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Seems Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended…
- Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that;…
- The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet
- It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring…
- At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.
- If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your…
- Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of…
- In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the…
- Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see no reason why…
- There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime,…
- The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us…
- The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss…
- Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater…
- The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.
- The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
- As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
- The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and…
- Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am…
- We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in…
- At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock…
- Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems…
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