Seeming Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Just as experience dictates to the ballet teacher the length of time necessary to train his students, so the horse, too, needs time to mature into a great four legged dancer. This fact cannot be obliterated by seeming successes that supposedly prove the opposite. For, even if someone should succeed in training a horse to high school level by the age of eight, this individual occurrence cannot shake the foundations of the classical art of riding, if this dressage horse is completely unsound and unusable by the age of ten.

  Alois Podhajsky

  Teacher, Horse, Art

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• A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming discord.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Acceptance, Mind, World

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1986). “Self-realization”

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• We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Entrepreneur, Succeed, Terror

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• 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. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.

  John Milton

  Christian, Running, Race

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 12

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• Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful; Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious To have mistrusted her.

  William Shakespeare

  Beautiful, Heart, Eye

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1095, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Birds fascinated her. How did they do that, seeming to fly with one mind, each of them able to anticipate what the others would do?

  Suzanne Weyn

  Bird, Mind, Able

  Suzanne Weyn (2012). “The Bar Code Rebellion”, p.17, Scholastic Inc.

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• Whatsoever accidents or qualities our senses make us think there be in the world, they are not there, but are seemings and apparitions only. The things that really are in the world without us, are those motions by which these seemings are caused. And this is the great deception of sense, which also is by sense to be corrected. For as sense telleth me, when I see directly, that the colour seemeth to be in the object; so also sense telleth me, when I see by reflection, that colour is not in the object.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Science, Thinking, Reflection

  "Elements of Law, Natural and Political".

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• And I walk out of space Into an overgrown garden of values, And tear up seeming stability And self-comprehension of causes. And your, infinity, textbook I read by myself, without people - Leafless, savage medical book, A problem book of gigantic radicals.

  Osip Mandelstam

  Book, Garden, Space

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• God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Home, People, Ordinary

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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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• Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Book, Effort, Literature

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• Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.

  John Wanamaker

  Lying, Believe, Hype

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• The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Thinking, Goal, March

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

  Sivananda

  Patience, Failure, Understanding

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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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• Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Would Be, Visionaries

  "Jerry Saltz on Richard Artschwager, 1923-2013". www.vulture.com. February 9, 2013.

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• Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Real

  Ford Times, Vol. 6, p. 136, 1912.

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• I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Knowing, Feelings, Trying

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• A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Garden, Natural, Should

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as people became accustomed to me and my habits, and to such shadows of peculiarity as were engrained in my nature - shades, certainly not striking enough to interest, and perhaps not prominent enough to offend, but born in and with me, and no more to be parted with than my identity - but slow degrees I became a frequenter of this straight narrow path.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Long, People, Shadow

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• TIME WENT ON, life with the children unfolding in its own ecosystem, small plastic toys seeming to grow up from the carpet like mushrooms, clothes falling to the floor like autumn leaves. Every once in a while she would blaze through the house and clean everything-at which point, the process would start all over.

  Erica Bauermeister

  Children, Growing Up, Fall

  Erica Bauermeister (2011). “Joy For Beginners”, p.63, Penguin

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