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We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.
The diminution of the reality of class, however socially desirable in many respects, seems to have the practical effect of diminishing our ability to see people in their difference and specialness.
Where are we going?” Annabelle asked, resisting his hold on her wrist. “To the house. If they’re not willing to be witnesses, then it seems I’ll have to debauch you in front of someone else.
I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time.
The motivation to paint seems more pure, or at least more personal, when the artist is doing it for herself.
Lil Wayne is talented. He seems to be the dominant figure in this particular era of hip-hop. So you know, he's doing his thing.
I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.
It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart.
I'm very moved and very excited. And it just seems to me here are houses and trees and streets that feel so different from New York. I feel very attached to London; I love it.
I'm from Jersey, so I have a love of T.G.I. Friday's and chain restaurants in general. When you go to a Friday's, it seems like everyone's on ecstasy and way too happy anyway.
To be good to yourself ... Sometimes it seems that takes a special talent all its own.
Acting seems much easier than singing, in fact, because you are putting on a costume - whereas here you are taking everything off.
What produces the general good is always terrible or seems bizarre when begun too soon. The Revolution must stop when it has perfected public happiness and liberty through the laws.
The Internet, which seems now so embedded and personal and crucial to our lives, isn't at all - we really shouldn't think of it that way.
Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this speculation.
The paintings live because their creator has been passionately attentive to their theme, and his attention has left something for us to look at. It seems a sort of miracle.
What seems conceit, bad manners or cynicism is always a sign of things no ear have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.
Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
I get to do all these really nice, little culty things. It seems to be the world that keeps inviting me back.
Suppose we think while we talk or write--I mean, as we normally do--we shall not in general say that we think quicker than we talk, but the thought seems not to be separate from the expression.
Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy.
A miracle no longer seems to me a manifestation of extraordinary power, but an extraordinary manifestation of ordinary power. God is always showing himself.
Obviously the Internet makes everything easier - you get people's addresses and so on and everything seems much more accessible.
As with email, the recipient of a texted question seems to have the option to ignore it, while nevertheless saying hello, lovely day, and so on.
Nicholas this is one of those 'yes' or 'no' questions again. You seem to have a problem with those. Did you or did you not kill a woman - Jo
Everything I think seems to be controversial, so I feel like I need to just go away for a second and put it all down on paper until the storm passes.
The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.
When my world seems to crumble all around, and foolish people try to bring me down, I just think of your smile face, and I'm flying.
When you make a movie, it seems like there's nothing but resistance. It's kind of a miracle that any movie ever gets made.
Sometimes it seems to me I've known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints.
I do seem to have a bit of a predilection for movies that say something transgressive.
Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.
It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see…I can only hope that’s correct, because there’s an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.
Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.
There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.
There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual values could be properly balanced.
Worrying seems like a fairly natural state of being for a parent, so feel free to worry as much as you want.
I still get recognized. It's flattering, but it can be uncomfortable. Maybe because it only seems to happen when I'm looking and feeling crappy.
The truth, it seems, is not just what you find when you open a door: it is itself a door, which the poet is always on the verge of going through.
faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.
Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.