Seem Quotes

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.

Careers don't seem to be built up in the same way as they were in the 80s.

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.

Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters.

The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.

Milkmen seem so wholesome, and there's no way anybody can be that wholesome.

But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good.

I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.

I do get a bit of a sense, just from e-mails some people send me, just a little sense of how people in different countries seem to respond differently to certain lines in a song.

When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.

I do find myself surprised by the comedy shows that seem to have the same joke week in week out.

Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.

I seem to get recognized more in London and Europe than over here in the States.

Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.

To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.

I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient.

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the time.

To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred.

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it.