And I am no coward, no fool.

  Emily Giffin

  Mother, Heart, Pride

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• I need the protection of seeming weak.

  Veronica Roth

  Needs, Protection, Weak

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• Cept for Ben, who I can’t describe much further without seeming soft and stupid and like a boy, so I won’t, just to say that I never knew my pa, but if you woke up one day and had a choice of picking one from a selecshun, if someone said, here, then, boy, pick who you want, then Ben wouldn’t be the worst choice you could make that morning.

  Patrick Ness

  Morning, Stupid, Boys

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God… Among the tribes our creed could be only like the desert grass – a beautiful swift seeming of spring; which, after a day’s heat, fell dusty.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Beautiful, Spring, Military

  T. E. Lawrence (2013). “Seven Pillars of Wisdom”, p.338, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. I hope this isn't too melodramatic or self-centred a way of saying that I attempt to write as if I did not care what reviewers said, what peers thought, or what prevailing opinions may be.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Writing, Self, Risk

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• Were I the Moor I would not be Iago. In following him I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so for my peculiar end. For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, ’tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at. I am not what I am

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Long, Judging

  1603-4 Iago. Othello, act1, sc.1, l.60-5.

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• Ah walk doon Hammersmith Broadway, London seeming strange and alien, after only a three-month absence, as familiar places do when you’ve been away. It’s as if everything is a copy of what you knew before, similar, yet somehow lacking in its usual qualities, a bit like the wey things are in a dream. They say you have to live in a place to know it, but you have to come fresh tae really see it.

  Irvine Welsh

  Dream, Quality, Broadway

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• He was trying to be everywhere at once," the redhead told the human. "Trying to make sure Alice had nothing to do, actually." He shook his head as he looked at the tiny blackhaired girl. "Alice doesn‘t need anyone‘s help." The vampire named Alice shot a glare at Jasper. "Overprotective fool," she said in her clear soprano voice. Jasper met her stare with a half smile, seeming to forget for a second that I existed.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Girl, Voice, Vampire

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• The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to.

  Dee Brown

  Moving, White, People

  Dee Brown (2012). “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West”, p.252, Open Road Media

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• Nothing before, nothing behind; The steps of faith Fall on the seeming void, and find The Rock beneath.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Faith, Fall, Rocks

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.139, tredition

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• Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Clever, Keeping Your Mouth Shut, Half

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.615, Penguin

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• He had a happy canine way of seeking approval without seeming insecure.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Insecure, Way, Approval

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.396, Macmillan

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• Seeming and being are not one and the same.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Cecelia Ahern (2004). “PS, I Love You: A Novel”, p.364, Hachette UK

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