Seems Quotes

The fact that there is a robust debate in Congress is good. The fact that the debate sometimes seems unanchored to facts is not so good.

If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect. We won't know what to fight for.

while everything else in our lives has gotten simpler, speedier, more microwavable and user-friendly, child-raising seems to have expanded to fill the time no longer available for it.

It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.

We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic.

Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards.

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

The healing of the world is in its nameless saints. Each separate star seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars break up the night and make it beautiful.

There's more well-known artists who aren't making as good songs as people who are just coming out of nowhere. That seems to be more typical in the last few years than ever.

It seems like when you're in the race, they do everything they can to ignore you, so maybe being out of the race [I] might get a little more attention, we'll see.

It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of the egg of Columbus!

It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.

That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to be of a piece with the rest.

What you would seem to be, be really.

If this seems complex, the reason is because Tao is both simple and complex. It is complex when we try to understand it, and simple when we allow ourselves to experience it.

It seems from my unique vantage point as both scientist and editor of JSE that substantial evidence exists of "something going on".

Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.

We know that the exercise of virtue should be its own reward, and it seems to follow that the enduring of it on the part of the patient should be its own punishment.

Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is he perhaps both as once?

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge

War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.

At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to understand what is meant by it.

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

Beauty, it would seem, was both a blessing and a curse.

A crushing hurt comes to our heart and the sympathizing, scarred hand of Christ presses the wound; and just for a moment,the pain seems to intensify,...bu t finally the bleeding stops.

A secret, like a chore, always seems to lead to another, one even more troublesome than the first.

True 'magic' is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one's experience. Maybe we could all use a little 'Harry Potter' in our lives.

I start a lot of photo projects but never seem to. . . .

Solar power seems to be truly bipartisan in its appeal.

Promoting a religious agenda that is to apply to every citizen is inconsistent with our laws in the US. It seems to me that your community and mine can live and work together without conflict.

It seems only yesterday I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I could shine.

It seems to me that references to bands like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin meant more to me a year ago and all those old things are totally losing importance.

I really think it's a white, bourgeois idea to pretend that you don't have influences. It seems to be the obsession strictly of white people in college.

Sweetness flows from your appearance and your beauty makes me fall more in love with you. Anytime I feel low, I think about the good times you have given me and everything seems good again.

Romantic Egoist: The thing is... it seems like you'd like to say something, but just can't.

You can have the coolest job in the world, but it only seems cool until you get sick of it.

It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.

The metaphoric mind includes rationality, linearity, and logic - for it created them. But like some children, the rational mind often seems embarrassed by the presence of its parents.

It's just different today. Nobody seems to last too long these days. I wouldn't know how to get started today.

I'm pro-life, in the sense that chaos seems like life to me and order seems like death.

Without a knowledge of the gospel plan, transgression seems natural, innocent, even justified.

All of it seems like noise and false light, and all I want for tonight is quiet, the black and gray of a summer night, and a girl in a pink dress, beside me forever.

As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it.

Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace.

To spend 36 hours or 48 hours of my life binge-watching something seems insane to me.

I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.

At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.