Seems Quotes · Page 190

If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.

— Boyd K. Packer

The magic of fiction seems to be the more specific you are, the more universal you end up becoming.

— Shyam Selvadurai

It seems that more people today have a greater desire to live long than they do to live well.

— Croft M. Pentz

It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem…

— William Hazlitt

Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

People seem to have an impressive capacity to change themselves if you believe in them, if you tell them they can and…

— William R. Miller

What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and…

— Steven Weber

Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea, no?

— Timothy Noah

But I cannot bring myself to believe that I was intended for a musician, because it seems so small a business in…

— Sidney Lanier

We must never forget that today's legendary achievements-awesome as they may seem-were yesterday's risky adventures. Courage is not the capacity never to…

— John Claypool

Long Island always seems to be the hardest place for some reason. There are always excuses. People will say, "Well, there's a…

— Jay Mohr

The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own… It would…

— James Gleick

I am concerned that many young people in the Hemisphere seem to envision the United States as a nation intoxicated by power,…

— Luis A. Ferre

Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would…

— Anonymous

People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant…

— Daniel Pipes

That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given…

— John Dewey

I do not know what the cat can have eaten. Usually I know exactly what the cat has eaten. Not only have…

— Roy Blount, Jr

President Obama's been reaching out to Iran, reaching out to Cuba, reaching out to Latin America. The only place he can't seem…

— Jay Leno

Should you encounter the enemy, he will be defeated! No quarter will be given! Prisoners will not be taken! Whoever falls into…

— Wilhelm II

No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It's the vision you…

— James C. Collins

I got tired of doing battle with people thinking I was a little weird because I wasn't in a band making happy,…

— Elliott Smith

People are important too, however, and what a terrible impact a total ban on hunting would have on the rural economy, which…

— Ann Winterton

I've never been to the Oscars, but if I was ever invited to the Oscars, I would have this weird paranoia of…

— Mike White

A miracle no longer seems to me a manifestation of extraordinary power, but an extraordinary manifestation of ordinary power. God is always…

— Lyman Abbott

If - you know, it seems to me that if we see Matt Cooper being carted off to jail today, a lot…

— Michael Isikoff

So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes… TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium.

— John Mason Brown

When I was young, people lived from paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit…

— Robert Kiyosaki

I want it to be more natural. Right now it feels really forced. Seems like I've never done a curtsy before, which…

— Serena Williams

Lastly, waging war against good people is bad for the soul. This may not seem important to you now, but it's the…

— Joshua

Singing seems to be inherent in Filipino, just as it is in my race. That's why I have this affinity with Filipinos.

— Luke Evans

Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Kant's position is extremely subtle - so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it…

— Roger Scruton

If you get into multicultural sort of casting for no other reason than to diversify, then it seems false.

— Andrew Rannells

[M]y love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me to you with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break...

— Sullivan Ballou

These truths may seem simple and self-apparent and the words easy to say, but the states of mind that you live in…

— Frederick Lenz

Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide.

— Thomas Langmann

We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing…

— Noah Baumbach

They seem to be getting it together. How much damage will the picture of people spending four or five days on rooftops…

— James Carville

Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's…

— Hugh Laurie