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7056 Seems quotes by 4268 unique authors

It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked… — Eleanor Roosevelt
In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old. — Nora Ephron
When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one… — Anton Chekhov
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy. — Jonathan Swift
The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go… — Clarence Day
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How glad I am to be able to roam in the wood and thicket, among trees and flowers and rocks ... in the country, every… — Ludwig van Beethoven
To me it seems our duty towards the Bible is to obey its teaching in faith. I do not think we are bound to understand… — Christina Rossetti
Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race.… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control. — Nicolas Chamfort
I come from grunge, and then Brit-pop, scenes where you boast about how little you spent on an outfit. ... Now, it seems you must… — Caitlin Moran
Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness. — Elizabeth Bowen
Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star… — E. M. Forster
Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. — Ernest Renan
The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land. — Thomas Jefferson
A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him. — Henry Ward Beecher
My fear of flying starts as soon as I buckle myself in and then the guy up front mumbles a few unintelligible words then before… — Dennis Miller
Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to… — John Stuart Mill
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. — A. E. Housman
Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads. — Lee Westwood
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's… — Abraham Lincoln
The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was… — Abraham Lincoln
The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and… — Thomas Jefferson
Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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