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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.
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.
Failure is nothing but success trying to be born in a bigger way. Most seeming failures are just installments toward victory!
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.
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'.
It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.
Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.
Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
You can be president of the United States and have the best, most bipartisan-seeming idea in the world. But if it doesn't have a constituency, you might as well be town clerk of Toad Suck, Arkansas.
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.
No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?
You change the most permanent-seeming conditions of your life constantly through the varying attitudes you have toward them.
I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me
...the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her.
Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.
I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise.
Music has always enhanced our experience of life on earth by seeming to give us access to something larger than ourselves - the strings of the universe.
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.
People moving in Heaven move with grace and beauty and slowly glide along with their feet hardly seeming to touch the ground!
The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.
I can understand pulling a book whose contents have been questioned - after all, false information has a way of sticking in your brain and seeming true when you go to retrieve it years later.
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.
People want to protect their way of life, and when they think it's in danger they start grasping for more extreme-seeming alternatives.
Russia and China, which have embraced autocratic capitalism, have attracted admirers and emulators by the seeming success of their strongman rule.
It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart.
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.
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.
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.
I think 'Bridesmaids' has changed things socially and culturally. Before, it was really difficult for women to do scatological humour without seeming gross.
In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.
One who can see without seeming to see-- That's an observer as good as three.
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.
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.
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.
We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.
There is no death of anyone, save in appearance, just as
there is no birth of any, save only in seeming.
Nothing before, nothing behind; The steps of faith Fall on the seeming void, and find The Rock beneath.
Is the brain, which is notably double in structure, a double organ, 'seeming parted, but yet a union in partition'?
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.
"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."
The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time they are wandering from what is said and desire to return to what they want to say.
Mozart's seeming frothiness is just a light touch with very profound material. That's what I've found working on 'The Magic Flute.'
Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way for merit, that would otherwise be discouraged by difficulties...
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.
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.
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.
It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.
So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.
My secret for feeding a bunch of guests without seeming stingy is pork tenderloin. It's an inexpensive cut that looks impressive and is full of flavor. Plus, guys love it.
Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.
Amid the turmoil and tumult of battle, there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all.
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.
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.
A smile appears on the faces of most archaic figures, a happiness of expression seeming to transcend that of human beings.
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?
My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.
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.
We make trifles of terrors,
Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge,
When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.