Seeming Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Mind, Age, Literature

  Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.328, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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

  Hurt, Hate, Care

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• Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which we call [physical] law. ... No one attributes freewill or motive to the material world. Is the conduct of man or the other animals any more subject to whim or choice than the action of the planets? ... We know that man's every act is induced by motives that led or urged him here or there; that the sequence of cause and effect runs through the whole universe, and is nowhere more compelling than with man.

  Clarence Darrow

  Running, Moving, Men

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• Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Truth, Lying, Heaven

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• 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

  Relationship, Money, Issues

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.402, Harvard University Press

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• Hope is a vigorous principle; it is furnished with light and heat to advise and execute; it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost. And thus, by perpetually pushing and assurance, it puts a difficulty out of countenance, and makes a seeming impossibility give way.

  Jeremy Collier

  Hope, Heart, Men

  Jeremy Collier (1732). “Essays upon several moral subjects”

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• History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form.

  Johan Huizinga

  Past, Simple, History

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

  Ellen Hopkins

  Nice, Boys, Two

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• I thought you'd like it," he said, seeming hurt. "You look very pretty.

  Meg Cabot

  Hurt, Looks, Said

  Meg Cabot (2013). “The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken”, p.181, Pan Macmillan

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• That all opposites—such as mass and energy, subject and object, life and death—are so much each other that they are perfectly inseparable, still strikes most of us as hard to believe. But this is only because we accept as real the boundary line between the opposites. It is, recall, the boundaries themselves which create the seeming existence of separate opposites. To put it plainly, to say that "ultimate reality is a unity of opposites" is actually to say that in ultimate reality there are no boundaries. Anywhere.

  Ken Wilber

  Real, Believe, Opposites

  Ken Wilber (1979). “No Boundary, Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth”, Great Eastern Book Company

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• ...the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her.

  Laini Taylor

  Air, Love At First Sight, Stories

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• "Don't be afraid to make corrections," Picchu said. "Don't be afraid to lend a hand." She fell silent, seeming to think for a moment. "And don't look down."

  Diane Duane

  Thinking, Hands, Looks

  Diane Duane (1992). “So You Want to Be a Wizard”, Yearling Books

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• Do you like him? Ty asked. "Not that I care." "I do," I said, because it was true. Even though it didn't matter anymore. "Not that I care you don't care. Though you clearly do care, and I don't care about that either." "Well, I don't care that you don't care that I don't care. In fact i'm glad. Because, um, if I were seeming someone that I liked, I'd want you to be happy for me.""Are you seeing someone?" I asked, pretty sure he wasn't. "Not that I care.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Care, Want, Matter

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• 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 Chamberlain

  Light, Self, Cherish

  Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1994). “Bayonet! Forward: my Civil War reminiscences”, Butternut & Blue

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• No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Simple, Order, Disputes

  Robert J. Sawyer (2009). “Calculating God”, p.88, Macmillan

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• So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.

  William Shakespeare

  Best Friend, Cute Friendship, Sisterhood

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 208

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• And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming Of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamplight o'er him streaming Throws his shadow on the floor, And my soul from out that shadow, That lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted - nevermore.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Lying, Eye

  "The Raven" l. 107 (1845)

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• 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

  Endurance, Tumbling, Surf

  Neal A. Maxwell (1991). “Men and Women of Christ”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with the circumspect tenderness of comrades who are amputees, for we were surrounded by the most moving images of evanesecence, fireworks, morning glories, the old, children. But the most moving of these images were the intagible relfections of ourselves we saw in one another's eyes, reflections of nothing but appearances, in a city dedicated to seeming, and, try as we might to possess the essence of each other's otherness, we would inevitably fail.

  Angela Carter

  Morning, Children, Moving

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• The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Fate, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Love, Beautiful, Gay

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR™S TALES (Holiday Classics Series): Including Anne Shirley Series”, p.512, e-artnow

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• Occasionally some individuals let the seeming ordinariness of life dampen their spirits. Though actually coping and growning, others lack the quiet, inner-soul satisfaction that can steady them, and are experiencing instead, a lingering sense that there is something more important they should be doing . . .as if what is quietly achieved in righteous individual living or in parenthood are not sufficiently spectacular.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Soul, Important, Satisfaction

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• Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Healing, Doe

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2009). “Powers”, p.291, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Madness is not what it seems. Time stops. All my life I've been obsessed with time, its motion and velocity, the way it works you over, the way it rushes you onward, a pebble turning in a brook. I've always been obsessed with where I'd go, and what I'd do, and how I would live. I've always harbored a desperate hope that I would make something of myself. Not then. Time stopped seeming so much like the thing that would transform me into something worthwhile and began to be inseparable from death. I spent my time merely waiting.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Waiting, Pebbles, Velocity

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• If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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