Seems Quotes

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.

If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wanted Terri in her full natural bloom, not with any blooming flower.

Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope.

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.

On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk.

Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.

The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.

But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain.

Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.

Because image traffic has become so heavy and so continuous, it now seems as if these millions of images came into being by themselves, without the agency of a person.

The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

Education will open doors where none seem to exist.

It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about.

I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.

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.

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.

As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to me to be fundamental.

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

There is a weird phenomenon where technology seems to be getting dumber in some ways as it gets smarter.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.

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.

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

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.

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

Sadness of any sort is also seductive, particularly if it seems deep-rooted, even spiritual, rather than needy or pathetic—it makes people come to you.

What seems good turns bad, what seems bad turns good. It is an endless cycle.

The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity.

In retrospect it always seems to work out that you can look back on something that was a disaster and find some gems in there.

What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances

I think Julianne Moore is the most radiantly beautiful human being and isn't messing with nature too much. She seems like a woman who treats her body like a temple. I cannot relate to that!

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

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.

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

Huge herds of vigorous, curious, open-eyed Americans freely roaming the world are, it seems to me, quite possibly a vital national resource today as at no other time in our history.

It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

I went camping for 33 days, and now everybody seems to care.

You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.

Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.

Women tend to immediately take responsibility if somebody messes up with both of us saying it's our fault. Men are quite happy for it to be your fault it seems like.

It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.

There's no law that decrees when not to whinge, but you reach a certain age - 80 seems about right - when you're expected to manifest querulousness - the coffee's too hot, the boiled egg's too soft.

Cohabitation seems a greater leap in cities because it's all the harder to extract oneself if things turn sour. It's what keeps otherwise functional adults living with their mothers.