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Seems Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the most appropriate to…
- America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be…
- It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men…
- One has freedom as the principal means of action; the other has servitude. Their . . . paths [are] diverse; nevertheless, each seems called by…
- The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is to be found…
- America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.
- Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move,…
- Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they…
- Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him,…
- Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If men are to…
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this… — Rowan Atkinson
- I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for… — Dave Attell
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all. — Saint Augustine
- Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. — Marcus Aurelius
- Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. — Jane Austen
- Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight. — Diane Ackerman