Seems Quotes - Page 11

• My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.

  Pierre Loti

  Emotion, Force, Endeavor

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• All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.

  Sun Ra

  Play, Appreciate, Want

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• I think Taj and Nina were better friends, because they get along, they have a lot of fun and they laugh. But it seems that Nina and Jack really hit it off. Nina really fell in love with Jack. there's a lot of chemistry between them!

  Delta Goodrem

  Love, Fun, Thinking

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• It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Self, People, Things Change

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• The progress of the Way seems retreating.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Progress, Way

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• Heaven's Way does not contend, yet it certainly triumphs. It does not speak, yet it certainly answers. It does not summon, yet things come by themselves. It seems to be at rest, yet it certainly has a plan.

  Laozi

  Heaven, Taoism, Triumph

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• The grandest virtue seems deficient.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Virtue

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• The sturdiest virtue seems fragile.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Virtue, Fragile

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• The most complete seems lacking. Yet in use it is not exhausted.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Use, Exhausted

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• Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Law, Effort, Letters

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The best thing I ever learned in life was that things have to be worked for. A lot of people seem to think there is some sort of magic in making a winning football team. There isn't, but there's plenty of work.

  Knute Rockne

  Football, Team, Winning

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• We must limit to a reasonable amount the Jewish influence...Whenever the Jewish percentage of total population becomes too high, a reaction seems to invariably occur. It is too bad because a few Jews of the right type are, I believe, an asset to any country.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Country, Believe, Population

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• I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

  Madeleine Albright

  Men, Rooms, World

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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• With stillness comes the benediction of peace”.
  “Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence.  Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented.  This fragmentation is an illusion, but seems very real while you are trapped in it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Real, Thinking, Events

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• To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve greatly.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Grace, Gone

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.188, New World Library

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• The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

  Nick Cave

  Artistic, Process, Labor

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• In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away.

  Primo Levi

  Taken, Law, Glimpse

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb, it flies. Each step carries its shopper aloft, as though afraid he might change his mind. It takes us up to merchandise we might not have bothered to climb an ordinary flight of steps for.

  Joseph Roth

  Climbing, Mind, Might

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• Although the noise of the chattering clientele is much more significant than the topics of their chatter, it does finally constitute that type of social and indistinct expression that we refer to as rhubarb. The very particular volume in which people tell each other their news seems to generate all by itself that acoustic chiaroscuro, a sounding murk, in which every communication seems to lose its edges, truth projects the shadow of a lie, and a statement seems to resemble its opposite.

  Joseph Roth

  Lying, Communication, Expression

  Joseph Roth (2002). “What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Child of woe is wane and delicate... sensitive and on the quiet side, she loves the picnics and outings to the underground caverns... a solemn child, prim in dress and, on the whole, pretty lost... secretive and imaginative, poetic, seems underprivileged and given to occasional tantrums... has six toes on one foot.

  Charles Addams

  Children, Feet, Dresses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The principle factor in my success has been an absolute desire to draw constantly. I never decided to be an artist. Simply, I couldn't stop myself from drawing. I drew for my own pleasure. I never wanted to know whether or not someone liked my drawings. I have never kept one of my drawings. I drew on walls, the school blackboard, odd bits of paper, the walls of barns. Today I'm still as fond of drawings as when I was a kid - and that was a long time ago - but, surprising as it may seem, I never thought about the money I would receive for my drawings. I simply drew them.

  Winsor McCay

  Wall, School, Kids

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• It's the ordinary things that seem important to me.

  Alex Colville

  Important, Ordinary, Ordinary Things

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• We often move away from pain, which is helpful only before being hurt. Once in pain, it seems the only way out is through. Like someone falling off a boat, struggling to stay above the water only makes things worse. We must accept we are there and settle enough so we can be carried by the deep. The willingness to do this is the genesis of faith, the giving over to currents larger than us. Even fallen leaves float in lakes, demonstrating how surrender can hold us up.

  Mark Nepo

  Hurt, Pain, Struggle

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.87, Conari Press

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• It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Morning, Men, Squad

  Frederick Forsyth (1995). “The day of the jackal ; The dogs of war”

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• The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem even by accident (though there is a great deal of it) to have contributed anything of permanent value to the storehouse of human thought.

  Peter Medawar

  Philosophical, Men, Squares

  "Review of Teilhard de Chardin's 'The Phenomenon of Man'". "Mind", Vol 70, pp. 99-105, 1961.

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