Seeming Quotes - Page 11

• A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Taming, Shrews

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 5, sc. 2, l. 143

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• The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Tea, May, Outsiders

  Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.30, Tuttle Publishing

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• The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Clever, People, World

  Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Slapstick or Lonesome No More”, p.69, Random House

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• Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Men, Differences, Unimportant

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• What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

  John Milton

  Christian, Evil, Vices

  John Milton (2016). “Areopagitica and Other Prose Works”, p.13, Courier Dover Publications

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• Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

  Christopher Fry

  Giving, Attention, Half

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• The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted.

  Charles Bukowski

  Marijuana, Men, Medicine

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Tales of Ordinary Madness”, p.205, City Lights Books

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• If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.

  Lester Levenson

  Spiritual, Perfection, Misery

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• People moving in Heaven move with grace and beauty and slowly glide along with their feet hardly seeming to touch the ground!

  David Berg

  Moving, Feet, People

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• Seeming to do is not doing.

  Thomas A. Edison

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

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• The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.

  William Shakespeare

  Cunning, Wisest

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 97

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• O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies.

  William Shakespeare

  Husband, Men, Bait

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.77, Palgrave Macmillan

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• They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Ambition, Giving, Please

  Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Rose, Thomas Percy, Thomas Campbell (1821). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B..”, p.38

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• On a series of apparently tiresome, flat sittings seeming to lead nowhere - one day something happens, the touches seem to 'take', the deaf canvas listens, your words flow and you have done something.

  Walter Sickert

  One Day, Sitting, Done

  Wendy Baron, Walter Sickert (2006). “Sickert: Paintings and Drawings”, p.91, Yale University Press

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• A paradox is a seeming contradiction, always demanding a change on the side of the observer. If we look at almost all things honestly we see everything has a character of paradox to it. Everything, including ourselves.

  Richard Rohr

  Character, Looks, Sides

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• Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.

  Adam Gopnik

  Player, Drawing, Risk

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• Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Simple, Choices

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• When you most succeed, you do so by seeming not to act at all.

  Stella Adler

  Succeed

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.261, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• That little word 'we' I mistrust and here's why:
  No man of another can say, 'He is I.'
  Behind all agreement lies something amiss
  All seeming accord cloaks a lurking abyss.

  Albert Einstein

  Lying, Men, Littles

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.33, St. Martin's Press

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• I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict.... ever since I became loosely involved with it, it has seemed to me one of the recurring ironies of this movement that there is no way to tell the truth about it without, in some small way, seeming to hurt it.

  Nora Ephron

  Hurt, Two, Feminist

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.135, Vintage

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• Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy.

  Mason Cooley

  Equality, Hierarchy

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• Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.

  John Cheever

  Writing, Stories, Kind

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• I entered an omnibus to go to some place or other. At that moment when I put my foot on the step the idea came to me, without anything in my former thoughts seeming to have paved the way for it, that the transformations I had used to define the Fuchsian functions were identical with non-Euclidean geometry.

  Henri Poincare

  Ideas, Feet, Steps

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• Proofs of the Euclidean [parallel] postulate can be developed to such an extent that apparently a mere trifle remains. But a careful analysis shows that in this seeming trifle lies the crux of the matter; usually it contains either the proposition that is being proved or a postulate equivalent to it.

  Johann Heinrich Lambert

  Lying, Analysis, Matter

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• We could not help being struck by the seeming, though innocent, indifference of Nature to these men's necessities, while elsewhereshe was equally serving others. Like a true benefactress, the secret of her service is unchangeableness. Thus is the busiest merchant, though within sight of his Lowell, put to pilgrim's shifts, and soon comes to staff and scrip and scallop-shell.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Men, Sight

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.98, Penguin

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