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I'm not unmindful of a man's seeming need for faith; I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniel's. But to me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle.
frank sinatra— Also quoted in Frank Sinatra, My Father (1986) by Nancy Sinatra, p. 201
Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.
john webster— Act V, scene vi.
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It 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.
christopher fry— Time, New York, April 3, 1950
Of seeming arms to make a short essay, Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day.
john dryden— 1700 Cymon and Iphigenia, l.407-8.
Roughly speaking it was the sensation of being at the centre of an explosion? I fancy you would feel much the same if you were struck by lightning. I knew immediately that I was hit, but because of that seeming bang and flash, I thought it was a rifle nearby that had gone off accidentallyand shot me.
— 1938 Of his wounding during the Spanish Civil War. Homage to Catalonia, ch.12.
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.
john kenneth galbraith— Chapter 12, p. 328
They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem,Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
Oliver Goldsmith— Line 265.
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.
Robert Greene— Pandosto (1588); Dyce p. 294.
Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.
Nathaniel Hawthorne— "Wakefield" (1835) from Twice Told Tales (1837, 1851)
In the study of such events we do well to remember that the hand once nailed to the tree holds the chain that binds the past, the present, and the future. His way is in the sea, His path is in the great waters, and His footsteps are not known. But wisdom marks His plans; truth and justice attend their development, and out of seeming evil He brings triumphant good.
john lanahan— P. 425. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. While such an economy may produce a sense of seeming prosperity for the moment, it rests on an illusionary foundation of complete unreliability and renders among our political leaders almost a greater fear of peace than is their fear of war.
Douglas MacArthur— Speech to the Michigan legislature, in Lansing, Michigan (15 May 1952), published in General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964 (2000) by Edward T. Imparato, p. 206, much of this was used in speeches of 1951, as quoted in The Twenty-year Revolution from Roosevelt to Eisenhower (1954) by Chesly Manly, p. 3, and Total Insecurity : The Myth Of American Omnipotence (2004) by Carol Brightman, p. 182
Dr. Peter effectively destroys examples of seeming exceptions and is rather convincing that his principle is ubiquitous.
— Lawrence Lipsitz, Editor (1973) The Process of Innovation in Education. p. 26
They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem,Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
Oliver Goldsmith— Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller (1764), Line 265.
The Infinite alone exists and is Real; the finite is passing and false. The Original Whim in the Beyond caused the apparent descent of the Infinite into the realm of the seeming finite. This is the Divine Mystery and Divine Game in which Infinite Consciousness for ever plays on all levels of finite consciousness.
meher baba— 43 : Toys in the Divine Game, p. 70
Of seeming arms to make a short essay, Then hasten to be drunk the business of the day.
john dryden— Lines 407-408.
Evil grows and bears fruit, which is understandable, because it has logic and probability on its side and also, of course, strength. The resistance of tiny kernels of good, to which no one grants the power of causing far-reaching consequences, is entirely mysterious, however. Such seeming nothingness not only lasts but contains within itself enormous energy which is revealed gradually.
czesław miłosz— "If Only This Could Be Said" To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays by Czes?aw Mi?osz (2001) edited and translated by Bogdana Carpenter and Madeline G. Levine
We saw a raven very high above us. It called out, and the dome of the sky seemed to echo the sound. It called again and again as it flew onwards, and the mountains gave back the sound, seeming as if from their centre; a musical bell-like answering to the bird's hoarse voice.
dorothy wordsworth— July 27, 1800Cf. Wordsworth's The Excursion, Book 4, lines 1175-87.
Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, As You Like It (c.1599-1600), Act III, scene 2, line 372.
They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem, Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
Oliver Goldsmith— Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller (1764), Line 265.
The pretty Lark, climbing the Welkin cleer, Chaunts with a cheer, Heer peer I neer my Deer; Then stooping thence (seeming her fall to rew) Adieu (she saith) adieu, deer Deer, adieu.
guillaume de salluste du bartas— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Weekes and Workes, Fifth Day.
Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.
Wentworth Dillon— Wentworth Dillon, Essay on Translated Verse, line 216.
I am not merry; but I do beguile The thing I am by seeming otherwise.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act II, scene 1, line 123.
Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.
— Act V, scene vi.
Thus annihilation means, in the Buddhist philosophy , only a dispersion of matter , in whatever form or semblance of form it may be; for everything that bears a shape was created, and thus must sooner or later perish i.e. change that shape. Therefore, as something temporary, though seeming to be permanent , it is but an illusion, Maya; for eternity has neither beginning nor end, the more or less prolonged duration of some particular form passes, as it were, like an instantaneous flash of lighting.
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, in Isis Unveiled: Secrets of the Ancient Wisdom Tradition, Madame Blavatsky's ..., p.62
So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted; But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.
— Helena, scene ii
Even God's providence seeming estranged.
thomas hood— The Bridge of Sighs (1844).
Bid that welcome Which comes to punish us, and we punish it seeming to bear it lightly.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act IV, scene 14, line 136.
