#seemed

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Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.


Benjamin Disraeli


#destined #failure #many #out #people

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.


Lionel Blue


#deserted #favour #god #goodness #i

I said to Scott that the ascent seemed to be going slowly and that I was concerned descending climbers could possibly run out of oxygen before their return to camp IV.


Anatoli Boukreev


#before #camp #climbers #concerned #could

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.


Frances Farmer


#became #god #him #i #less

I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!


Frances Farmer


#any #died #god #i #i think

When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world.


James Buchan


#come #commissioned #conqueror #dispassionate #english

Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.


Eliza Farnham


#body #church #credited #drag #know

There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter!


George Washington Cable


#craft #cross #curious #daughter #herself

I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there.


Michael Chabon


#came #childhood #comics #contained #found

The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings.


Jung Chang


#chinese #confused #degree #fashion #feelings