Seems Quotes
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.
Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally real, uplifted in the sunshine.
There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.
Just remember that nothing is as bad as it seems and nothing is as good as it sometimes appears.
Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry
It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all.
It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.
When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.
It seems like every time I break up with someone they try to take all my friends. It sucks because your friends are the people you need the most when you are in pain.
Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to fight.
And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.
If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,...it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.
We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed.
I had no idea what I was doing, I had no idea where I was going, but at some point I stopped — when to keep going would seem like I was going too far.
Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.
When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.
There is something about the presence of a cat... that seems to take the bite out of being alone.
It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.
But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.
We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators.
The words are all around but the words are only sounds and no one ever seems to listen.
But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...as if into this one mountain mansion Nature had gathered her choicest treasures.
Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.
The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply
It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living.
I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
If you're looking for a boyfriend, you aren't gonna find one. They seem to come into your life when you least expect it.
Don't be a victim of the urgent. In the long run, much of what seems so pressing right now won't even matter. What you do with your children will matter forever.
Knowing how to fight made men more bold, because no one fears doing what it seems to him he has learned to do. Therefore, the ancients wanted their citizens to be trained in every warlike action.
I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes seems.
