Seems Quotes

Nature seems to look after her own only up to a certain point; beyond that they are supposed to fend for themselves.

All the discoveries seem to be discoveries of means.

Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.

A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber.

His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all.

She said I've heard you flying high on my radio I answered "It's not all it seems" That's when she laughed and she said, "It's better sometimes When we don't get to touch our dreams.

The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.

The act of getting married, stripped of the necessity to have a secure setting to raise children, seems to me no less grim than registering your emotions with the government.

Music can happen with equal ease as a solo or collaborative venture, it seems to me.

Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.

It seems to me, though, that you always understand very well what I can't say very well. Trouble is I end up being even worse at saying things well.

I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes.

It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.

I think I'm just more adaptable now, so danger, overall, seems less dangerous to me.

It seems to be almost inevitable that the man who accepts a subordinate economic position in the Family degenerates into a loafer and a tyrant.

But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed.

It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically .

[Ronald] Reagan seems to be a man of some basic convictions and on the other hand willing to let others do the ground homework, the detailed work.

However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.

...the word that seems best to summarize the desire of the human heart is 'communion.' ...wherever we look it is communion that we seek.

I'm thinking about doing dusty colors - we definitely are doing as much color as we can. It seems that fashion is back on track with color - I hope. It's been very black for awhile.

Most, it would seem to me, do not care for nature and would sell their share.

How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a slight outrage against universal laws.

Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.

Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler.

It seems as if the more youthful and impressible streams can hardly resist the numerous invitations and temptations to leave theirnative beds and run down their neighbors' channels.

The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.

If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!

Once ignorance is weaponized, violence seems to be a tragic inevitability.

People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.

Dreams seem to have a will of their own.

Shirley Sherrod seems like a good and dedicated person.

'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.

I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet seems to have little use for us.

Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.

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.

The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seems to limit it.

And the visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.

To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote.

That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that.

Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy.

This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems to think this way.

In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the perfect mind to me.

People should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness. But for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy.

I have to say, that I am delighted that Secretary [Hillary] Clinton month after month after month seems to be adopting more and more of the positions that we have advocated.

I'm just am amazed that he seems to think the Iraqi government and our allies and everybody else launched the attack on Mosul for this election [2016].

Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being.