Seems Quotes

Be what you would seem to be.

Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from the Past, every step recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore.

there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path.

All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.

There are certain people I trust no matter what. Even when it seems like they've turned into monsters, you need to stay true to them. Because, in the end, they'll be the ones backing you up.

Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.

Rules? Ixion is supposed to be free of rules, yet it seems as strict as Grave in its own way and more...more dangerous.

Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.

There is no Death,/What seems so is transition.

it seems a silly kind o' business to bring us into the world at all for no special reason 'cept to take us out of it again just as folks 'ave learned to know us a bit and find us useful.

The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.

Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.

In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

I always wanted to do Restoration comedy. It seems like so much fun.

In this world, the spots where the present seems to overlap the past are the most important. These are the points when one becomes aware that the direction of the world can change.

In the end it seems we're just toys,easy to break and hard to mend

I thought the Made in America men's wear push was a big revolution in terms of smaller companies taking charge, but it seems like it's gotten out of control.

I've been doing the Millarworld stuff for decades, and everybody seems really happy that's working on it.

Grief can be a slow ache that never seems to stop rising, yet as we grieve, those we love mysteriously become more and more a part of who we are.

Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

Things always seem to glide away. They come to you, stay a moment, then leave again.

Mistakes, mistakes, it's all I seem capable of at times.

an expression of surprise falls from her face, though she's trying to keep it. it breaks off and she seems to catch it and fidget with it in her hands.

It seems to me, that's the only thing that ends up being really fulfilling or satisfying - your career.

In the moments I get it right, every step I take seems to be matched by a universal mystery, which obligingly, incredibly, creates what I can't.

It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God.

Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to me.

I always seem to write personal songs; that's always been my go-to thing, to write about what I'm experiencing.

It seems to me that the most delightful walk of life is to be found in a household of moderate means, to live there with an obliging spouse and to be satisfied with little.

I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but He never seems to give us more than we can bear.

The longer I stay in the States, the more I understand how important it is to smile and seem like a nice guy. Like Ronald Reagan. Your image seems to count more than what you do.

Do you suppose the St. Swithin's furnace-man was my one true love? Since I never spoke to him, it seems unlikely, but at least it was a passion unscathed by disappointment.

City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!

Sometimes it just seems that love is not enough, does it?

It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

Now it seems like a lot more people recognize me.

Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.

The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.

Nature often seems like an idea that has had its day.

Oftentimes, what seems to be a street lunatic charging at me spouting gibberish turns out to be a devoted 'Simpsons' fan quoting their favorite line.

Simperium seems like a genuine utility for our own apps, and for other people as a service. And Simplenote, as a product, I love, and it's just darn handy.

It seems like there's a real appetite for science fiction in the States.

I have a real problem with rock music because it seems that lineage doesn't really exist.

Italians still know how to enjoy life, even as the country seems stuck in place.

Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the form.

Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.

Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule.

Some actors go, 'Bing!' and suddenly they're being paid huge sums. Me, I seem to get screwed every time.