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Seems Quotes by Marilynne Robinson
- I can’t believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to me to be…
- Any father…must finally give his child up to the wilderness and trust to the providence of God. It seems almost a cruelty for one generation…
- It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God…
- The Lord is more constant and far more extravagant than it seems to imply. Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration.…
- The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light within light...It seems…
- People talk about how wonderful the world seems to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it,…
- That is how life goes--we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are born, it seems, for all the…
- It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years…
- Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to remember…
- To think that only faultless people are worthwhile seems like an incredible exclusion of almost everything of deep value in the human saga. Sometimes I…
- It seems to me there is less meanness in atheism, by a good measure. It seems that the spirit of religious self-righteousness this article deplores…
- ... but it's your existence I love you for, mainly. Existence seems to me now the most remarkable thing that could ever be imagined.
More Seems Quotes
- I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not… — Kevyn Aucoin
- 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