Seems Quotes

But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all.

Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.

If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism?

When in still air and still in summertime A leaf has had enough of this, it seems To make up its mind to go; fine as a sage Its drifting in detachment down the road.

Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.

The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.

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.

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.

Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!

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.

It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism.

Anything that has to do with rock seems to be on the decline. There's not a lot of rock stations or MTV anymore, you just go on Youtube.

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless recycling of Doris Day Fifties clichés about noble womanhood.

Whenever I do a comedy show I still just read poems, some of which are intentionally funny and some of which are just bizarre. The mix seems to work well.

So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.

It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.

The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're going to be dreaming soon.

I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.

There seems no limit to research, for as been truly said, the more the sphere of knowledge grows, the larger becomes the surface of contact with the unknown.

There always seems to be someone looking over your shoulder - just waiting for an opportunity to lecture on The Darker Side of Chocolate

It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill, based in large measure on a healthy mistrust of the state.