Seeming Quotes

• If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work.

  Dale Carnegie

  Believe, Belief, Selling

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• The thing is to get the work done.

  Dale Carnegie

  Done, Belief, Work Done

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• Being busy does not always mean real work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Real, Mean, Infinite Intelligence

  Ford Times, Volume 6 (p. 136), 1912.

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• But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Heart, Sleeves

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. 64

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• From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other.

  Albert Einstein

  Purpose, Sake, Daily Life

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• If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.

  Connie Sellecca

  Happiness, Success, Happy

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• Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And things will constantly challenge you. Wherever you look the world is not as solid it seems to be.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Loving Life, Hard Times

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• Be as you wish to seem.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Integrity, Hypocrisy

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• It seemed the more I knew about people the more I knew about the strange magic hidden in their hearts.

  Rudolfo Anaya

  Inspirational, Heart, Knowing

  Rudolfo A. Anaya (1972). “Bless Me, Ultima: A Novel”, Tqs Publications

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• 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

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• So what you're saying is, I'm your brand of heroin?" I teased, trying to lighten the mood. He smiled swiftly, seeming to appreciate my effort. "Yes, you are exactly my brand of heroin.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Appreciate, Effort, Trying

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• Madness is not what it seems. Time stops. All my life I've been obsessed with time, its motion and velocity, the way it works you over, the way it rushes you onward, a pebble turning in a brook. I've always been obsessed with where I'd go, and what I'd do, and how I would live. I've always harbored a desperate hope that I would make something of myself. Not then. Time stopped seeming so much like the thing that would transform me into something worthwhile and began to be inseparable from death. I spent my time merely waiting.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Waiting, Pebbles, Velocity

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• How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but "older," if that makes sense. As someone I like to look at, not just because you're good to look at, but because just looking at you makes me smile and feel happier. As someone who knows her mind and who I envy for that. As someone who is strong in herself without seeming to need anyone else to help her. As someone who makes me thinks and unsettles me in a way that makes me feel more alive.

  Aidan Chambers

  Strong, Thinking, Envy

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• Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

  Albert Einstein

  Happiness, Journey, Men

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• My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.

  Khalil Gibran

  Silence, House, Identity

  Khalil Gibran (1918). “The Madman”, p.3, Library of Alexandria

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• There are things you won't know unless you try to find out. it's possible to notice things without seeming to. You're not a kid who doesn't know what a word says unless someone tells him. And how many years have you gone on living like that?

  Kazuya Minekura

  Kids, Years, Trying

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• I was at a loss suddenly; but conscious all the while of how Armand listened; that he listened in the way that we dream of others listening, his face seeming to reflect on every thing said. He did not start forward to seize on my slightest pause, to assert an understanding of something before the thought was finished, or to argue with a swift, irresistible impulse -- the things which often make dialogue impossible. And after a long interval he said, 'I want you. I want you more than anything in the world.

  Anne Rice

  Dream, Loss, Long

  Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.262, Ballantine Books

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• Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world , individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. (Wakefield)

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Confusion, Forever

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)”, p.1613, Delphi Classics

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• Jem seemed to look through her then, as if he were seeing something beyond her, beyond the corridor, beyond the Institute itself. "Whatever you are physically," he said, "male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside." He smiled them, seeming to have come back to himself, slightly embarrassed. "That's what I believe.

  Cassandra Clare

  Strong, Believe, Heart

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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• Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Unrequited Love, Sleep

  William Shakespeare (2008). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.40, Barron's Educational Series

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• Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Art, Bored, Touching

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• Ordinarily, of course, I thought it best to remain inconspicuous, but the gesture had a certain irresistable theatricaility, and an inevitablility. Sometimes you can feel the pull of what other people want from you, and you sacrifice yourself, you risk seeming odd or sunsavory, to keep them entertained.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Sacrifice, People, Risk

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• At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

  Che Guevara

  Life, Thinking, Feelings

  Ernesto Guevara, David Deutschmann (2003). “Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution”, p.225, Ocean Press

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• Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

  Jerry Saltz

  Topography, Alternatives, World

  "Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz Answers Your Questions About George Condo, Online Art Fairs, and What Abstraction Really Is" by Jerry Saltz, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2011.

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• The Germans now seem the primary example of this [institutional-maintenance type] - which is another reason to scratch the head at their seeming determination to force the whole Church to adopt the Catholic Lite approach that has, in a bizarre inversion, emptied German churches of congregants while vastly expanding the German Church's bureaucracies.

  George Weigel

  Determination, Catholic, Church

  Source: eppc.org

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