Seems Quotes · Page 95

That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system,…

— Benjamin Franklin

The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.

— Carl Jung

Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature…

— Fay Weldon

I've never been one for religion, but yet I've never been what ye could call an unbeliever. What I say is, nothin'…

— Elizabeth Goudge

You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It…

— Ruth Benedict

Money may not be your best friend, but it's the quickest to act, and seems to be favorably recognized in more places…

— Myrtle Reed

Celebrity seems totally at odds with authentic community and honest, real sorts of relationships.

— Rob Bell

Baseball is a lot like the ivy-covered wall of Wrigley Field--it gives off a great appearance, but when you run into it,…

— Hank Aaron

If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if…

— Tim O'Brien

Many events seem to happen twice to me; even trifles, unimportant-seeming, recur, as if I were destined to live them again, time…

— Han Suyin

Even the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks. They're all "physically inhabited," for lack off a better expression. For…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I don't like going to the studio. It just seems too cold. There's no crowd to react to, or share anything with;…

— Cass McCombs

Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems…

— Harrison Salisbury

No one can stop or control your thought process or your thinking. You can think anything you want. But that doesn't seem…

— Chogyam Trungpa

What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests…

— William Devane

Isn't it sad, that in a time when we face so many devastating problems - poverty, HIV/AIDS, war and conflict - that…

— Desmond Tutu

If you sit down with a person, or a watermelon for that matter, when you're stoned and sing into it, the quality…

— Terence McKenna

I think we have a little added appreciation for the Canadian fans, maybe because there's a lot of Canadians that want a…

— Trevor McNevan

The very best [infographics] engender and facilitate an insight by visual means — allow us to grasp some relationship quickly and easily…

— David Byrne

But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand…

— Pablo Picasso

As you get drawn more and more into other activities, like political activities, very demanding, you have to find different rhythms of…

— Wole Soyinka

Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be…

— Immanuel Kant

So it seems that because of every syndrome and disorder we've invented in the past twenty years, the Los Angeles Times reported…

— Christopher Titus

Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to…

— Sarah Bernhardt

Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.

— C. S. Lewis

There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here.

— Gwen Ifill

'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.

— Gary Ross

Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.

— Charley Reese

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

— Salman Rushdie

Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.

— William Penn

The GOP/corporate right-wing, it seems, never really considers the consequences of their actions.

— Steven Weber

I feel it is important to point out that individuals can make a difference, that things that seem impossible one day might…

— Birgitta Jonsdottir

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

It's not getting any better for the American people. It seems to be getting worse. That's predictable; education is a cycle. Stupidity…

— Bill Maher

So many of my friends, old friends I haven't seen in years, made their way out there and got lost, then found…

— Robert Carlyle

It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.

— Terence McKenna

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It seems probable that humans have been on the planet, with much the same brain, for about 250,000 years.

— Patricia Churchland