Seems Quotes

7056 Seems quotes by 4268 unique authors

With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a… — Kingman Brewster, Jr.
It is in the union of the Ascending and the Descending currents that harmony is found, and not in any war between the two. It… — Ken Wilber
One can disintegrate the world by means of very strong light. For weak eyes the world becomes solid, for still weaker eyes it seems to… — Franz Kafka
Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they are not cruel… — Michel Houellebecq
Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to things which are genuinely of… — Michel Houellebecq
Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The… — Tina Brown
Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure… — Czeslaw Milosz
There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that… — E. Nesbit
I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I… — Dick Schaap
I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven… — Dorothy Allison
But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be… — Jonah Goldberg
What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground… — Henri Nouwen
Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What… — Henri Nouwen
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… — Marilynne Robinson
I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it… — Lawrence Block
To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked so long as… — Eduardo Galeano
How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it… — Louis Sullivan
The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. — Abraham Lincoln
Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question.… — Abraham Lincoln
It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer… — Martin Van Buren
Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it… — William Henry Harrison
As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on… — David Platt
God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object. — Richard Rohr
Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy. — Richard Rohr
The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved… — Jim Garrison

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