Seems Quotes - Page 37

• It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn't see coming and may have wandered down by mistake. The older we get the more willing we are to follow those, to surprise ourselves.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mistake, May, Path

  Anna Quindlen (2012). “Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life”, p.87, Random House

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• Maybe all wondrous books appear in our lives the way Milo’s tollbooth appears, an inexplicable gift, cast up by some curious chance that comes to feel, after we have finished and fallen in love with the book, like the workings of a secret purpose. Of all the enchantments of beloved books the most mysterious-the most phantasmal-is the way they always seem to come our way precisely when we need them.

  Michael Chabon

  Book, Secret, Enchantment

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• Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.

  Horace Mann

  Men, Views, Forever

  Horace Mann (1871). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its Twenty-ninth Anniversary”, p.80

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• The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.

  Mark Twain

  Matter, May, Spirit

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• Persistence is probably the single most common quality of high achievers. They simply refuse to give up. They longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist the more likely your success.

  Jack Canfield

  Giving Up, Persistence, Quality

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Feb 17, 2013

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• Jesus does not want us to say, dead, for, He said, all live unto Him, though they seem dead to us.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Jesus, Doe, Want

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Baseball, Growing Up, Firsts

  W. P. Kinsella (1999). “Shoeless Joe”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This thing that haunts you, that never seems satisfied, the cravings in your soul that you are unable to satiate through all the success that the world can bring this is your soul screaming for God.

  Erwin McManus

  Soul, World, Satisfied

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit”, p.143, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

  Richard Linklater

  Artist, Mind, Criminals

  "You can't hold back the human spirit". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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• How sweet Japanese woman is! All the possibilities of the race for goodness seem to be concentrated in her.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Sweet, Race, Goodness

  Lafcadio Hearn (2008). “The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn Including the Japanese Letters”, p.137, Wildside Press LLC

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• God does not waste an ounce of our pain or a drop of our tears; suffering doesn't come our way for no reason, and He seems especially efficient at using what we endure to mold our character. If we are malleable, He takes our bumps and bruises and shapes them into something beautiful.

  Frank Peretti

  Beautiful, Pain, Character

  Frank E. Peretti (2003). “No More Bullies: For Those Who Wound or Are Wounded”, p.179, Thomas Nelson

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• Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

  Frank Pittman

  Parent, Progress, Distrust

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• Friends are a weird thing. It seems like they know all about you, but then they don’t understand you at all.

  Natsuo Kirino

  Weird Things, Knows

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• It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.

  Anita Diament

  Remember, Forgotten, Holy

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• Walking on the land or digging in the fine soil I am intensely aware that time quivers slightly, changes occurring in imperceptible and minute ways, accumulating so subtly that they seem not to exist. Yet the tiny shifts in everything--cell replication, the rain of dust motes, lengthening hair, wind-pushed rocks--press inexorably on and on.

  Annie Proulx

  Rain, Hair, Rocks

  Annie Proulx (2011). “Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• Even when there seems to be nothing else, there is hope.

  Ralph Marston

  There Is Hope

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• We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given the choice between conflict and change on the one hand, and inertia on the other, the ostrich position can seem very attractive.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Ostriches, Hands, Issues

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• Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

  Vanna Bonta

  War, Insane, World

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• Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

  R. D. Laing

  Lying, Deceiving, Capacity

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• When the heart is filled with love everything seems beautiful & delightful to us.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Beautiful, Heart, Baha

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• Every time a cool rock chick or actress seems to respect themselves as a strong woman, I'm like, 'Yeah!' And I love them, and they're my girls. And then they start to go downhill and people aren't paying attention anymore. So they start stripping their clothes off, because that's all they have left. I swear to everything I've ever known, I will never do that

  Amy Lee

  Girl, Strong Women, Rocks

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• For some decades now, it seems, there has been a ukase in place in American journalism to the effect that Canada is entitled to one story per season.

  Stockwell Day

  Stories, Canada, Journalism

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• The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer’s personality that she seems to be sitting beside us, looking at us directly and talking just as she really would, could she have come on a magic carpet, instead of sending her proxy in ink-made characters on mere paper.

  Emily Post

  Character, Talking, Personality

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.502, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Running is a gift I give myself almost daily. Even at days when everything seems to go wrong, I treat myself on the satisfaction of a lap of 30 to 40 minutes.

  Arthur Blank

  Running, Giving, Lap

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• I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance.

  Saul Williams

  Growing, Excited, Vinyl

  "Infecting Nike, Initiating Obama: An Interview With Saul Williams". Interview with Scott Thill, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 28, 2008.

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