Top 1200 Things Are Not What They Seem Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.

Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.

I'm interested in the things that might seem slight or amusing but which I feel have a kind of profundity.

It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality.

I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.

I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.

My style is to be collaborative, progressive, to look at things that seem a little bit impossible.

I can empathise with different cultural expressions and am open to things that seem strange at first sight.

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

When people realize they're being heard, and have a seat at the table, things seem to work out.

Things that seem incredibly different can really be manifestations of the same underlying phenomena.

Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like.

As time goes by, you seem to weed out the things that were making your life hard.

There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.

Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.

You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion.

I realize that books are not the entire world, even if they sometimes seem to contain it. But I need the stupid things.

Olympics is a place where you can be easily distracted to a lot of things and it will seem like a magic world.

You can't share things about India with Americans, as they don't seem interested. Their culture is different.

Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places.

we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.

We're looking for people who are working on things that seem out of reach, uncomfortably difficult.

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to.

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

You probably can't imagine there being a glory in your life, let alone one that the Enemy fears. But remember - things are not what they seem. We are not what we seem. You probably believed that your heart was bad too. I pray that fog of poison gas from the pit of hell is fading away in the wind of God's truth. And there is more. Not only does Christ say to you that your heart is good, he invites you now out of the shadows to unveil your glory. You have a role you never dreamed of having.

The way I write is, I listen to things in my head, and then I copy them down. I memorize conversations and things like that; I seem to be able to do that pretty well. I suppose in that respect there's some improvisation, although I work over the stuff after I've got it down on paper.

Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

I seem to be very busy, and I seem always to be working.

in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.

Analogy and allegory always seem to be a much more expressive way of reflecting reality. I think Star Trek team have this ability to represent through analogy and extending things to the scientific extreme. They comment on things that are very present in a really powerful way.

Nothing in the world is difficult, it is only our own thoughts that make things seem so.

Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is an integration of an inner-value with things in the world around you.

I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they're alone.

I don't want to be in the newspapers or to feel like I have to manipulate things to make my life seem a way it's not.

It doesn't matter what you do, if you love what you do, then you don't sweat the little things. You just don't pay attention to them. Then when the big things come along, they're never as big as what they seem to somebody who doesn't have a passion for it and doesn't really love it.

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights. It is when things go wrong, when good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present. We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly. We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Of course I've done stupid things in my career, and I do always seem to be in the paper, but I hate seeing myself.

Things always seem to glide away. They come to you, stay a moment, then leave again.

If I seem to be reckless with myself,It's the fault of no one.All things have a placeUnder the moon as well as the sun.

It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.

It's a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.

All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.

All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Things just seem easier when you build up a bit of a points gap.

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

You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you seem to know the future in them. Well, this is because these other worlds where two things can happen spread out from our world like rainbows, and sort of flow into one another-

I have very strict rules in my head that seem to me to be the way things should sound.

When you really consider the everyday things around you, they start to seem like tiny miracles.

Are you willing to stay right where you are and let the Lord do great things through you, though no one may seem to notice at all?

Many of the things that seem impossible now will become realities tomorrow.

One of the things that I've noticed over the years is that I seem to be fascinated as a writer with the notion that we already have all that we need.

I can’t describe reality; at the most, I can try to capture things that seem to be valid, the way I see them.

Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.

Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, though I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.