Seeming Quotes - Page 9

• It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faults, Facts, States

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.17, Coyote Canyon Press

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• 'Tis the witching hour of night,
  Orbed is the moon and bright.
  And the stars they glisten, glisten,
  Seeming with bright eyes to listen-
  For what listen they?

  John Keats

  Stars, Eye, Science

  John Keats (1867). “The Life and Letters of John Keats”, p.196

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• You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

  George Eliot

  Fear, Eye, People

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.51, Wordsworth Editions

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• When sociobiologists start shitting in their backyards with dinner guests in the vicinity, maybe their arguments about innateness over culture will start seeming more persuasive.

  Laura Kipnis

  Dinner Guests, Backyards, Culture

  Laura Kipnis (2009). “Against Love: A Polemic”, p.24, Vintage

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• There is no use of Evangelicalism seeming to get larger and larger, if at the same time appreciable parts of Evangelicalism are getting soft at that which is the central core, namely the Scriptures.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Use, Scripture, Core

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the Bible as truth”

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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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• She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or an operation, during which he must not be hurried or interfered with. When the man had finished she would be waiting, without fret or impatience, somewhere on a highstool, turning the pages of a newspaper.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Men, Air, Waiting

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.438, e-artnow

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• Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.

  Ann Brashares

  Bridges, People, Fake

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.45, Delacorte Press

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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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• Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

  Roberto Bolano

  Sea, Water, Way

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• Because,' Cormery went on, 'when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone ... you paid attention to me and, without seeming to, you opened for me the door to everything I love in the world.

  Albert Camus

  Doors, Attention, World

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• Is the brain, which is notably double in structure, a double organ, 'seeming parted, but yet a union in partition'?

  Henry Maudsley

  Brain, Unions, Structure

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• Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual findings of paleontology. Following phyletic lines through time seemed to reveal only minimal gradual changes but no clear evidence for any change of a species into a different genus or for the gradual origin of an evolutionary novelty. Anything truly novel always seemed to appear quite abruptly in the fossil record.

  Ernst Mayr

  Long, Population, Different

  Ernst Mayr (1991). “One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought”, p.138, Harvard University Press

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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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• 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.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Knowing, Purpose

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.230, Princeton University Press

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• By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.

  Anthony Collins

  Mean, Judging, Understanding

  Anthony Collins (1713). “A Discourse of Free-thinking: Occasion'd by the Rise and Growth of a Sect Call'd Free-thinkers ...”, p.10

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• Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.

  Dale Carnegie

  Wrestling, Done, World

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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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• Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life, not by our standard of living; by our measure of giving, not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness, not by our seeming greatness.

  William Arthur Ward

  Life, Simple, Greatness

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• Regardless of the day or the hour; whether in seeming good times or bad, the Christian lives in the world for the good of the world and for the sake of the world.

  Harold Lindsell

  Christian, World, Sake

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• Instead of seeming to impose new obligations, they should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a horizon of beauty and who invite others to a delicious banquet. It is not by proselytizing that the Church grows, but by attraction.

  Pope Francis

  Faith, Inspiration, People

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.8, BookBaby

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• You change the most permanent-seeming conditions of your life constantly through the varying attitudes you have toward them.

  Jane Roberts

  Change, Attitude, Permanent

  Jane Roberts (2011). “The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know”, p.35, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Emotional, Feelings

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 1, l. 122

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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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• The home videos aren't as good, but they are seeming to get better.

  Bob Hope

  Home, Get Better, Video

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