Seemed Quotes
2930 Seemed quotes by 1789 unique authors
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A truly global economy, as opposed to the multinational economy of the recent past, will require concessions of national power ... that seemed impossible a…
— Walter Wriston
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Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and…
— Victoria Abril
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I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself,…
— Pierre Loti
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I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about…
— Pierre Loti
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Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was beginning…
— Susan Griffin
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As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace…
— Albert J. Nock
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I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.
— Joe Klein
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When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and Marconi…
— John Powell
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It seemed so illogical to punish some poor criminal for doing something that civilization taught him how to do so he could have something that…
— Chester Himes
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Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges. but I was…
— Denis Johnson
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I have observed that, generally speaking, network sports announcers did not tend to live to a ripe old age. On the other hand, I had…
— Lindsey Nelson
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There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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It was a strange season coaching under that new [Alderson] regime. I felt like I was watching the deterioration of the Mets organization. They seemed…
— Mookie Wilson
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No one who had never been depressed like me could imagine that the pain could get so bad that death became a star to hitch…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.
— Martha Gellhorn
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I came home one day from school after being chased by kids singing “Yellow Submarine”, and I didn't understand why. It just seemed surreal: why…
— Dhani Harrison
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So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after
— Mona Simpson
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Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles Dickens had called…
— Jan Morris
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All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in scientific knowledge. Love is the…
— Mo Yan
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The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and,…
— Kenneth Grahame
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We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an…
— Anne Dudley
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Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.
— John Mortimer
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...even on the low ground of common sense I seemed to be called to be a missionary. Is the kingdom a harvest field? Then I…
— William Carey
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To me the soul of an Indian seemed as precious as the soul of an Englishman, and the Gospel as much for the Chinese as…
— James Gilmour
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed resonated with progressive educators, already committed to a 'child-centered' rather than a 'teacher-directed' approach to classroom instruction. Freire's rejection of teaching…
— Sol Stern
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