Seems Quotes · Page 140

Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need…

— Ernest Dimnet

Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That's not how I was brought up. I don't recognize the country I live in anymore.

— Jeff Daniels

Most people seem to assume that this dramatic surge in imprisonment was due to a corresponding surge in crime, particularly violent crime.

— Michelle Alexander

As things now stand, the office is a slightly meaner battleground than the home. Male bosses seem to dominate their women underlings…

— Wilfrid Sheed

I look upon those who would deny others the right to urge and argue their position, however irksome and pernicious they may…

— William Borah

Only strong natures can really be sweet ones; those that seem sweet are in general only weak, and may easily turn sour.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.

— Hedy Lamarr

What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be…

— Fred Alan Wolf

In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people,…

— Bjork

The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical [sic] science - that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought,…

— Alexandre Koyre

It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was. My…

— Charles M. Schulz

Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the…

— Thomas Troward

When dealing with Canadians, it is advantageous to seem to be negotiating from a position of weakness, for when faced with an…

— 1st Baron St Helens Alleyne FitzHerbert

The stillness of the early morning scene enables me to take in and enjoy many things which pass me by during the…

— Rosemary Verey

Iliad by Homer is one of the great stories in literature. And I thought its themes really resonated today, whether that was…

— Brad Pitt

While other rich people might be like, "Once I'm rich I'm going to go on a vacation to wherever," but instead they…

— Tao Lin

The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may…

— Elizabeth Aston

Sphere Music - Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain, and then settle to earth again like dust; such are Noise,…

— Henry David Thoreau

When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don't really understand the complexity of the problem. Then…

— Steve Jobs

Sometimes what holds you together and what tears you apart are the same things. My lungs are made of armor so that…

— Bill Watterson

The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of…

— Susan Hill

Well, I don't ever leave out details, in that I don't come up with information or description which I don't then use.…

— Kelly Link

I think Mitt Romney has demonstrated repeatedly he has a penchant for - for secrecy, doesn't seem to have any interest in…

— Mitt Romney

Fox News seems much more conservative than it is because no other television network over the past half-century has been anything but…

— David Limbaugh

I love Les Beaux Peeps. Everyone in that band works together really well. I used to go out to see bands a…

— Clea DuVall

And the visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.

— Herman Melville

You can't know how weird your own life is until you get some distance on it. Everything seems mundane or boring or…

— Kyle Minor

Grief can be a slow ache that never seems to stop rising, yet as we grieve, those we love mysteriously become more…

— Mark Nepo

It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.

— Henry James

Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.

— Philip Yancey

I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can?

— Rebecca West

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of…

— Katharine Whitehorn

I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault.

— Anonymous

Everyone seems to be searching and yearning for answers whatever they may be. And that ends up being some kind of spiritual…

— Sally Quinn

It's all the same, only the names will change, everyday it seems we're wasting away. Another place, where the faces are so…

— Jon Bon Jovi

I used to lay drunk in alleys and I probably will again.Bukowski, who is he? I read about Bukowski and it doesn't…

— Charles Bukowski

If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital,…

— David K. Shipler

Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.

— Richard Whately

All of us have the capacity to attract to ourselves what seems to be missing in our lives.

— Wayne Dyer

Sometimes the things that seem to be adversities turn out to be opportunities in disguise.

— W. Clement Stone