Seems Quotes - Page 16

• Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a wonderful kind of play!

  Constance Reid

  Education, Math, Men

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• Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Gay, Bird, Grew

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.327

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• Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Musical, Deceit

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• Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.

  Cecil Day-Lewis

  Summer, Lying, Past

  Cecil Day Lewis (1992). “The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis”, p.346, Stanford University Press

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• It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Past, New Day

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.122, Penguin

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• What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Anger, Laughing

  Gustave Flaubert (1953). “Selected letters”

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• I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it seems to me, is to wake up every morning and figure out how to cause as much trouble for the fossil fuel industry as I can.

  Bill McKibben

  Morning, Jobs, Optimistic

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Break Up, Order, Connections

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• I had a dual goal in my running that was to win and to achieve excellence, so I was never happy with a slow tactical time. If the race were slow I would get in front and pull it up again. I couldn't stand a slow race. A lot of people seem to get screwed up on tactics. There is only one tactic in a race and that is to always be in a position where you can win it.

  Herb Elliott

  Motivational, Running, Winning

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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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• The light of the Way seems dim.

  Laozi

  Light, Taoism, Way

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• The progress of the Way seems retreating.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Progress, Way

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• The purest white seems stained.

  Laozi

  White, Taoism

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• The grandest virtue seems deficient.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Virtue

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• The most fundamental seems fickle.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Fickle, Fundamentals

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

  Laozi

  Taoism, Use, Exhausted

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• Other people have more than they need, I alone seem wanting.

  Laozi

  Compassion, People, Taoism

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• The highest virtue seems as low as a valley.

  Laozi

  Compassion, Taoism, Valleys

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• The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Forever, Lasts

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• There never seems to be enough hours in the day. At the moment I have no time to make new music because I've been doing so much promotion for this new single.

  Jamelia

  Hours In The Day, New Day, Moments

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• For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Grief, Taken, Moon

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.82, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Grief, Suffering, Sorrow

  Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.

  Brigid Brophy

  Equality, Animal, Should Have

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• I think I'm just more adaptable now, so danger, overall, seems less dangerous to me.

  Heather Donahue

  Thinking, Danger, Adaptable

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• There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems quite accurate. There is no English equivalent for the term, just as there is no Anglo-Saxon counterpart of that essentially Gallic individual, the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency, who, being French and therefore frugal, wastes nothing, including his time which he spends with the leisurely discrimination of a gourmet, savoring the multiple flavors of his city.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Cities, Gourmet, Flavor

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