Seems Quotes - Page 22

• The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.

  Sarada Devi

  Men, Play, Differences

  Sarada Devi (1984). “The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi”

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• Never complain or make excuses. If something seems unfair, just prove yourself by working twice as hard and being twice as good.

  Amy Chua

  Complaining, Excuse, Unfair

  Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There are all these new books out there portraying Asian mothers as scheming, callous, overdriven people indifferent to their kids' true interests. For their part, many Chinese secretly believe that they care more about their children and are willing to sacrifice much more for them than Westerners, who seem perfectly content to let their children turn out badly. I think it's a misunderstanding on both sides. All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.

  Amy Chua

  Mother, Children, Believe

  "But Will It All Make 'Tiger Mom' Happy?" by Janet Maslin, www.nytimes.com. January 19, 2011.

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• If the milk industry can make their product seem sexy and increase consumer demand, there must be hope for music.

  Gary Arnold

  Sexy, Demand, Milk

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• Ten years ago she split the air To seize what she could spy Tonight she bumps against a chair, Betrayed by milky eye. She seems to pant, Time up, time up! My little dog must die, And lie in dust with Hector's pup; I So, presently, must I.

  Ogden Nash

  Dog, Time, Betrayal

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• If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

  Richard Miller

  Jobs, Procrastination, Inspire

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• Golf is a terrible, hopeless addiction, it seems: it makes its devotees willing to trudge miles in any manner of weather, lugging a huge, incommodious and appallingly heavy bag with them, in pursuit of a tiny and fantastically expensive ball, in a fanatical attempt to direct it into a hole the size of a beer glass half a mile away. If anything could be better calculated to convince one of the essential lunacy of the human race, I haven't found it.

  Mike Seabrook

  Beer, Golf, Glasses

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• It takes a minute to say hello
  Why? I wonder why
  When it's seems to take forever
  When you have to say Goodbye?

  John Walter Bratton

  Goodbye, Farewell, Forever

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• This goodbye will only seem
  Like an eternal pain
  If I fail to merely miss you
  Until we meet again
  As we assuredly will
  I've made my mind up

  John Walter Bratton

  Goodbye, Pain, Farewell

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• A shop bought card saying Get Well Soon. Didn't seem to fit the bill. This hand made card hopes that pretty soon... ...You'll be galloping up that hill.

  John Walter Bratton

  Get Well Soon, Hands, Cards

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• When everything else seems unclear, at least I'll know I do it for the joy it brings.

  Ani DiFranco

  Life, Joy, Knows

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• Don't convince yourself you're over, don't convince yourself you're done, just because the things around you seem heavy, doesn't mean you can't get off this ground.

  Dave Matthews

  Life, Mean, Done

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• There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable. Soon or late the laws governing the production of life itself will be discovered in the laboratory, and man may set up business as a creator on his own account. The thing, indeed, is not only conceivable; it is even highly probable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Health, Men

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• If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wanted Terri in her full natural bloom, not with any blooming flower.

  Audrey Meadows

  Mother, Stupid, Flower

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• When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad.

  Patrick Swayze

  Dancing, Going Away

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• Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.

  Lucy Ellmann

  Girl, Baby, Women

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• When you stop needing more of everything, more of what you desire seems to arrive in your life.

  Wayne Dyer

  Self Improvement, Desire, Improvement

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “The Invisible Force: 365 Ways to Apply the Power of Intention to Your Life: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.289, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The Pacific Yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung, breast and ovarian cancer in patients who would otherwise quickly die... It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human life - until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated.

  Al Gore

  Cancer, Cutting, Sacrifice

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.119, Routledge

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• A tree, young or old, if admired, remains a definite vision, and when after long absence it is visited again, the meeting place is approached with feelings of pleasure and curiosity as to how one's friend had fared, even with thoughts as to what changes may come to tree or visitor since first they met; this may seem like a foolish sentiment - perhaps it is. But, after all, sentiment is mingled with most that's best in life.

  Charles Eley

  Long, Tree, Feelings

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• Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Tree, Vigor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1490, Delphi Classics

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• And the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Summer, Dream

  Elizabeth Von Arnim (2006). “Elizabeth and Her German Garden”, p.39, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• And hate the bright stillness of the noon without wind, without motion. the only other living thing a hawk, hungry for prey, suspended in the blinding, sunlit blue. And yet how gentle it seems to someone raised in a landscape short of rain- the skyline of a hill broken by no more trees than one can count, the grass, the empty sky, the wish for water.

  Dana Gioia

  Summer, Hate, Rain

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.35, Macmillan

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• I am the Lorax! I speak for the trees, Which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please; But I also speak for the brown Barbaloots, Who frolicked and played in their Barbaloot suits, Happily eating Truffula fruits. Now, since you've chopped the trees to the ground There's not enough Truffula fruit to go 'round! And my poor Barbaloots are all feeling the crummies Because they have gas, and no food, in their tummies.

  Dr. Seuss

  Tree, Feelings, Fruit

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• In the country It seems as if every tree Said to me 'Holy! Holy!' Who can ever express The ecstasy of the woods! Almighty One, In the woods I am blessed. Happy every one in the woods. Every tree speaks through Thee. O God! What glory in the woodland.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Country, Blessed, Tree

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• Clout is something some seem to have-until they try exercising it.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Exercise, Power, Trying

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