Seems Quotes

The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.

If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so small seems perverse. But the scale doesn't matter.

HOPE sustains us through despair. Hope teaches that there is reason to rejoice...even when all seems dark around us.

Sometimes it seems to me that that’s all my life has been, a series of things that I loved deeply that I could never have.

I've noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.

A stick or a stone only stings for a minute. A name seems to hurt forever.

When everything seems to go wrong, with peace of heart, you can press on. With peace of heart, you can press on, whatever life brings.

[Donald] Trump's narcissism seems to be reflected in his need to be liked and treated positively.

The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete.

Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

It seems that in connecting to what is true within myself, I help other people to connect. Making genuine connection lies at the beginning of building a real community.

I want to get a job naming kitchen appliances. That seems easy; refrigerator, toaster, blender. You just say what the thing does and add "er".

If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.

If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask the question? The thing is there are so many questions.

Spring seems far off, impossible, but it is coming. Already there is dusk instead of darkness at five in the afternoon; already hope is stirring at the edges of the day.

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.

The impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime markets seems likely to be contained.

Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.

Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of those that seem the most mysterious.

Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am / And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.

...Wild to hold, though I seem tame.

The nature of mind: much of its power seems to stem from just the messy ways its agents cross-connect. ...it's only what we must expect from evolution's countless tricks.

The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.

It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks.

Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

The most fundamental seems fickle.

I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

I'm a neat freak... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know?

Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted.

The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.

The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.

It always seems to be raining harder than it really is when you look at the weather through the window.

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitutions protection of privacy.

Things are never as bad as they seem.

I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our brain is worthwhile.

The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.

Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both.

People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along.

I can only approach it as a woman. Masculinity has been depicted in very black-and-white terms. There never seems to be a wide range of emotional definitions of men.

The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds.

As I play the game of life, I try to make it better each and every day. And when I struggle in the night, The magic of the music seems to light the way.

Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.

People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head.

Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.