Seems Quotes · Page 27

Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.

— Bernard DeVoto

To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.

— Stendhal

Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal.

— Michael Douglas

Being in a state of mystery seems to be my calling.

— Luci Shaw

Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.

— Chris Lowe

When everything is going wrong, it seems like nothing goes right

— Gary Speed

I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is very subjective and having to put numbers on it seems counterintuitive.

— Mena Massoud

When you feel stuck and can't seem to move ahead, always remember that you don't have to get it right, you just…

— Barbara Corcoran

It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.

— Carroll O'Connor

It seems that humanity is incapable of putting a halt to the shedding of innocent blood.

— Pope Francis

You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem…

— Robert Greene

I've been worrying about God a little bit lately... It seems like he's been in a bad mood. And I think it…

— Salman Rushdie

Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.

— Bill Ayers

The deeds we do, the words we say,Into still air they seem to fleet;We count them ever past;But they shall last -In…

— John Keble

The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality.

— Ma Jian

The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of…

— Armand Salacrou

It seems unfortunate that strong people are usually so disagreeable and overbearing that no one cares for them. In fact, to be…

— L. Frank Baum

I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his…

— Mac DeMarco

I earnestly advise women of artistic tastes to train for the unworked field of modern photography. It seems to be especially adapted…

— Gertrude Kasebier

Joy is not dependent upon outward circumstances. Joy is something that we can have under all circumstances when we are sad or…

— Goswami Kriyananda

I think 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is a good example of a film where you have to juggle a whole…

— Niels Arden Oplev

Acting is a challenge at times. I mean, when you have scenes where you're jumping into a mascot bear to travel back…

— Josh Hutcherson

... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars to escape writing of the worst thing of all-- not the…

— Adrienne Rich

... the word "theory" ... was originally an Orphic word, which Cornford interprets as "passionate sympathetic contemplation" ... For Pythagoras, the "passionate…

— Bertrand Russell

Basically, when I hear it now, I don't recognize myself directly in a lot of cases. I was expecting more menace. And…

— Richard Meltzer

“Even if you have the wit to look by yourself in a bush away from the other children, there are not many…

— Yasunari Kawabata

I [i.e., God] have given you baptism as a gift for the forgiveness of sins, and preach to you unceasingly by word…

— Martin Luther

It seems to me that Mr. Sculley understood the very nucleus of existence, that he had kept his young eyes and young…

— Robert R. McCammon

Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn't exist' - 'The only effective regulation lies in the…

— Alan Greenspan

When it seems that God shows us the faults of others, keep on the safer side-it may be that your judgment is…

— St. Catherine of Siena

I guess I think that sex and desire and humiliation are central to my experience of consciousness - to my experience of…

— Garth Greenwell

The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.

— Aldous Huxley

To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.

— Robert McNamara

Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.

— Wernher von Braun

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.

— O. Henry

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

— Jacques Barzun

The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.

— Thomas Jefferson

For my part, getting up seems not so easy By half as lying.

— Thomas Hood