Semblance Quotes - Page 3

• Nostalgia for people, cultures, everything. There's an ability to use these marks to note things that are erased, deleted. Traces are a species of history, of evidence. It's a way for the way the narrator to construct a semblance of self, even though all of this creates a deception, a way to think of one's traces as a real way to define oneself. The trace is fallible, impermanent. It's one of the motives I had in mind throughout the text.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Real, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think one of the best things you can do is write really sad songs that touch some semblance of... I guess 'hope' is the right word?

  Eric Bachmann

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "Crooked Fingers". Interview with Alison Fields, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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• I need the concept of mercy for me to have some semblance of self-admiration. So in real life, I'm probably somebody who is more devout.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Real, Self, Needs

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• I need a semblance of routine so little things, like having my morning cup of English breakfast tea and going to Pilates early before the world gets hectic, keeps me calm.

  Louise Roe

  Morning, Tea, Routine

  "Host of MTV’s Plain Jane, Louise Roe: Family, Blogging and the Little Things". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• No one can do without some semblance of immortality, and even less will they deny themselves the right to seek it out in the form of this or that reputation, starting with the literary... Since death has come to be accepted by all as the absolute end, everyone writes.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Writing, Reputation, Immortality

  "A critic of one's own" by Tim Parks, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2003.

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• We're back around to [Buckminster] Fuller again. Back around to the recognition of patterns, which may be true or may not be. But nevertheless, have enough of a semblance that they're worth exploring. That, to me, is where my work begins.

  Jonathon Keats

  May, Patterns, Buckminster Fuller

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The challenges that young people are mobilizing against oppressive societies all over the globe are being met with a state-sponsored violence that is about more than police brutality. This is especially clear in the United States, given its transformation from a social state to a warfare state, from a state that once embraced a semblance of the social contract to one that no longer has a language for justice, community and solidarity - a state in which the bonds of fear and commodification have replaced the bonds of civic responsibility and democratic vision.

  Henry Giroux

  Responsibility, People, Justice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• You should know that what wakes me up at night, what gets me running fast in the morning, and, frankly, what prompts me to lose any semblance of my habitual reserve is the conviction that work doesn't have to be this grim. We can do better.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Running, Morning, Night

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Marine Le Pen seem to have no respect for the institutions that were created after World War II, and they see a potential alliance of populists around the world who would fight Islam and restore a certain semblance of traditional values.

  David Brooks

  War, Marine, Fighting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.

  John Calvin

  Hypocrisy, Empty, Enough

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.44, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air, the bodies of the soul that built the wonderland shuffled and stalked and stalked and lurched in attitudes of immemorial nightmare all around.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Attitude, Air, Cities

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• It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.... There is a truth which is of Satan. Its essence is that under the semblance of truth it denies everything that is real. It lives upon hatred of the real world which is created and loved by God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Real, Liars, Lying

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• While, politically, a mixed economy preserves the semblance of an organized society with a semblance of law and order, economically it is the equivalent of the chaos that had ruled China for centuries: a chaos of robber gangs looting-and draining-the productive elements of the country.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Order, Law

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.197, Penguin

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• All my life long I have been sensible of the injustice constantly done to women. Since I have had to fight the world single-handed, there has not been one day I have not smarted under the wrongs I have had to bear, because I was not only a woman, but a woman doing a man's work, without any man, husband, son, brother or friend, to stand at my side, and to see some semblance of justice done me. I cannot forget, for injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

  Amelia Barr

  Brother, Husband, Fighting

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• If thou art wise, incline to truth; for truth, not the semblance, remains in its place.

  Saadi

  Wise, Art, Truth

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• Avoid any semblance of pornography. It is dangerous and addictive. If you continue to view pornography, your spirit will become desensitized and your conscience will erode.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Views, Erode, Spirit

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• My pride and identity is wrapped up in my big trips. But I can't always be on one - I need to plan them and fund them, and I want some semblance of a normal life too.

  Andrew Skurka

  Pride, Identity, Needs

  Source: ryanjordan.com

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• I think a lot about the editing of the films when we're making them, partly because I studied that, and partly because if you think about being in love while you're supposed to be acting in love, there's nowhere to go. You have to focus on something else and then do what's being asked, and you might get some semblance of something interesting.

  Paul Schneider

  Being In Love, Thinking, Editing

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. September 30, 2009.

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• The heart of the hypocrite is hid in his breast he masketh his words in the semblance of truth, while the business of his life is only to deceive.

  Akhenaton

  Lying, Hypocrite, Heart

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• If [YouTube] were to switch to Theora and maintain even a semblance of the current YouTube quality it would take up most available bandwidth across the internet.

  Chris DiBona

  Quality, Internet, Currents

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• I am very critical! I hate watching myself but I know I have to because I'm going to be asked so I need to have some sort of semblance of what the films with me are like. But it's not an enjoyable experience watching yourself. I hate it less than I used to but I still don't enjoy it.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Hate, Needs, Film

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!

  Marquis de Sade

  Heart, Virtue, Young

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• Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one can remove all semblance of reality; there is no longer any danger as the idea of the object has left an indelible imprint.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Reality, Ideas

  "Conversation avec Picasso". Interview with Christian Zervos, Cahiers d'Art, Volume X, No. 7-10 (pp. 173-178), 1935; later quoted in Richard Friedenthal "Letters of the Great Artists From Blake to Pollock" translated by Daphne Woodward (pp. 256-257), 1963.

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• If I could get any semblance of - it's not really anonymity, but a little bit more - control over my public image, I guess that would be nice.

  Robert Pattinson

  Nice, Littles, Would Be

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism.

  Pope Francis

  Essentials, Unions, Impossible

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