Quotes About Seemingly

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.

The nerve of these folk! Because I am not at my place of business, but rather seemingly at leisure, they treat me as though I am some kind of public pump from which they can draw advice, like water, at will.

The 'Star Wars' saga is about a series of seemingly chance encounters. They impact the destiny of everyone involved.

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

Often, the most extraordinary opportunities are hidden among the seemingly insignificant events of life. If we do not pay attention to these events, we can easily miss the opportunities.

When we recognize that the seemingly object nature of reality is nothing different than the subject nature of mind, which is rigpa, it is called enlightenment.

Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.

He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.

there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.

If I am successful in my chosen calling in life, I am thriving. But that's not entirely true. There are many seemingly successful people in and out of ministry who are nevertheless miserable.

There is not much of a bureaucratic leap, if history is any guide, between a seemingly benign call for 'continuous situational awareness' and the onset of a covert and illegal campaign of domestic surveillance.

I'm pretty sure it's a simple matter of climbing over that seemingly high (but actually rather unimpressive) obstacle.

What if you could somehow create an expansive enough life that you could synchronize seemingly incongruous opposites into a worldview that excludes nothing?

We readily think of stressors as consisting of various unpleasant things that can be done to an organism. Sometimes a stressor can be the failure to provide something essential, and the absence of touch is seemingly one of the most marked developmental stressors that we can suffer.

Purity, especially bodily purity, is the seemingly innocent concept behind a number of the most sinister social actions of the past century.

the mind always has logic; it might not be obvious logic, but the mind has its reasons for connecting two seemingly unlike notions. -Carol Muske, Translations: Idea to Image

Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying.

The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life.

It is human nature that when you see something work well, you do more of it. If, in its ceaseless quest for revenue, government sees a seemingly harmless method of raising funds without causing much inflation, it will grab on to it.

Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.

Even the Vatican, probably the second most active center of cryptanalysis, would send Soro seemingly impenetrable messages that had fallen into its hands. In 1526, Pope Clement VII sent him two encrypted messages, and both were returned having been successfully cryptanalyzed.

History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?

There are Chestertonian aphorisms too: "Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.