Seeming Quotes

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.

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

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

Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful; Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious To have mistrusted her.

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.

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.

...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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

True worth is in being, not seeming

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.

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

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

Seeming and being are not one and the same.

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

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

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

Seeming's enough for slaves of space and time - ours is the now and here of freedom. Come.

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

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

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

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

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!

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.