#seemingly

Beautiful she is, sir! Lovely! Sometimes Luke a great tree in flower, sometimes like a white daffadowdilly, small and slender like. Hard as di'monds, soft as moonlight. Warm as sunlight, cold as frost in the stars. Proud and far-off as a snow-mountain, and as merry as any lass I ever saw with daisies in her hair in springtime. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#beauty

Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#decisions #life #losers #make #only

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#cannot #conceal #feeling #found #live

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. ↗

— Theodor Svedberg

#been #changes #conditions #formed #foundation

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life. ↗

— Ralph Ransom

#giant #giant step #gradually #insignificant #life

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

— William Plomer

#creative #creative man #function #man #perceive

When a business becomes successful seemingly overnight, no one knows about all the months and years you've invested, all the projects you've tried before that didn't work. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#becomes #before #business #invested #knows

I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have. ↗

— John Barton

#combining #dissimilar #drawing #i #ideas

We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#better #catastrophes #century #cnn #consequence

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep. ↗

— John Irving

#child #few #few things #real #real world