Seems Quotes - Page 20

• There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
  The earth, and every common sight,
  To me did seem
  Apparelled in celestial light,
  The glory and the freshness of a dream.

  William Wordsworth

  Dream, Light, Sight

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 1 (1807)

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• Humankind is being led along an evolving course, through this migration of intelligences, and though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and that will eventually startle us back to the truth.

  Rumi

  Life, Dream, Truth

  "Selected Poems".

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• Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want. I used to think that the notoriously bad cooking of the English was an example to the contrary, and that the English cook the way they do because, through sheer technical deficiency, they had not been able to master the art of cooking. I have discovered to my stupefaction that the English cook that way because that is the way they like it.

  Waverley Root

  Country, Art, Food

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• It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Life, Thinking, Cooking

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.388, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To love someone is to always see them as the miracle that they are; as the miracle that they exist, the miracle that makes your own simultaneous existence seem fortunately improbable and therefore defiantly miraculous; is to show them, in your eyes and through the way in which you look at them, the limitless beauty of their true miraculous selves; is to say to them in every glance: "I believe in miracles because i believe in you."

  Philip K. Jason

  Love, Believe, Eye

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• And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Worthy

  William Wordsworth (1828). “The Poetical Works”, p.227

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• Love is a four-letter word, but you don't hear in nearly as often as you hear some other four-letter words. It may be a sign of our times that everyone talks openly about sex, but we seem to be embarrassed to talk about love.

  Thomas Sowell

  Love, Sex, Four

  Thomas Sowell (1999). “Barbarians Inside the Gates--and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Stars, Sleep

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1871). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.18

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• When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Nature, Men

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• Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof. Take that Poppy seed, for instance: it lies in your palm, the merest atom of matter, hardly visible, a speck, a pin's point in bulk, but within it is imprisoned a spirit of beauty ineffable, which will break its bonds and emerge from the dark ground and blossom in a splendor so dazzling as to baffle all powers of description.

  Celia Thaxter

  Beauty, Lying, Dark

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.3, Applewood Books

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• What is the purpose and meaning and nature of sexual intercourse? It seems to me to be quite clear. It's for two things. It's for babies and it's for bonding. And that's what happens when you have sexual intercourse - you have babies and you bond. My view is, if you don't want to have babies and you don't want to bond, then you shouldn't be having sexual intercourse.

  Janet E. Smith

  Baby, Two, Views

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• The Church will be punished because the majority of her members, high and low, will become so perverted. The Church will sink deeper and deeper until she will at last seem to be extinguished, and the succession of Peter and the other Apostles to have expired. But, after this, she will be victoriously exalted in the sight of all doubters.

  Nicholas of Flue

  Powerful, Sight, Catholic

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• At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must find the courage to dream. To reclaim romance. The romance of believing in justice, in freedom, and in dignity. For everybody.

  Arundhati Roy

  Dream, Believe, Business Deals

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.237, Penguin Books India

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• We start out as pretty creative beings... Children let their imaginations take them to place they've never seen and do things that seem impossible. We encourage it as fun and playtime, but we should celebrate it as the potential for great discovery and accomplishment.

  Harvey Mackay

  Children, Fun, Discovery

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• Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.

  Maria Sharapova

  Tennis, Effort, Pay

  "Sharapova matches court brilliance with heartfelt speech after winning 3rd Grand Slam title" by The Associated Press, www.espn.com. Janaury 26, 2008.

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• The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead.

  John Boorman

  Passion, Doe, Unbearable

  "Projections: A Forum for Film Makers, Volume 1". Book edited by John Boorman and Walter Donohue, 1992.

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• There are more stars known to exist right now than the total number of all the grains of sand on every beach in the entire world. With those kinds of odds, it would seem downright naive for someone to go to a beach in, say, some out-of-the-way inlet in Baffin Bay, stoop to pick up only one tiny grain of sand, and declare that that grain alone was the only place where life could exist.

  Hugh Downs

  Beach, Stars, Spring

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• Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Time, Truth, Special

  'Zwischen Wasser und Urwald' (On the Edge of the Primeval Forest, 1922) ch. 11

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• The important point is to be on the spot at the moment most favorable for gaining the desired advantage; and it will be found that of men who get what they want in this world, both those who seem to hasten and those who seem to lounge are always at the right place at the right time.

  David Graham Phillips

  Time, Men, Important

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• Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.

  Larry Harvey

  Real, Struggle, Community

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• When we have "second thoughts" about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Justice, Feelings, Firsts

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• A mother's love is like a fortress, And we seek protection there, When the waves of tribulation, Seem to drown us in despair.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Family, Mother, Love Is

  Helen Steiner Rice, Virginia J. Ruehlmann (1999). “Gifts of Love”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Retirement, Analysis, Gone

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• Tal's combinations often exert a sort of paralysing influence on the opponent's play. It would seem that the element of surprise plays a big part in this.

  Mark Taimanov

  Play, Elements, Opponents

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• I really am a thinker. I don't do things rash. I know some of the things I've said or the way I act seem rash. But I do take ownership of it. I don't say things I don't mean.

  Bode Miller

  Mean, Way, Ownership

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