Seems Quotes

If you have no soul you can gut it out. You know, like a marionette, you'll just follow what seems to actually give you whatever you ain't got.

Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless.

I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.

Playboy seems like a sad magazine for me. It seems like for men who would sit around in a bath robe.

That men should kill one another for want of somewhat else to do, which is the case of all volunteers in war, seems to be so horrible to humanity that there needs no divinity to control it.

It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.

Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd.

I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours... seems likely that I'll go on squandering till the very end.

At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression changes completely: I see it as big, and even terrifying in its bigness.

Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.

Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.

Great love endures time, heartache, and distance. And even when all seems lost, true love lives on.

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me

Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.

Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying.

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

Game of Thrones' is a fantasy show not dedicated to any specific time, but it seems to exist in sort of a 1400s medieval fantasy world, and in that setting, I wouldn't have had a six-pack.

I don't want people running around saying Gwen Brooks's work is intellectual. That makes people think instantly about obscurity. It shouldn't have to mean that, but it often seems to.

I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.

I think baseball has moved on in many ways and the focus on the competitions on the field is really what the game is all about. It seems to be healthy. It seems more people are watching it.

The potential audience seems to be dwindling in the states. I was kind of embarrassed for the band because of the size of the audience.

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.

I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.

And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a good many things.

Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.

It's not too far; it just seems like it is.

The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling mantle of the Prophet seems.

Each new epoch in life seems an encounter. There is a tussle and a cloud of dust, and we come out of it triumphant or crest-fallen, according as we have borne ourselves.

It is never too late to begin rebuilding, Though all into ruins your life seems hurled; For see! how the light of the New Year is gilding The wan, worn face of the bruised old world.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage. It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling.

The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.

Like IBM, the company [Microsoft] seems to have been spooked by the federal antitrust action against it and became increasingly sclerotic and less inventive.

It seems to me every one of us is doing something meaningful for this world.

The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.

Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.

For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders.

How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain.

[On the birther movement:] Here we are, quadrillions of bytes deep into the Information Age. And yet information, it seems, has never mattered less.

I do not define my job in any rigid terms but in terms of having the flexibility to what seems to me to be in the best interests of the company at any times.

Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.

So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!

And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life.