Seems Quotes · Page 181

Conor McGregor seems like a good athlete, he seems like a decent counter-puncher. But, he also seems like a scumbag.

— Dustin Poirier

The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where, as it…

— Richard Jefferies

I don't want to be at a point where I'm trying to steal the spotlight from the team or anyone else or…

— Tyler Beede

[Prozac] didn't seem to have any effect whatsoever on my melancholy, my dark vision, and everything else that I'd taken it for.

— Leonard Cohen

For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is…

— Robert Pinsky

I've accompanied several dying people on their travels, and the desert seems to be a favored destination. It is very hot and…

— Edmund White

The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable.

— James Surowiecki

There's a Cuban saying: Bicho malo nunca muere. Loose translation: The good die young but the wicked live forever. It seems to…

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

I'm going with the flow. I feel when the time is right to stop, it will be flashing in neon lights for…

— Lindsay Davenport

You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow,…

— T. E. Lawrence

There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be…

— Steven T. Katz

Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the…

— Christopher Alexander

NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is…

— Ambrose Bierce

I guess I've grown to admire Queen Elizabeth II more. I've always struggled with my feelings about the Royal Family. I am…

— Samuel Barnett

Populism has had as many incarnations as it has had provocations, but its constant ingredient has been resentment, and hence whininess. Populism…

— George Will

When the epistemologists' concept of consciousness first became popular, it seems to have been in part a transformed application of the Protestant…

— Gilbert Ryle

If you examine the history of any playwright of the past twenty - five or thirty years - I'm not talking about…

— Edward Albee

If one is the kind of creature I am and wants to do the kind of writing I want to do, an…

— May Sarton

I also believe - and hope - that politics and economics will cease to be as important in the future as they…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Our system freed the individual genius of man. Released him to fly as high & as far as his own talent &…

— Ronald Reagan

Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Elizabeth Aston

The relationship we have with God is not the same over a life; sometimes, as with human relationships, it goes through bad…

— Kevin Hart

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

The inflection point at which we have arrived is one in which we are increasingly seizing the keys to all creation, as…

— Joel Garreau

When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Someone always needs rescuing, yet there's only one person who ever seems to understand you. It's a lot like being Lassie.

— John F. Kennedy

I would like to do a part that would stretch me. In America it seems to me that you just take your…

— Courteney Cox

If I seem to be reckless with myself,It's the fault of no one.All things have a placeUnder the moon as well as…

— Elliott Smith

To know a little less and to understand a little more: that, it seems to me, is our greatest need.

— James Ramsey Ullman

I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.

— Chuck Palahniuk

The custom of my grandfather's day is still going strong in Latin America. American girls do not seem to understand it.

— Desi Arnaz

Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing…

— J. K. Rowling

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a…

— Thomas Carlyle

We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.

— K. D. Lang

When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.

— Garry Trudeau

For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

— Henry David Thoreau

As a lot of the venture capital world seems to be shifting away from consumer, we want to make sure that consumer…

— Dan Levitan

I don't think that politics are as complex as people like to make them seem or out to be.

— Lupe Fiasco