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The thing is to get the work done.
True worth is in being, not seeming
Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy.
When you most succeed, you do so by seeming not to act at all.
The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.
Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.
Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights.
One who can see without seeming to see-- That's an observer as good as three.
It's really hard to even talk about the internet without seeming instantly corny.
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
When better cherries are not to be had, We needs must take the seeming best of bad.
The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.
Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.
We all have that possibility, that potential and that promise of seeing beyond the seeming.
A blouse that hits at the hips or above will keep you from seeming shapeless in a flowy skirt.
Being is unrecognizable unless it manages to seem, and seeming is feeble unless it manages to be.
Investors can see that Facebook is feeling old and tired and isn't seeming to be that innovative.
There is no death of anyone, save in appearance, just as there is no birth of any, save only in seeming.
Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.
You change the most permanent-seeming conditions of your life constantly through the varying attitudes you have toward them.
It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.
Mozart's seeming frothiness is just a light touch with very profound material. That's what I've found working on 'The Magic Flute.'
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.
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'.
Russia and China, which have embraced autocratic capitalism, have attracted admirers and emulators by the seeming success of their strongman rule.
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.
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.
I think 'Bridesmaids' has changed things socially and culturally. Before, it was really difficult for women to do scatological humour without seeming gross.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.
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.
Our country has often stood like a solid rock in the face of common danger, and there is a deep underlying unity which runs like a golden thread through all our seeming diversity.
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.
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.
There is that idea of seeming crazy when you're seeing spirits or you're seeing dead people, you know what I mean? There's a certain sort of stigma, a sort of kookiness, when it comes to that.
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.
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.
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.
I think a bit of mystery is good, and I used to feel like an eccentric person pretending to be normal. But I am actually just a normal person seeming eccentric, by what I'm putting myself through.
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.
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.
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.
I usually dislike second books in series. The only second installment I ever loved was 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and I think that was wonderful because it evolved the characters while not seeming like a bridge.
The United States, under President Trump, is abdicating an important moral obligation to all democracies by seeming to shrug off the most egregious of human rights violations from both our allies and our enemies.