Seems Quotes

Like gluttony or drunkenness, hatred seems an agreeable vice when you practice it yourself, but disgusting when observed in others.

It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe... essence

Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.

The highest virtue seems as low as a valley.

It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true.

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.

A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.

Fernando Torres' English seems to be coming on good.

I work with whatever mediums seems best suited to evoking the sorts of thoughts and emotions I am interested in playing with.

“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”

God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about.

The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us.

It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers — not by logical deduction, but by something like a sense of smell.

It seems probable that humans have been on the planet, with much the same brain, for about 250,000 years.

Do not worry. Try to appear jolly and unconcerned. I have smiled often with the bases full with two strikes and three balls on the batter. This seems to unnerve.

Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem.

Believe it or not, fame is not as glamorous as it seems. I think it is much harder now with all of the media outlets, and people can be pretty nasty and harsh.

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark, but $120 for an earthquake emergency kit just seems unreasonable.

Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.

I don't understand capri pants. They seem like neither here nor there.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

Your place in Heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it.

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

It seems like the more I live, the more I realize that saying 'yes' is almost never a mistake. If you say no, it might feel safe, but then you end up going nowhere.

The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.

Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities.

I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.

It doesn't seem that long ago to me that the word 'irreverent' seemed affixed to my name. 'Irreverent newcomer.' I went from irreverent to venerable in what seems to me like the blink of an eye.

It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.

Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible.

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.

I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish.