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2930 Seemed quotes by 1789 unique authors

I thought it was very elegant, a wonderful opening. The vegans seemed so surprised-God knows what they get to eat. — Gael Greene
We are all part of the life cycle. Like a seed we are born, we sprout, we grow, we mature and decay, making room for… — Margot Adler
The major concern ...was to create a monument which would have lasting significance and would be a landmark of our time... Neither an obelisk nor… — Eero Saarinen
Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful. — Ngugi wa Thiong'o
That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of… — J M Coetzee
I once heard a woman who had lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly missing from her world: the… — Caroline Knapp
Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no longer… — Sean O'Casey
The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been… — Daniel Craig
This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage was like, because… — Sylvia Plath
To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to… — Teju Cole
Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight:… — Teju Cole
I had never liked, even feared a little, this wild reach of marsh and mud flats where everything seemed turned away from the land, looking… — John Banville
Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the Shadow. — J.R.R. Tolkien
My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small! — James Blish
Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was. — Geoffrey Chaucer
I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Merely because I was black, it seemed, I was supposed to listen to Hugh Maskela instead of Carole King, just as I was expected to… — Clarence Thomas
As to the strong likeness between General Hamilton and Dr. Stevens, Mr. Yard could give no account; altho' it seemed apparent that he thought them… — Timothy Pickering
But we made our own fun, mostly. I recall a time, many years later, when American children seemed unable to amuse themselves without a fortune… — Maureen Johnson
One day, the Devil decided to go out of business. His tools, therefore, being for sale, were put on display; and Malice, Jealousy, and Pride… — James Keller
It was as if personality itself had a 'face'. This non-physical face of personality seemed to be the real key to personality change. It remained… — Maxwell Maltz
Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a… — Roger Bannister
Rage-the biggest, truest rage of her adult life-had invaded her like a fever, but it wasn't like any fever she had known previously. It circulated… — Stephen King
It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in despite of what… — J M Coetzee

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