Seems Quotes · Page 53

I don't [even] know the number of books on Abraham Lincoln. Ten thousand, twelve thousand? I have seen various numbers. It seems…

— Eric Foner

If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution…

— George Orwell

If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate…

— John Lancaster Spalding

I do not compare the past with the present without a prejudice for either, but, great as the improvement in country life…

— Flora Thompson

I'm nowhere with country music. I don't hear much of it, so I shouldn't venture an opinion, but when it finds me,…

— Emmylou Harris

Had the jury convicted on proper instructions it would be the end of the matter. But juries are not bound by what…

— Robert H. Jackson

It seems a little self-involved to be like, 'Oh, he's hitting on me.' Maybe he's just trying to start up an innocent…

— Krista Allen

There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historians. The reason seems…

— Peter Kreeft

It seems to me that there are certain thoughts and vignettes and attitudes that I have always had the desire to represent.

— George Saunders

It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the…

— Robert Adamson

The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint.

— Elliott Abrams

Pakistan always seems to have a lot of political complexities and political challenges. But Pakistan is important for a number of reasons.…

— Dan Quayle

Knowledge is now accepted as the best we humans can do at the moment, but with the hope that we will turn…

— David Weinberger

I don’t know about ‘common sense opinion’ by the way. It seems to me that the office of common sense is to…

— Peter van Inwagen

With iron and blood, it seems, and from the rich depths of the earth, John Griswold has fashioned a classic American novel,…

— Bob Shacochis

The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern…

— William H. Seward

I have seen several deaths, too many deaths in my life, and they were all different. Each one was different. It didn't…

— Laura Huxley

Playboy seems like a sad magazine for me. It seems like for men who would sit around in a bath robe.

— Greg Gutfeld

'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and…

— Adam McKay

It seems to be the special peculiarity of human beings that they reflect: they think about thinking and know that they know.…

— Alan Watts

Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings…

— Colin Wilson

We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind…

— Claude Bernard

I can focus on what seems to be the most boring things for days at a time.

— Thomas Massie

Remember that no piece of honestly conducted research is ever wasted, even if it seems so at the time. Put it away…

— Anthony James Leggett

It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to…

— William Shenstone