Mabel Seeley famous quotes

Imagination is so much harder to face than reality.
-- Mabel Seeley

#Reality #Imagination #Faces

figures are clear and open, they hold nothing hidden, no secret they will not tell.
-- Mabel Seeley

#Data #Secret #Figures

Pity is something only weakness wants.
-- Mabel Seeley

#Weakness #Want #Pity

People who know their worth can live austerely; it's the people nagged by the gnawing knowledge of their own cheapness who have that eternal necessity for submerging themselves in what they feel is superlative in material things, as if fine possessions could make them fine.
-- Mabel Seeley

#People #Fine #Possession

The only time I'm pleased with myself is when I'm exhausted and shaking from having written too much.
-- Mabel Seeley

#Too Much #Exhausted #Shaking

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.
-- Mabel Seeley

#Hard Work #Writing #Thinking

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.

Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.

At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface." "Crash." "Quite slowly." Face & Luke

Let's face it, space is a risky business. I always considered every launch a barely controlled explosion.

Then the fear all humans felt when met with Death’s gaze came over his face. That’s right buddy, I’m Death, now move away from my girl.

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

If I were you I would face my clothes, to make sure that no one runs off with them!