The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'. — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary. — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
The day seems long, but night is odious; no sleep, but dreams; no dreams but visions strange. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seems like most people are being pulled into a negative energy, but then you meet strong individuals or strong leaders… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
This is much more than your typical thriller. Tim Johnston has written a book that makes Gone Girl seem gimmicky . .… — Alan Cheuse Copy Share Image
I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
It would seem to me... an offense against nature, for us to come on the same scene endowed as we are with… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
When it comes to underwear, there's nothing worse than a visible panty line. Sometimes it seems like nobody knows that seamless underwear… — Brad Goreski Copy Share Image
Social and political issues in general seem to me fairly simple; the effort to obfuscate them in esoteric and generally vacuous theory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's a rare memoir that can tell a story that seems brand new, but Nina Here Nor There does it. This one-of-a-kind… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
There are fewer and fewer philosophies that everyone subscribes to. We don't seem to have as many beliefs in common as we… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't… — Barbara Mandrell Copy Share Image
I think people do look to writers to tell the truth in a way that nobody else quite will, not politicians or… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Certainly parents play a crucial role in the lives of individuals who are intellectually gifted or creatively talented. But this role is… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the… — Verlyn Klinkenborg Copy Share Image
I'm an optimist and my heroines seem to be that way, too. It's too much work to be cynical and distrusting. That… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
Despite the long-term reduction in familial roles and functions, we believe that parents are still the world's greatest experts about the needs… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too, because he… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
When quite young I can remember I had no thought or wish of surpassing others. I was rather taken with a liking… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
I had this idea when I was in the hospital, .. It seems like every year I always have different people come… — Andrew McMahon Copy Share Image
In the moments I get it right, every step I take seems to be matched by a universal mystery, which obligingly, incredibly,… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I do wear lipstick because when I suddenly get pale or green, it seems whole blood goes away. — Nastassja Kinski Copy Share Image
In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
All dogs seem to be great linguists, according to their owners. They always understand every word that's said to them. — Susan Ertz Copy Share Image
Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I think one of things is that all fantasy it seems to me works the way your brain basically works. This is… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
Nothing is so clear in history that is it happens for any one thing. It seems that a lot of things come… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme. — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
Some Buddhists, however, never seem to get past the void, and I suppose I view this as a kind of Buddhist 'Old… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Acting is a child's prerogative. Children are born to act. Usually, people grow up and out of it. Actors always seem to… — Joanne Woodward Copy Share Image
I still like to live in a whimsical world that seems more romantic and fantasy-related because real life seems so hard — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
