Seeming Quotes - Page 5

• 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

  Truth, Errors, Roots

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• Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Country, Travel, Home

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “The Sympaty of Religions”, p.16

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• If you happen to find it hard to have sustained conversations, try keeping your voice up at the end of the sentence. There is a charming graciousness in doing so, for it seems to say that you do not think your remarks are the last words to be said on the subject. It prevents you from seeming opinionated. How men dislike an opinionated woman! No one really likes her! To keep your voice up sounds as though you are interested in other people's ideas. The subject is still open!

  Margery Wilson

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

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• The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Successful, Men, Stones

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• It's terrible feeling like an eligible bachelor but no women seeming to agree with you.

  Pete Townshend

  Feelings, Bachelors, Terrible

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• Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is the business of all religious doctrines to keep their votaries in a state of intellectual infancy (how else do they keep absurdities seeming credible?), insufficient numbers of Catholics have been able to be sensible.

  A.C. Grayling

  Religious, Men, Views

  A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books

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• Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming contradictions, redaction and myths passed off as verifiable history.

  A. N. Wilson

  Christian, Listening, Church

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• Ewan McGregor stars as Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi, again doing a fine Alec Guinness impersonation but otherwise seeming lost and alone in the galaxy as the one actor attempting to give a real performance in this mess.

  Stephanie Zacharek

  Stars, Real, Giving

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• I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict, the personalities, the violence, the distrust, and the seeming lack of viable solutions made meaningful involvement feel impossible. What changed that, for me, was changing the vantage point.

  Jason Alexander

  Meaningful, Personality, Vantage Point

  "Playing Your Role: A Middle East Peace Drama" by Jason Alexander, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 14, 2013.

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• Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by. Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chimera.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Dog, Clever, Home

  Jerome K. Jerome “Clocks”, Library of Alexandria

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• The God who inspired the Bible is the same God who made the universe, Earth, and all life. This God is the very definition of truth; therefore nature's record will never contradict Scripture and vice versa. When a seeming contradiction confronts us, we can know with certainty we have either misunderstood (one, the other, or both revelations) or perhaps we haven't yet dug deploy enough. Whatever the case, we can embrace the opportunity to gain greater knowledge and appreciation for the Bible, for nature, and for the God who is responsible for both.

  Hugh Ross

  Appreciation, Opportunity, Misunderstood

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• See that your chief study be about heart, that there God's image may be planted, and his interest advanced, and the interest of the world and flesh subdued, and the love of every sin cast out, and the love of holiness succeed; and that you content not yourselves with seeming to do good in outward acts, when you are bad yourselves, and strangers to the great internal duties. The first and great work of a Christian is about his heart.

  Richard Baxter

  Christian, Heart, World

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The practical works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: with a life of the author, and a critical examination of his writings”, p.531

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• It was loud in spots and less loud in other spots, and it had that quality which I have noticed in all violin solos of seeming to last much longer than it actually did.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Quality, Violin, Lasts

  P.G. Wodehouse (1989). “Aunts Omnibus”, Hutchinson

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• In short form I'll say it was an approach to the family and to [author] Jon Krakauer that then led to me seeming to rise to the top of the heap of several filmmakers that were trying to get the rights. And by top of the heap I mean in terms of being somebody that was trusted to do it as they said they were going to attempt to do it and that this way of doing it would be something they would be willing to allow.

  Sean Penn

  Mean, Rights, Trying

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• With the help of the Lord, you can handle life's challenges and heartaches, even the valley of the shadow of death. What comfort your fainting heart has, knowing that in those stumbling times of discouragement and despair, of depletion and seeming defeat, the Shepherd will find you...restore and "fix" you...and follow you...until you are well on your way.

  Elizabeth George

  Peace, Heart, Knowing

  Elizabeth George (2009). “Quiet Confidence for a Woman's Heart: The Power of God's Restoration and Healing”, p.72, Harvest House Publishers

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• The bomb was necessary to awaken England from her dreams. We dropped the bomb on the floor of the assembly chamber to register our protest on behalf of those who had no other means left to give expression to their heart-rending agony. Our sole purpose was to make the deaf hear and give the heedless a timely warning. Others have as keenly felt as we have done and from such seeming stillness of the sea of Indian humanity, a veritable storm is about to break out.

  Bhagat Singh

  Dream, Heart, Mean

  Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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• The joy of God is so exquisite that any sacrifice is worth the effort and seeming pain.

  David Hawkins

  Pain, Sacrifice, Effort

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• My whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche...it's one of the reasons a lot of my generation are always on the fence about things. They're afraid to commit to anything for fear of seeming like a cliche. They're afraid to commit to their lives because they see so much of the world as a cliche.

  Beck

  Generations, World, Cliche

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• Money gained on Sabbath-day is a loss, I dare to say. No blessing can come with that which comes to us, on the devil's back, by our willful disobedience of God's law. The loss of health by neglect of rest, and the loss of soul by neglect of hearing the gospel, soon turn all seeming profit into real loss.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Real, Loss, Blessing

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1889). “The Salt-cellars: Being a Collection of Proverbs, Together with Homely Notes Thereon”

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• I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me

  George Eliot

  People, Speak, Enough

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.84, Penguin

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• To write honestly and with conviction anything about the migration of birds, one should oneself have migrated. Somehow or other we should dehumanize ourselves, feel the feel of feathers on our body and wind in our wings, and finally know what it is to leave abundance and safety and daylight and yield to a compelling instinct, age-old, seeming at the time quite devoid of reason and object.

  William Beebe

  Writing, Wind, Wings

  William Beebe (1954). “A Naturalist's Life of New York”

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• There are intelligible principles inherent in the matter of every phenomenon; because matter is essentially the sum of all the seemings that it has for any and all persons.

  Protagoras

  Principles, Matter, Phenomenon

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

  Gorgias

  Manage, Seems

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• I love Toronto's long autumns, warm with windy swirls of golden spores, redolent with giant, sun-roasted leaves flapping up and down the streets, and horrible winter always seeming far, far off!

  Guy Maddin

  Autumn, Winter, Long

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• 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

  People, Brave, Promise

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