Seeming Quotes - Page 9

• Seeming contentment is real discontent, combined with indolence or self-indulgence, which, while taking no legitimate means of raising itself, delights in bringing others down to its own level.

  John Stuart Mill

  Real, Mean, Self

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “Considerations on Representative Government”, p.86, John Stuart Mill

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• Enough of self, that darling luscious theme,
  O'er which philosophers in raptures dream;
  Of which with seeming disregard they write
  Then prizing most when most they seem to slight.

  Charles Churchill

  Dream, Writing, Self

  Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.163

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• The eyelids confess, and reject, and refuse to reject. They have expressed all things ever since man was man. And they express so much by seeming to hide or to reveal that which indeed expresses nothing. For there is no message from the eye. It has direction, it moves, in the service of the sense of sight; it receives the messages of the world. But expression is outward, and the eye has it not. There are no windows of the soul, there are only curtains.

  Alice Meynell

  Moving, Eye, Men

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• Many events seem to happen twice to me; even trifles, unimportant-seeming, recur, as if I were destined to live them again, time reconquered, but with added knowledge and a different outcome.

  Han Suyin

  Events, Different, Outcomes

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• When better cherries are not to be had,
  We needs must take the seeming best of bad.

  Samuel Daniel

  Needs, Cherries

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• The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpretation of all revelation, the key to all the seeming contradictions of the physical and moral world.

  Max Muller

  Philosophy, Keys, Perfection

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 287, 1895.

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• Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Blessing, Soul, Disguise

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• I look to the women who epitomize old Hollywood glamour, like Rita Hayworth. She had a way of making sophisticated clothes look sexy without ever seeming sleazy or cheap.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Sexy, Clothes, Hollywood

  "Jennifer Talks". Interview with Veronica Chambers, www.glamour.com. July 1, 2007.

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• I believe that people, more often than not, act with the best possible intentions. And when they don't, that's funny to me. That's why comedy ends up seeming cynical, because you're talking about the gap between what people say and what they do.

  Stephen Colbert

  Believe, Talking, People

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• Failure is nothing but success trying to be born in a bigger way. Most seeming failures are just installments toward victory!

  Catherine Ponder

  Failure, Victory, Trying

  Catherine Ponder (2016). “The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity”, p.79, Lulu.com

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• If you happen to find it hard to have sustained conversations, try keeping your voice up at the end of the sentence. There is a charming graciousness in doing so, for it seems to say that you do not think your remarks are the last words to be said on the subject. It prevents you from seeming opinionated. How men dislike an opinionated woman! No one really likes her! To keep your voice up sounds as though you are interested in other people's ideas. The subject is still open!

  Margery Wilson

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

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• The words you can't find, you borrow.
  We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.
  My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.
  We are not quite novels.
  The analogy he is looking for is almost there.
  We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that.
  In the end, we are collected works.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Book, Heart, Stories

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• The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.

  Leland Stanford

  Hype, Appearance, Results

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• The ever-present expectancy of death is never far removed from any of us - whether we realize it or not. None of us can avoid it. It comes alike to the great and to the unknown; to the righteous and to the unrighteous. Wherein we differ is not in our ability to avert it, but in the preparedness with which we meet it. At such times some question the judgments of God. Some find bitterness because of the circumstances and because of the seeming untimeliness of death.

  Richard L. Evans

  Bitterness, Realizing, Judgment

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• The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Nature, Writing, Reality

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• True worth is in being, not seeming

  Alice Cary

  True Worth

  Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.174

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• But what after all, behind appearances, is this seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself returning again to itself, emerging out of its giant self-forgetfulness, slowly, painfully, as a Life that is would be sentient, half-sentient, dimly sentient, wholly sentient and finally struggles to be more than sentient, to be again divinely selfconscious, free, infinite, immortal.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Self, Growth, Giants

  "The Life Divine: Art of living".

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• She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful. Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white whose gentle voice was soft and sad.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Laughter, Fall

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• A flop is often the result of the fact that each of the talents involved, while working on the same project, may in effect have been working on a different show from all the others. If all contributors do not share the same vision of the evening, the end product will not evince the harmony of diverse elements-the seeming inevitability of book, score, and staging-of a good musical.

  Ethan Mordden

  Book, Musical, Vision

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• There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced labor in prisons and penal colonies, banishment, slavery, all seem for a moment to offer helpful comparisons, but on closer examination lead nowhere.

  Hannah Arendt

  Confusion, Holocaust, Essentials

  Hannah Arendt (1951). “The Burden of Our Time”

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• Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible

  Samuel Johnson

  Reading, Remember, Injury

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.319

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• Amid the turmoil and tumult of battle, there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all.

  Sun Tzu

  Real, Battle, May

  Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, p.7, Booklassic

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• It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Detectives, Dangerous

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• My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

  Roberta Flack

  Anger, Today, Coalitions

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• Much of Hamlet is about the precise kind of slippage the mourner experiences: the difference between being and seeming, the uncertainty about how the inner translates into the outer, the sense that one is expected to perform grief palatably. (If you don’t seem sad, people worry; but if you are grief-stricken, people flinch away from your pain.)

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Pain, Grief, Differences

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.80, Penguin

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