Seems Quotes · Page 187

Well, there doesn't seem anything else for an ex-President to do but to go into the country and raise big pumpkins.

— Chester A. Arthur

Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.

— Paul Ricoeur

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more…

— Anthony Kiedis

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Achievers can almost literally taste success because they imagine their goals in such vivid detail. Setbacks only seem to add spice and…

— Denis Waitley

It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply.

— Vivian Gornick

If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.

— Jack Johnson

Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true. Everything that is not puts us in a rage.

— Andre Maurois

I love bossy women. Some people hate the word, and I understand how "bossy" can seem like a shitty way to describe…

— Amy Poehler

Being unique seems more desirable than ever. People are exhausted by clichés, by platitudes, by mass-produced realities, by what's been done and…

— Porochista Khakpour

I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers…

— Lara St. John

We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing…

— Mark Twain

What seems to sell books is good word-of-mouth, not promotion tours. I'm too old to believe that media promotion of a book…

— John Updike

The Christian take on Hellfire seems less dramatic than the Muslim vision, which I grew up with, but Christian magical thinking appeals…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products…

— Anita Roddick

We are born into a vast room whose walls consist of a thousand doors of possibility. Each door is flung open to…

— Terry Teachout

Praise, help, or even a look, may be enough to interrupt him, or destroy the activity. It seems a strange thing to…

— Maria Montessori

There is the devil at the door. I'm nearly going under, can't help but wonder who am I working for? No one's…

— Tinashe

Western progress (from one damned thing to another) seems to be essentially the MO of nowhere fast. But, on the other hand,…

— Quentin S. Crisp

Even though the play [ The Best Man] was written a long time ago, the characters seem modern and their struggles to…

— Chris Hart

I realize that in everything I was saying, that underneath my words was essentially, "why can't we be less judgemental and more…

— Simon Amstell

There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability…

— Margaret Atwood

I believe a man is born first unto himself - for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery,…

— D. H. Lawrence

It is amazing how little effort most people make to improve control of their attention. If reading a book seems too difficult,…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.

— William James

People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.

— Max Beerbohm

Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible.

— Nick Flynn

What to us may seem like a tragedy when it happens eventually can form itself into a gift.

— Suzanne Giesemann

I get very sad when I think about Vietnam where there seems to be no choice but violence. This violence goes on…

— Yoko Ono

It is a device of mine never to grudge trouble in the pursuit of what seems to me really good and never…

— Georgiana Burne-Jones

Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some…

— Clarence Day

Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's…

— Frances Parkinson Keyes

It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.

— Sybille Bedford

With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of…

— Washington Irving

There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I'm surprised aren't being used on MTV.

— David Bowie

Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone.

— Susan Mitchell

It seems so antithetical to the teachings of Christ to proclaim your faith in public. I mean, of course you're not supposed…

— Moby

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

— Lois Lowry

Well, the title "An Inconvenient Truth" is a way of highlighting the reasons why some people, including the president, don't seem to…

— Al Gore

I'm trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, 'cause that's my go-to, it seems.

— Shia LaBeouf