Quotes about Seeming

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. Votes: 4

Seeming to do is not doing. Votes: 3

Seeming and being are not one and the same. Votes: 3

He did seem like a nice boy. Seeming and being are two different things. Votes: 3

Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced. Votes: 3

There's rosemary and rue. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Grace and remembrance be to you. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

'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? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Seeming devotion does but gild a knave, That's neither faithful, honest, just, nor brave; But where religion does with virtue join, It makes a hero like an angel shine. Votes: 3

The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance. Votes: 2

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. Votes: 2

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. Votes: 2

I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical. Votes: 2

Mozart's seeming frothiness is just a light touch with very profound material. That's what I've found working on 'The Magic Flute.' Votes: 2

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness. Votes: 2

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order. Votes: 2

I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The trick, when you're flirting, is figuring how to keep a balance between being engaging enough to retain someone's attention and not seeming overly available. So you tease a person a little. Votes: 2

There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents. Votes: 2

I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort of jealousy, and I decided to go to medical school after all. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that. Votes: 2

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done. Votes: 2

When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers. Votes: 2

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. Votes: 2

Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets. Votes: 2

The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I did not have a mobile phone in 1993. No one did, except the occasional banker or Hollywood star seeming smart, or the main character in 'American Psycho.' In 1993, every day was 'let's get lost.' I could walk Greenwich Village for hours and not be found. Votes: 2

Geopolitical drama lessened but did not die after the Cold War; in 2008, the specter of thousands of seeming automatons banging drums at the opening of the Beijing Games frightened and enthralled the world, reminding us that China was a nation on the rise, a competitor for global dominance. Votes: 2

The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check. Votes: 2

I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict, the personalities, the violence, the distrust, and the seeming lack of viable solutions made meaningful involvement feel impossible. What changed that, for me, was changing the vantage point. Votes: 2

Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy. Votes: 0

True worth is being not seeming Votes: 0

True worth is in being, not seeming Votes: 0

I need the protection of seeming weak. Votes: 0

The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist. Votes: 0

Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you're sane. Votes: 0

Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth. Votes: 0

A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming discord. Votes: 0

Nature is full for us of seeming inconsistencies and glad surprises. Votes: 0

Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency. Votes: 0

He had a happy canine way of seeking approval without seeming insecure. Votes: 0

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times. Votes: 0

Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth. Votes: 0

The home videos aren't as good, but they are seeming to get better. Votes: 0

I thought you'd like it," he said, seeming hurt. "You look very pretty. Votes: 0

It's really hard to even talk about the internet without seeming instantly corny. Votes: 0

Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write. Votes: 0

A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells. Votes: 0

Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. Votes: 0

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort. Votes: 0

The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things. Votes: 0

There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first. Votes: 0

When you most succeed, you do so by seeming not to act at all. Votes: 0

The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following. Votes: 0

A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. Votes: 0

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise. Votes: 0

We all have that possibility, that potential and that promise of seeing beyond the seeming. Votes: 0

Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice. Votes: 0

Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place. Votes: 0

It's terrible feeling like an eligible bachelor but no women seeming to agree with you. Votes: 0

Marvel movies, are seeming slightly less exciting now that Star Wars has appeared and everything. Votes: 0

One who can see without seeming to see-- That's an observer as good as three. Votes: 0

When you love what you do, it stops seeming like work and instead becomes necessity. Votes: 0

A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. Votes: 0

The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to. Votes: 0

I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise. Votes: 0

Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights. Votes: 0

The joy of God is so exquisite that any sacrifice is worth the effort and seeming pain. Votes: 0

When better cherries are not to be had, We needs must take the seeming best of bad. Votes: 0

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way. Votes: 0

Being is unrecognizable unless it manages to seem, and seeming is feeble unless it manages to be. Votes: 0

My deep sense of alarm has to do with Donald Trump's seeming lack of fealty to constitutionalism. Votes: 0

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art. Votes: 0

Investors can see that Facebook is feeling old and tired and isn't seeming to be that innovative. Votes: 0

seeming's enough for slaves of space and time ours is the now and here of freedom . Come Votes: 0

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming. Votes: 0

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all. Votes: 0

The decision to overlook the seeming inequities of life instead of reacting to them is a choice. Votes: 0

I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me Votes: 0

The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are. Votes: 0

They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem. Votes: 0

Nothing before, nothing behind; The steps of faith Fall on the seeming void, and find The Rock beneath. Votes: 0

You change the most permanent-seeming conditions of your life constantly through the varying attitudes you have toward them. Votes: 0

We make trifles of terrors, Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear. Votes: 0

It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective. Votes: 0

He...preferred always the more to the less remote, what, seeming exceptional, was an instance of law more refined... Votes: 0

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing- Votes: 0

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises. Votes: 0

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family. Votes: 0

A blouse that hits at the hips or above will keep you from seeming shapeless in a flowy skirt. Votes: 0

Amid the turmoil and tumult of battle, there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all. Votes: 0

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules? Votes: 0

Is the brain, which is notably double in structure, a double organ, 'seeming parted, but yet a union in partition'? Votes: 0

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other. Votes: 0

...the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her. Votes: 0

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. Votes: 0

Failure is nothing but success trying to be born in a bigger way. Most seeming failures are just installments toward victory! Votes: 0

A smile appears on the faces of most archaic figures, a happiness of expression seeming to transcend that of human beings. Votes: 0

There is no death of anyone, save in appearance, just as there is no birth of any, save only in seeming. Votes: 0

On Lee as commander: "He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to court their favor. Votes: 0

Patience is, in and of itself, a great challenge and it often holds the key to breaking through a seeming impasse. Votes: 0

We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed. Votes: 0

Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress. Votes: 0

Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way to merit that would otherwise be discouraged by difficulties. Votes: 0

People moving in Heaven move with grace and beauty and slowly glide along with their feet hardly seeming to touch the ground! Votes: 0

Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die Votes: 0

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing. Votes: 0

Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home. Votes: 0

In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned. Votes: 0

I think 'Bridesmaids' has changed things socially and culturally. Before, it was really difficult for women to do scatological humour without seeming gross. Votes: 0

Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work. Votes: 0

So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error. Votes: 0

I have a skeptical and cranky side, and I'm forever puzzled why people believe the, seeming to me, dumb things that they choose to believe. Votes: 0

But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple. Votes: 0

If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency. Votes: 0

We simply cannot afford to allow our government to go unscrutinised, most of all in amid the bleak seeming imperatives of the 'war on terror'. Votes: 0

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm. Votes: 0

How happy they are, in all seeming, How gay, or how smilingly proud, How brightly their faces are beaming, These people who make up the crowd! Votes: 0

Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say. Votes: 0

The weather was clear and still, and the countless stars opened above them, seeming like brilliant cold fruits that Maerad could simply pick out of the sky. Votes: 0

By the delusions of seeming good the people are often misled to desire their own ruin; and they are frequently influenced by great hopes and brave promises. Votes: 0

History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form. Votes: 0

O Day after day we can't help growing older. Year after year spring can't help seeming younger. Come let's enjoy our winecup today, Nor pity the flowers fallen. Votes: 0

Don't be afraid to make corrections," Picchu said. "Don't be afraid to lend a hand." She fell silent, seeming to think for a moment. "And don't look down. Votes: 0

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I suppose one has to remember that 'life' is important too, though it's something I forget in some moods, everything except work seeming like an interruption or really non-life. Votes: 0

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all. Votes: 0

Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming contradictions, redaction and myths passed off as verifiable history. Votes: 0

Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping. Votes: 0

The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to. Votes: 0

O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies. Votes: 0

Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal. Votes: 0

We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I love Toronto's long autumns, warm with windy swirls of golden spores, redolent with giant, sun-roasted leaves flapping up and down the streets, and horrible winter always seeming far, far off! Votes: 0

...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away the name Punishment made the thing infinite. Votes: 0

The most impersonal seeming audiences eventually just say such intimate, smart, wise, amazing, totally surprising, funny things. It's empowering, in the sense of feeling like you're a part of something really important. Votes: 0

That little word 'we' I mistrust and here's why: No man of another can say, 'He is I.' Behind all agreement lies something amiss All seeming accord cloaks a lurking abyss. Votes: 0

Ah, were she pitiful as she is fair,Or but as mild as she is seeming so,Then were my hopes greater than my despair,Then all the world were heaven, nothing woe. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

So what you're saying is, I'm your brand of heroin?" I teased, trying to lighten the mood. He smiled swiftly, seeming to appreciate my effort. "Yes, you are exactly my brand of heroin. Votes: 0

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It was loud in spots and less loud in other spots, and it had that quality which I have noticed in all violin solos of seeming to last much longer than it actually did. Votes: 0

Go on in the certain way, and if you do not receive that thing, you will receive something so much better that you will see that the seeming failure was really a great success. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

On a series of apparently tiresome, flat sittings seeming to lead nowhere - one day something happens, the touches seem to 'take', the deaf canvas listens, your words flow and you have done something. Votes: 0

I had a terrible fear of not being normal - of not seeming normal. So I went to the library and read every psychology book I could find. Anything about how normal people behave. Votes: 0

With a historical setting, I worry about accuracy at every turn... With a created world, I have to worry about all of it holding together and seeming coherent... Each presents unique challenges and opportunities. Votes: 0

Was he a pleasant man hiding behind a mask of seeming carelessness or an unpleasant man hiding behind a mask of charm & smiles? Or like most humans, was he a dizzying mix of contradictory charactersticks? Votes: 0

When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker grow merry over him when they meet his work by chance. Votes: 0

The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves. Votes: 0