Seems Quotes

He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war.

It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.

But for the first time in many years, I get to sleep in my own bed every night. I haven't done that, literally, in years. It seems like such a small thing, but it is so nice.

It seems that humanity is incapable of putting a halt to the shedding of innocent blood.

The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual.

I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment.

It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away.

It seems we're always in transition and that it's more about trends than it is about what's meaningful.

When you see Charlie Chaplin, he stays funny. He doesn't become drama, and so what really seems to endure is comedy.

I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character.

To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself.

You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success than that's your bad luck.

I want to conquer the world and it seems like my own family is putting a stop to that.

It seems like movies normally take a long time to get made. When you focus on it, and you're waiting for something, it seems to take longer.

It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations

It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.

They (the women) will always do it, it seems to me... I am woman and I am strong.

Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work.

It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now.

[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant.

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.

And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.

It seems better to me for a child to have these skills and never use them, than not have them and one day need them," she said.

It seems unfortunate that strong people are usually so disagreeable and overbearing that no one cares for them. In fact, to be different from your fellow creatures is always a misfortune.

When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.

I don't like to do anything that's mean spirited just because I don't find it funny. I'd rather be the jackass than makes fun of somebody else. It just seems too cheap and easy.

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

The sturdiest virtue seems fragile.

Nothing is so clear in history that is it happens for any one thing. It seems that a lot of things come together to make great changes.

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.

I still read the British papers, but I’ve never been a Royalist, ever. It’s funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England.

Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences.

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one.

Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.

You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.

But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.

The grandest virtue seems deficient.

Paul Klee seems to handle colors and dreams as if they both came out of a box of children's toys. He plays and dreams with whatever he finds.

Be nice to each other. Not a lot, but seems like the most obvious thing.

Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry.

Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people, most - than most proposals for involuntarily fertility control.

It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.

Now some alien force seems to have come and captured the Dodgers. I don't know what happened to my Dodgers.

In many climbing cultures, it seems that dirty ethics and poor style are acceptable. In mine they are not.