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Seems Quotes by George Eliot
- There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems…
- How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank,…
- It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to us. It is…
- Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the…
- It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be…
- To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
- Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
- Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies…
- Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
- There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks…
- Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
- Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and…
- I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs…
- If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age…
- It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy…
More Seems Quotes
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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