Seems Quotes

God will make a way, where there seems to be no way. He works in ways we cannot see

Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.

I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.

It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.

There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless.

Amid life's quests, there seems but worthy one: to do men good.

Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take the time to enjoy where we are.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.

I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so it comes out the nose instead.

I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.

So much in life seems inflexible and unchangeable, and part of the joy of running and especially racing is the realization that improvement and progress can be achieved.

There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like a shadow, you suddenly and strangely feel perfectly okay.

The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science

The data show we can do something about upward mobility. Every extra year of childhood spent in a better neighborhood seems to matter.

While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we're defined by what embraces us.

Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.

A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head.

Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, 'I just might try it,' we are at the nexus of choice and persuasion that is advertising.

It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!

Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.

The thing that's really rewarding is when people will say to me that they had actually given up the bass, but are going to start again because the online school seems like a good idea.

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

It seems the more I try to connect with the world, I am feeling more alone than I ever have felt before

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Sometimes God's ways are not our ways. He may do something that seems unclear or even contradictory. We have to trust Him even when we don't understand Him.

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

I know I drive some people crazy with what seems like ridiculous optimism, but it has always worked for me.

Time just seems to fly away for a boy. That, I s’pose, is why one day you wake up suddenly and you ain’t a boy any longer.

The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls.

All too often, it seems, we're willing to be students of Christianity rather than disciples of Christ.

If peace seems elusive in your life today, commit yourself to God, commit your concerns to Him in prayer, and then rest peacefully as you trust in Him.

What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

Give yourself permission to shoot for something that seems totally beyond your grasp. You may be surprised at your capabilities

From the outside, I seem happy a lot. But, I'm human and it's not possible to always be happy.

It seems to me that in the orbit of our world you are the North Pole, I the South--so much in balance, in agreement--and yet... the whole world lies between.

When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient.

If you have an idea that seems worth doing, don't wait to hire other people and get funding and all those things. Just start doing it, wait to see what happens, and then iterate on that.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

There seems to be a lot of excitement around something that, to me, is a yawn, frankly.

It seems to me that a Christian like myself is presented with major problems, but they're nothing like the problems of the atheist.

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.

The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we will kill you.

Ella knows her way around her voice as very few people today. But there are times when she seems to be unaware there are things the human voice just doesn't do. She does them.

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.