Seems Quotes

Though there are still many good people out there in the world, it seems that they're vastly outnumbered by the stupid, selfish, violent ones.

It just seems terrorists have an open blanket.

Fenworth!' Yes?' You bore me with your prattle.' Oh, regrettable that. Why don't you seek the company of someone who doesn't prattle? Seems like a good solution to your problem.

Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat, the end of something never felt.

A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read, in the peculiarly repulsive phrase, with my eyes glued to the page.

HISTORICALOVERDOSING:To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen.

Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for 200 years.

I'd like to expand the definition of the word 'success' to include 'failure' as the one seems inseparable from the other.

Parenthood seems really rewarding... like martyrdom, but without the glamour.

It seems to me that inner growth is the whole moving force behind voluntary simplicity.

You do look at a lot of movies and many characters seem to be interchangeable.

Conor McGregor seems like a good athlete, he seems like a decent counter-puncher. But, he also seems like a scumbag.

If there's some work to be done that seems like it will be fun, I'll do it. I don't take anything seriously at all.

Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet.

No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.

Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.

Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.

It's hard to say what exactly I like about New York. It's so vast. It seems to go on and on, but that's an illusion. Still, it's fun to be here, especially since I don't drive.

I'm not trying to denounce the visual past. It just seems impossible to me to be able to keep making the same image that I made six years ago.

It seems like a necessary balance to life, being part of the community.

The Republicans initially sort of saw George W. Bush as a blank canvas, didn't they? It seems like they interviewed him when he was governor of Texas to see what kind of candidate he could be.

In general, Americans like to be entertained. Canadians seem more suspicious of it.

When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.

Gold all is not that doth golden seem.

To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.

It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.

I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.

When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves

Whoso neglects a thing which he suspects he ought to do, because it seems to him too small a thing, is deceiving himself; it is not too little, but too great for him, that he doeth it not.

The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.

It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work or retrospective work.

I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I go.

There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.

Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars.

It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.

If quitting smoking seems hard right now, it is exactly what you should start doing

Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me.

When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move lets in chaos - as it does for a dog.

fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.

I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.

But the way to wealth through the quill seems long.

The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.

It seems like the Western genre has crept out of its casings during the last few years, and expanded to include books and movies we wouldn't originally have thought of as westerns.

It seems strange to think, that what gives us most hope for the future should be called Dolores, said Margaret.

Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.

Saving time, it seems, has a primacy that's too rarely examined.

Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation ... not delivering a lecture but saying what we think.