Seems Quotes

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.

[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.

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

A light snow, a snow so faint and small-bodied that it seems nothing more than a manifestation of the cold.

Kant's position is extremely subtle - so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.

It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.

To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.

This command seems to me to be strictly a missionary injunction; so that, apart altogether from choice and other lower reasons, my going forth is a matter of obedience to a plain command.

It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to slavery.

Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.

Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'.

Seems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something's gotta go and happen.

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!

Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.

He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence

It almost seems that if you can describe it, you can change it.

It seems to me that maybe pretty much always means no. So dont tell me, I might just let it go.

Research now seems to indicate that one hour of inner action is worth seven hours of out-in-the-worl d action. Think about that. You're working too hard.

One must think until it hurts. One must worry a problem in one's mind until it seems there cannot be another aspect of it that hasn't been considered.

But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near.

It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.

Nothing can seem foul to those who win.

After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

I would like to do a part that would stretch me. In America it seems to me that you just take your clothes off and that helps, but I wouldn't want to do that.

It seems to be my mission in life to wait on a dog.

Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.

I'm clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They're like, 'Oh, her dramatic weight gain.' So, stop making fun of me!

Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.

But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone

Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.

It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please.

It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.

The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense.

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.

Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.

When there's a teacher who embodies presence, then it seems to come for a while through that opening. The teacher is an opening to presence.

The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot.

Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.

We should refrain from anything that seems to be a final judgment of any person...the Lord alone has the capacity to judge...And, in all of this we must remember the command to forgive.

The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.

I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.

For my part, getting up seems not so easy By half as lying.

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.