Seems Quotes · Page 24

I love a challenge and saving the Planet seems like a good one.

— Paul Stamets

No family is ever what it seems from the outside.

— Lady Violet

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.

— David Hume

If quitting smoking seems hard right now, it is exactly what you should start doing

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't.

— Natalie Babbitt

[Donald] Trump seems to be begging for a fight or is it begging for a distraction?

— Chuck Todd

Masks are what they seem to be; not so the faces beneath them.

— Mason Cooley

When you get older, keeping the private stuff private seems less important.

— Lawrence Block

For nearly a hundred years, we have known that the material world is an illusion. Everything that seems solid - a rock,…

— Deepak Chopra

I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always…

— Jesse Ball

I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.

— Patrick O'Brian

It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on…

— Janette Turner Hospital

For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished…

— Bernard Rudofsky

I'm told I either look bigger than I do on television or that I look smaller than I look on television. No…

— Ichiro Suzuki

A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.

— Otto Weininger

It seems a little paradoxical to construct a configuration space with the coordinates of points which do not exist.

— Louis de Broglie

it is the modern nature of goodness to exert itself quietly, while a few characters of the opposite cast seem, by the…

— Hannah More

When I look like this into the blue sky, it seems so deep, so peaceful, so full of a mysterious tenderness, that…

— George MacDonald

There are a lot of very flamboyant and outlandish people and attention-seekers in L.A., and I think that's what makes L.A. appealing.…

— Roman Coppola

Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present…

— Laurie Foos

If the educated and influential classes in a community either practice or connive at the systematic violation of laws that seem to…

— Benjamin Harrison

In a way, going to Africa allowed me to see possibilities that sometimes seem impossible in certain conditions. It also allowed me…

— David Adjaye

Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is…

— H. G. Wells

I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for…

— Stone Gossard

Harmonizing religion and science makes you seem like an open-minded and reasonable person, while asserting their incompatibility makes enemies and brands you…

— Jerry A. Coyne

Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one…

— Henry James

Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to be happening at the moment is never the full story of…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

It's true that there is a rescue thing in people, and not just rescuing the family, which is kind of obvious from…

— Margaret Atwood

Cursing dads are terrifying, you know? Cursing dads are - I don't know why, but no. It just doesn't seem to me…

— Ian Frazier

To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there. The hardest…

— Sophia Bush

The Anarchists' uncompromising rejection of the State, the subject of Marxian sneers for its "absolutist" and "Utopian" character, makes much better sense…

— Dwight Macdonald

I remember a few years ago I was sitting at home with my wife watching the Oscars. I was sitting on the…

— Christopher Walken

It seems the brighter you are, the deeper the hole you get into.

— Tuesday Weld

When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.

— Walter Darby Bannard

I don't really seem to gravitate to romantic comedies.

— Aaron Paul

Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.

— Livy

I don't necessarily look for dark themes; they just seem to appear.

— Clint Eastwood

There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

— Oscar Wilde

People are not what they seem to be according to their looks.

— John Hurt

Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.

— Mignon McLaughlin