Seems Quotes

Can we find "The Universe in a grain of sand"? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize.

The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.

It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.

When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.

It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.

Obama seems to want to do something to damage rich people.

If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.

My love for you tonight is so deep and tender that it seems to be outside myself as well.

College seems like a pretty expensive way to become an alcoholic.

In the search for truth - that everything in nature seems to hide - man needs the assistance of all his faculties. All the senses should be awake.

There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.

Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.

Have you ever started a path? No one seems willing to do this. We don't mind using existing paths, but we rarely start new ones. Do it today. Start a path. Even if it doesn't lead anywhere

The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.

It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.

You have to think before speaking. That's a quality I'm continuously evolving. For some reason, it seems like I'm bumping my head into the wall a little bit too many times.

It seems that the brain has a "small world" architecture - or at least the cortex does. Everything can connect to everything else in a few synaptic steps.

memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast pain.

Color is life, for a world without color seems dead. As a flame produces light, light produces color. As intonation lends color to the spoken word, color lends spiritually realized sound to a form.

Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.

The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.

The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a kind to satisfy this aim most completely.

Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.

So dull and dark are the November days. The lazy mist high up the evening curled, And now the morn quite hides in smoke and haze; The place we occupy seems all the world.

People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.

When I think of invention, I always think of America. You're always seeing ads: 'Have you got the next big idea?' There seems to be that spirit in America of inventions and inventors.

For me, it seems to help me take the pressure off if I don't pay attention to what other people are telling me.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].

To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.

All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.

When everything seems to be going well and your dream is almost within your gasp, that is when you must be more alert than ever.

It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.

Could America exist without an income tax? The idea seems radical, yet in truth America did just fine without a federal income tax for the first 126 years of her history.

It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation.

The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.

For some reason, Hollywood seems to have painted me as a gorgeous vixen at times or the sweet girl.

It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.

In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason.

Sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet.

A plausible rumor / Seems a lot more believable / Than the truth itself.

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

Even if the character is something that seems ridiculous on paper, there's a human element to everything. Otherwise, we don't connect with it.

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul. All souls are sacred, the soul of all the bipeds in every quarter of the globe.