Seem Quite Quotes
26 quotes by 26 authors
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The most entertaining songs don't always come from a nice place. In songs where I think I'm being really sensitive, they seem quite boring actually.…
— Jarvis Cocker
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The greatest marvel is not in the individual. It is in the succession, in the renewal and in the duration of the species that Nature…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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I believe that Chess possesses a magic that is also a help in advanced age. A rheumatic knee is forgotten during a game of chess…
— Vlastimil Hort
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For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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When authoritative reports of radical-design craft having spectacular performance are viewed in the light of a stream of astrobiological discoveries, the possibility that some UFOs…
— Don Berliner
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Even in these mercifully emancipated decades, many people still seem quite seriously alarmed at the prospect of sleeping away from officially consecrated campsites, with no…
— Colin Fletcher
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The Warrior does not worry that, to others, his behavior might seem quite mad.
— Paulo Coelho
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Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if…
— Jack Handey
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Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by…
— Herbert Spencer
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All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that…
— John Stuart Mill
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And that, quite simply, is the issue. We live in a finite world with finite resources. Although it may sometimes seem quite big, earth is…
— David Suzuki
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In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India…
— Tahir Shah
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The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about…
— Morley Safer
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Golden Verses So-called because they are "good as gold." They are by some attributed to Epicarmos, and by others to Empedocles, but always go under…
— Pythagoras
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Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.
— Lev Grossman
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I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent of…
— Susan Orlean
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I can be me, and people seem quite happy with that.
— Michael Palin
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What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet…
— George Eliot
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This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to agree, but only…
— Milan Kundera
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WHERE did you say it was?' asked Pooh. Just here,' said Eeyore. Made of sticks?' Yes' Oh!' said Piglet. What?' said Eeyore. I just said…
— A A Milne
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