Seems Quotes

Using the stratagem of defining character by what changes and what remains the same, the one constant always seems to be regret. We are defined by the objects of our regret.

I just don't think it's true that people can't do something else after they've done something that seems so permanent.

Whenever you see people talking about how real they are or how normal they are, it seems odd to have that self awareness that you could potentially not be normal.

There's so much mudslinging going on, and people get so turned off by that. It seems like neither party is aware of that. They're too concerned with blasting each other.

These days in particular it seems not only unavoidable but even irresponsible to not acknowledge politics in some way.

The president-elect seems to want Russia as a friend. President Obama arguably has not wanted to say that Russia is that great of a threat.

In England, pop music seems now to be exclusively for children. If an artist is no good, why is it necessary to have that artist repeatedly rammed in our face?

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

There's nothing you can say that won't make you seem ungrateful or rude.

Every generation seems to have its members who think the world has gone to hell and a hand basket and that they need to explain a challenging world to their kids.

Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.

There's a big difference between a movie about relationships and a movie in which people talk about relationships. It seems like a lot of people have confused the two.

When we look at what's going on in the world and we see the immense level of conflict that seems to always be happening - you can always trace it back to competing narratives.

What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and humility.

The GOP/corporate right-wing, it seems, never really considers the consequences of their actions.

What's hard, it seems, is living up to the expectations Democracy imposes upon those who would participate in society.

It's easy to break things. Much, much easier, it seems, than building them.

Sometimes nature seems more beautiful than strictly necessary.

It seems like we wake up and it's a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, 'What the hell am I doing?'

For some decades now, it seems, there has been a ukase in place in American journalism to the effect that Canada is entitled to one story per season.

It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.

I've done other things, but it always seems like my sci-fi projects have been what people respond to the most, because those fans are extraordinary, so passionate.

Indoor pools just don't seem as inviting to me.

Promoting open and critical and respectful scientific discourse seems like a pretty good goal to me.

It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.

Seems nothing draws men together like killing other men.

Strength diminishes when it seems we are spending it in vain.

You know you've been in flow when time seems to have disappeared.

Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.

People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term.

The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart.

its not in my nature to go down without a fight even when things seem insurmountable

As the alcohol overcomes my mind, I hear the glass bottle shatter on the floor. This seems appropriate since I have obviously lost my grip on everything.

Since Mags seems to have no ill effects from the nuts, Peeta collects bunches of them and fries them by bouncing them off the force field.

You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old.

It seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough.

The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it.

Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.

I haven't changed. If it seems I'm becoming more mainstream, doesn't that mean instead that Japan is aligning itself with me? I haven't changed one bit.

Regarding drugs: just the existence of drugs seems troubling to me.

It seems like for the last 10 years, I've just been investing in the future.

It seems like I'm not [happy]. Because if you look at my tweets and what I think and say, it seems like I'm worried about what's going to happen.

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

Falling in love isn't as easy as it seems when you've seen love crash and burn right in front of your eyes.

Seems like the only one who doesn't see your beauty is the face in the mirror looking back at you.

If you're campaigning against ObamaCare, but you're also having to defend yourself for closing the government, that seems to take away the asset from you.

It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.

The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious.

It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.

Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding The strangeness seems to be accelerating.