Seems Quotes
It seems to me that the only way one can be helpful is to extend one's hand to someone else involuntarily, and without ever knowing how useful this will be.
Face the thing that seems overwhelming and you will be surprised how your fear will melt away.
There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe.
The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.
It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.
I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion
Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.
When nothing makes sense and the world seems upside down, listen to your heart, it will never lie about your true feelings.
Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.
If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.
Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see .
If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.
Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity.
By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human nature mostly delights in - a fight.
It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did.
There's a lot of talk about self-esteem these days. It seems pretty basic to me. If you eat to feel proud of yourself, you've got to do things you can be proud of. Feelings follow actions.
I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too.
It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.
When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.
There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance, a gesture, or a remark, shriveling up the reality in which one is lodged.
Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.
When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money.
Being is unrecognizable unless it manages to seem, and seeming is feeble unless it manages to be.
Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a position of dominance while denying that systems of dominance exist.
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
Time management is the key. Although it seems hectic, as long as you manage your time properly you can get everything done.
It's not getting any better for the American people. It seems to be getting worse. That's predictable; education is a cycle. Stupidity breeds more stupidity.
All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing, And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring.
Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon.
It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America’s power. It has been the symbol of our great nation, we look at that monument and we say this is one nation under God.
I think if the general exodus that seems to be going on occurs it's going to be a disaster,.
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial.
My walk is a public one. My business is in the world, and I must mix in the assemblies of men or quit the post which Providence seems to have assigned me.
There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I cant be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.
