What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns
to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck
Hunger makes a thief of any man.
- Pearl S. Buck
When men destroy their old gods,
they will find new ones to take their place.
- Pearl S. Buck
I feel no need for any other faith
than my faith in the kindness of human beings.
I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it
that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
- Pearl S. Buck
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery
of the relationship between men and women.
- Pearl S. Buck
When you are courting a nice girl
an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder
a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
If everything seems to be going well,
you have obviously overlooked something.
- Anonymous
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it
seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour
and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
Random chance seems to have operated in our favor ...
there was no deity involved.
- Spock character in the Star Trek television series
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems,
in my opinion, to characterize our age.
- Albert Einstein
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness;
however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation
for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You CAN do what you are committed to do -
regardless of how difficult it seems.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
It seems that we have it backward in our society.
We tend to look up to people
who are under a great deal of stress,
who can handle loads of stress,
and those who are under a great deal of pressure.
- Richard Carlson
Success seems to be largely a matter
of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather
A perfection of means,
and confusion of aims,
seems to be our main problem.
- Albert Einstein
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
The obscure we see eventually.
The completely obvious,
it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon.
We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela
If someone irritates you, it is only
your own response that is irritating you.
Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you,
remember that it is only your judgment
of the incident that provokes you. -
- Epictetus
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Loneliness is not what it seems.
One does not feel lonely because one is alone,
but because of a feeling of lack -
a feeling that something is missing.
Loneliness is essentially independent
of how many other humans are around.
It has much more to do with one's self-esteem -
one's sense of inherent worth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Ah, not everything is as seems...
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves
come when life seems most challenging.
- Joseph Campbell
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
When you get into a tight place
and everything goes against you,
till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer,
never give up then, for that is just
the place and time the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
When life seems overwhelming, just step back for a day.
Consider what is most important.
Focus on the crucial issues in your life.
Just let the rest of your upsets go.
You can't fix the whole world, but you can still make a difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships -
the ones that last -
are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.
You know, one day you look at the person
and you see something more than you did the night before.
Like a switch has been flicked somewhere.
And the person who was just a friend is...
suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.
- Dana Scully
See beauty in those unexpected places.
(she asked herself how people could let Bach be background noise.)
See the opportunity in what looks like inconvenience.
(she steered clear of the traffic jam
and went to the bakery she's been meaning to stop at.)
She embraces the undeclared possibility
in what seems like just another ordinary day.
(her friend is scheduled for cancer surgery
and suddenly everything around her seems so very precious.)
- Mary Anne Radmacher
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for
grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
- Charles Darwin
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous
New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there.
Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
- Jimmy Carter
A New Year's resolution is something that
goes in one Year and out the other.
- Anonymous
A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot
New York City is a great monument
to the power of money and greed...
a race for rent.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
I've developed a new philosophy...
I only dread one day at a time.
- the character Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic
Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Society is always taken by surprise
at any new example of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
I'm going to go in the bathroom and scream.
I'll be out in a minute.
- the Woody Allen movie What's New Pussycat
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I was so jazzed about sobering up
and starting a new life;
I had to stop at a bar
to get a drink just to calm down.
- the television series Glee
I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot.
Some days I get more out of the New York Times.
- John F. Kennedy
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy
Celebrate endings - for they precede new beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
I make it a policy to try never to
make a complete idiot of myself twice in the same way.
After all, there's always all kinds of new ways
to make a complete idiot of myself.
Why repeat the old ones?
- Margot Dalton
Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Incite a riot of new ideas.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing opinions,
slowly eroding old barriers,
quietly building new structures.
- John F. Kennedy
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every generation laughs at the old fashions,
but follows religiously the new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Falling out of love is very enlightening.
For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
- Iris Murdoch
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,
letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer
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