Seems Quotes

We are what we seem to be.

Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it.

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

I--though heart might find relief Did I become a Christian man and choose for my belief What seems most welcome in the tomb--play a predestined part. Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.

When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile

Slow seems their speed whose thoughts before them run.

What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality.

It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.

...It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.

It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.

Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed.

I can see television much more easily than I can see features, because the economy and politics of making big, big features seems to me to be narrowing even from what it was.

It seems as though everyone is going to the currency of celebrity. Everyone's getting their own account of whatever that currency is. That's something neat.

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.

A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result.

It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.

Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.

Earth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height.

From out the throng and stress of lies, From out the painful noise of sighs, One voice of comfort seems to rise: "It is the meaner part that dies."

We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.

All the events said to have been witnessed by John alone are omitted by John alone. This fact seems fatal either to the reality of the events in question or to the genuineness of the Fourth Gospel.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.

A man should be what he seems.

The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity.

The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous main, Seems to cast water on the burning Bear, And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole.

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

When you want full color perception, you must give up preferring some colors and hating others, for you can only hate one aspect of a color, not a whole color, it seems, hate being blind, like 'love.

Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses.

For all things are less dreadful than they seem.

It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

I get very sad when I think about Vietnam where there seems to be no choice but violence. This violence goes on for centuries perpetuating itself.

It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony.

I walk around a lot secretly. Even when I use a car, I park it briefly and walk. It seems that I still need some time alone to think and sort out things myself.

If global warming is such a bad thing, then why is it taking out all of mankind's competitors? It just seems to me that the less species are out there, killing all our Caribou, the better.

When a role seems fun it's easy to play. It kind of comes organically.

It seems to me now that the deep structures [in writing] are often subconscious and set in childhood.

Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to see the fruits of your actions in a daily way.

Mr. Fitzgerald-I believe that is how he spells his name-seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

Keep trying. It's only from the valley that the mountain seems high.

Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.

I've never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I'm, like, 'How do they do that?' It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something.

The fact is that when you talk about Mujib [Rahiman], everything seems so incredible. I don't understand how the world can take him seriously.

When you're frozen in time, nothing else really seems to matter.

Never stop seeking, even when it seems there is no hope

The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.

In today's world hunger for sanity seems to be more intense than our hunger for food.

When it seems there is no way out, it indicates that God wants to manifest His power and glory