Seems Quotes - Page 32

• I feel simply carried along each hour, doing my part in a plan which is far beyond myself. […] My part is to live this hour in continuous inner conversation with God and in perfect responsiveness to His will. This seems to be all I need to think about.

  Frank Laubach

  Thinking, Perfect, Needs

  Frank Laubach (2012). “Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach”, p.9, SPCK

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• While love is common, true love is rare, and I believe that few people are fortunate enough to experience it. The roads of regular love are well traveled and their markers are well understood by many - the mesmerizing attraction, the idealization obsession, the sexual afterglow, the profound self-sacrifice, and the desire to combine DNA. But true love takes its own course through uncharted territory. It knows no fences, eludes modern measurement, and seems scientifically woolly. But I know true love exists. I just can’t prove it.

  David Buss

  Believe, Sacrifice, Love Is

  37 Copy quote

• The Broken Bow group is such a great family and seem like a group of tight-knit people. When I looked for a new label, I wanted to feel I could trust everybody. I wanted motivation to be at an all-time high.

  Fatima Siad

  Motivation, People, Broken

  4 Copy quote

• Why is it that beautiful women never seem to have curiosity? Is it because they know they're classical? With classical things the Lord finished the job. Ordinary ugly people know they're deficient and they go on looking for the pieces.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Beautiful, Jobs, People

  5 Copy quote

• Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.  Everything has to be filled in, it seems-appointment books, hillsides, vacant lots-but when all the spaces are filled, the Loneliness really begins.  Then the Groups are joined, the Classes are signed up for, and the Gift-to-Yourself items are bought.  When the Loneliness starts creeping in the door, the Television Set is turned on to make it go away.  But it doesn't go away.  So some of us do instead, and after discarding the emptiness of the Big Congested Mess, we discover the fullness of Nothing.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Loneliness, Book, Class

  7 Copy quote

• What’s strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above or beyond this subject more fit for a schoolchild than the future author of great literature.

  Francine Prose

  Thinking, Literature, Strange

  4 Copy quote

• Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

  H. Richard Niebuhr

  Philosophy, Men, Views

  17 Copy quote

• One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.

  Jeff Goodell

  Nice, Climate, Frogs

  15 Copy quote

• No Compromise is what the whole Gospel of Jesus is all about... 'For I tell you...no man can serve two masters...' (Matt. 6:24). In a day when believers seem to be trying to please both the world and the Lord (which is an impossible thing), when people are far more concerned about offending their friends than offending God, there is only one answer...Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Him!

  Keith Green

  Jesus, Men, Impossible Things

  169 Copy quote

• It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

  Carlisle Floyd

  Art, Opera, Relevant

  45 Copy quote

• Sometimes customizing is necessary because of an injury or the inability to do, for a short or long period, the kind of exercise you formerly did. When you're used to customizing for fun, doing it under duress won't seem like such an imposition. Either way, experiment until you find activities that make you happy as well as healthy. Choose your exercise using the same criteria you'd apply to choosing a date--that is, attractive to you and able to hold your interest for an hour.

  Victoria Moran

  Fun, Exercise, Weight Loss

  4 Copy quote

• I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Men, Grace, Way

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.6, Regnery Publishing

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Children, People, Sometimes

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  83 Copy quote

• In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort of hard to believe because, until you get good at it, knitting seems to cause those ailments. The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Believe, Eye, Knitting

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.51, Storey Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Seems like the more you grow, the more time you spend alone, before you know it you end up perfectly on your own.

  Lights

  Ends, More Time, Grows

  Song: Face Up, Album: The Listening, 2009

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• This is what you have to ask yourself: Do you want to be good, or just seem good? Do you want to be good to yourself and others? Do you care about other people, always, sometimes, never? Or only when convenient? What kind of person do you want to be?

  Charles Yu

  People, Care, Want

  Charles Yu (2012). “Sorry Please Thank You: Stories”, p.48, Vintage

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• All God makes is good.  Can it be that that which seems to oppose the will of God actually is used of Him to accomplish the will of God?

  Ann Voskamp

  Used, Accomplish, Gods Will

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.88, Zondervan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I had the perspective of the whole, perhaps I'd see it? That which seems evil, is it a cloud to bring rain, to bring a greater good to the whole of the world? Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?

  Ann Voskamp

  Perseverance, Rain, Clouds

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.90, Zondervan

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• So many people seem to spend their lives trying to appear normal, predictable and consistent to themselves and those that surround them. They just end up bored with themselves, bereft of any depth of inner resources, suffocated by the inhibitions that defend their own monolithic identities.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Life, Self, People

  "Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1995.

  75 Copy quote

  Show source

• It seems now that the place where you see
  the most obvious censorship is on college campuses --
  the precise place where you would expect to see the least.

  Alan Charles Kors

  College, Censorship, Campus

  6 Copy quote

• Part of the excitement was just seeing how the world would respond. I kind of like uncertainty to some extent, because it's a little bit of suspense and excitement and adventure, almost, right? And you can learn a lot even if things don't work out. But not everyone likes adventure. A lot of people seem to be against uncertainty, actually. In all areas of life.

  Paul Buchheit

  Adventure, People, Work Out

  4 Copy quote

• The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable.

  Geneen Roth

  Spiritual, Purpose, Way

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding stuff. It's like all the books are fighting against decay, against turning into dust, and at the same time fighting for attention.

  Carrie Jones

  Book, Fighting, Dust

  Carrie Jones (2010). “Need”, p.50, Bloomsbury Publishing

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• People who truly have control over time always have some in their pocket to give to someone in need. A sense of priorities drives their use of time and it can shift away from the ordinary work that’s easy to justify, in favor of the more ethereal, deeper things that are harder to justify. They protect their time from trivia and idiocy; these people are time rich. They provide themselves with a surplus of time. They might seem to idle, or relax more often than the rest, but that just might be a sign of their mastery, not their incompetence.

  Scott Berkun

  People, Giving, Priorities

  4 Copy quote