Seems Quotes

Great accomplishment seems imperfect, Yet it does not outlive its usefulness. Great fullness seems empty, Yet it cannot be exhausted.

Just when everything seems to go along just fine, Life comes by and throws you its line.

DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.

I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.

It seems kind of silly, but it's really nice to chill in the kitchen with a friend and bake. It relaxes me, and mixing is probably my favorite part.

We take pleasure in truth and it amazes the eye of the viewer to see in stone, in canvas, or in wood an inanimate thing that seems to move.

I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem.

To define [Canada] or its literature seems like putting a finger on Zeno's arrow: no sooner do you think you have done it than it has moved on.

I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.

God makes crooked straight for us and sets things right when they seem to go dead wrong.

God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance.

We live in a culture where people are self-centered and careerist and everybody seems to think they have too much on their plate or they just don't have time for other people's pain.

But it seems there is more than one way to poison a person's heart, and it doesn't require a meal.

Holland seems like a quaint toy.

. . . everything seems insupportable to me. This may very well be because I am insupportable myself.

I can’t believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to me to be a great part of the substance of human life.

It seems now clear that a belief in the functional importance of all enzymes found in bacteria is possible only to those richly endowed with Faith.

Confusing the author and the character seems to be a popular and rather unsophisticated reaction to books.

If we devote ourselves to the life at hand, the rest will follow. For life, it seems, reveals itself through those willing to live. Anything else, no matter how beautiful, is just advertising.

I thought about going back to working at the gas station. I probably didn't like it at the time, but now it seems very romantic.

Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.

The egotism of people who are eminent without being in the least distinguished and somehow feeling that's their due - that seems to me to be a peculiarly English phenomenon.

We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.

If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.

The most difficult thing in the world, it seems to me, is to realize that I am a child of God; to keep that in my mind all the time.

Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality.

Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.

Zivojinovic seems to be able to pull the big bullet out of the top drawer

Truth telling is the first building block of character -- a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving America.

I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me.

There seems to be a strong possibility that international humanitarian law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war crimes.

I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell

Goals help you keep in perspective what's really important so you don't spend all of your time doing what seems urgent.

When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.

The audience seems hazy to me, shrouded in a veil through which I can't see.

A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once for a Boeing 747 and for a string quartet.

Donald Trump seems to be unconcerned about the Russian aggression in Ukraine. By doing this he tells them that they can go ahead and do what they are doing. That is dangerous.

...cassoulet, like life itself, is not so simple as it seems.

I'm very wary of large groups of people getting together and trying to believe the same thing. It never seems to end well, whether it's political or religious or whatever.

Being a model seems like a dream job - lots of new clothes, cocaine, dates with Leonardo DiCaprio. But that's just for lady models.

It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man.

The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.

It seems to me self-evident that we cannot have capitalism without capital and, very importantly, that the ultimate source of all economic capital is Nature's capital

It seems to me that it's the best way of wasting money that I know of. I don't think investments on the moon pay a very high dividend.

All is not gold that glitters, Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters

It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy.

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort.

Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.

By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.