Semblance Quotes

Semblance Quote of the day

What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.

Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.

We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered in order to be recognized at all.

At the heart of all that civilization has meant and developed is 'community' - the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man to assume a semblance of responsibility for his brother.

Soon or late, every dog's master's memory becomes a graveyard; peopled by wistful little furry ghosts that creep back unbidden, at times, to a semblance of their olden lives.

What is this love that endures decades, passes on sleep, and resists death to give one kiss? Call it agape love, a love that bears a semblance of God's.

A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.

In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

If thou art wise, incline to truth; for truth, not the semblance, remains in its place.

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story

Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.

I need a semblance of routine so little things, like having my morning cup of English breakfast tea and going to Pilates early before the world gets hectic, keeps me calm.

These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.

Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism.

Misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case.

Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.

Progress is always the product of fresh thinking, and much of it thinking which to practical men bears the semblance of dreaming.

I think one of the best things you can do is write really sad songs that touch some semblance of... I guess 'hope' is the right word?

What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order.

Please, by all the blessed saints and their bladders, tell me you two didn’t…Have you lost all semblance of intelligence? (Syn)

Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build in tempo or content toward climaxes.

If [YouTube] were to switch to Theora and maintain even a semblance of the current YouTube quality it would take up most available bandwidth across the internet.

I need the concept of mercy for me to have some semblance of self-admiration. So in real life, I'm probably somebody who is more devout.

If I could get any semblance of - it's not really anonymity, but a little bit more - control over my public image, I guess that would be nice.

The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.

My pride and identity is wrapped up in my big trips. But I can't always be on one - I need to plan them and fund them, and I want some semblance of a normal life too.

VERISIMILITUDE (the appearance or semblance of truth)

True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.

Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.

We may be unable to maintain even a semblance of order in our urban schools, which increasingly resemble happy hour in Beirut. But, hallelujah, we sure know how to protect kids from God.

No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.

For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.

You don't look so hot, Adrien." "Yeah, well I'm having a bad heart day." His upper lip curled in a semblance of a smile. "Tell me about it.

Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.

When you do stand-up, you're just concerned with trying to leave with some semblance of human dignity at the end of your performance.