Seems Quotes

If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries.

The simple is carefully shunned by those who labour to seem what they would be.

The Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality.

...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility.

It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.

The dialogue between what's going on in the world and what's going on internally seems to be a natural thing - well, it's natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.

It is bound to come a moment when what seems close is still very far away.

As so often in life, things are not always what it seems.

There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.

What seems new is only new to us.

If you work with your mind, that will alleviate all the suffering that seems to come from the outside.

[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.

It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more.

There seems is predominantly a white person's drug addiction epidemic, so that's why you see white people in our film, Warning: This Drug May Kill You.

The sight, sound or even smell of a first love seems to burrow deep into the brain.

Fatigue seems to be a factor in this accident.

There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.

The more history I read, the more everything seems to point to the same thing.

It seems inevitable that you'd end up getting someone like Trump telling us all how important and amazing he is.

It seems so tragic to me that so many filmmakers are making movies up against this extra-ordinary revolution with one eye closed and two hands tied behind their backs.

I'm hard to get rid of." He smiled. All Tegan's suspicions about the boy came flooding back. "So it seems," she replied icily.

There is no one to tell this to and yet it seems very important to get this right. The reality and what it is like to escape it. That even now it is sometimes too beautiful to bear.

Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt.

Yeah, it seems like it, right? It definitely was one of the best matches that I've played.

I like the idea of politically charged music a lot, but it usually seems to be preaching to the choir and ineffective.

To me, Twitter seems like a way for people to just let the world know about the most mundane bullshit that crosses their mind.

It seems that 'national security' is the root password to the Constitution. As with any dishonest superuser, the best countermeasure is strong encryption.

Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light.

If it ever seems to us that the world is a place where bad things only happen to good people, it is because we still believe that bad things happening to bad people is a good thing.

Seems to me-" Lee said, feeling for the words, "seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed.

The justice of it seems to children correct and right - I mean, we laugh at it! We underestimate children's ability to know what is a story and what isn't.

The day seems long, but night is odious; no sleep, but dreams; no dreams but visions strange.

Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.

It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work.

Happiness seems made to be shared. [Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.]

I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing a novel seems impossible.

If in so many parts of the world there are children who have nothing to eat, that's not news, it seems normal. It cannot be this way!

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.

Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay.

Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.

How many crossroads are you allowed to have in life? I seem to have a lot of crossroads. I think maybe I crossed back across the same road too often.

I stay in one room, and it's easier to live there, to control it, to make it warm. It seems to me a convenient way to live, and it's cheap.

Non-pantheist models for god seem almost completely untenable to me, though not without interest.

The peculiar thing is that, in focusing only on the here and now, Buddhism seems to despise the world.

Anyway, to cut off one's biological dreams seems to me the most fundamental form of psychic castration that you could imagine.

I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.