Seems Quotes

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.

Since ancient times, spiritual masters of all traditions have pointed to the Now as the key to the spiritual dimension. Despite this, it seems to have remained a secret.

It seems that for many the cure to acne is at the end of their fork, not in a prescription pad.

As I have discovered again and again, things are never as bad (or as good) as they seem at the time.

There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.

There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.

The age of the proof is in decline, it is the hour of 'witness' that is coming, hour of the 'marturioa', very calm and very complete: a hope which seems close to being realised.

Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.

I'm told I either look bigger than I do on television or that I look smaller than I look on television. No one seems to think I look the same size.

Anytime there is a struggle between doing what is actually right and doing what seems right, then your ego is interfering with your decision.

Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.

You are your own best teacher. My advice is to question all things. Seek for answers, and when you find what seems to be an answer, question that, too.

Life is about more than earning a living, and if you're not in the habit of thinking about it, you can end up middle-aged or even older and shocked to realize that your life seems empty.

True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.

I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth in what seems to be an instant.

Men become cannibals of their own hearts; remorse, regret, and restless impatience usurp the place of more wholesome feeling: every thing seems better than that which is.

Bring together things that have as yet never been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.

Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.

The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar.

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

As we get older, things seem less important.

Everyone seems to think I'm very ladylike. That I'm very cultured and intelligent. I drink alot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the F-word. I've told a few dirty jokes. I arm-wrestle.

It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system.

Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.

Even in the worst of situations-even when it seems no one in the world appreciates you-as long as you have hope, everthing can get better

There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.

Authority that is not confirmed by true reason seems weak. Whereas true reason does not need to be confirmed by any authority.

People always like things that seem exotic.

When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad.

Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality for all the world's people

From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true—he probably is.

I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.

Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened.

Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing.

To me I seem to be constantly growing. I must respond to varying conditions, yet remain changeless within.

If you seem something that is true and do not act then you are wasting your life. And life is too precious. It is all that we have.

The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.

America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others.

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

The loss of reason seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

I don't care about wealth. What seems to be upsetting is institutionalizing the advantages that wealth gives you.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Someone always needs rescuing, yet there's only one person who ever seems to understand you. It's a lot like being Lassie.

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases

Seems you can't outsmart Mother Nature.

It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. We are tenants, not possessors, lovers and not masters.