Seem Quotes

The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.

Making the solution seem so completely inevitable and obvious, so uncontrived and natural - it's so hard!

The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go To Hawaii. There don't seem to be any takers on that one!

There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore.

Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.

Friends in the Midwest often ask me what it's like to raise a family in Los Angeles. I say it's just like where they are, but warmer and with more traffic. I also tell them people here seem a bit more tolerant of those who are different.

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

I've been using the same editor, thankfully, she's been sticking with me, but I've been doing it full-on guerilla style... I haven't gotten any public sponsor or anything, because I don't want to seem like I'm trying to sell any particular thing.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.

Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Democratic leaders always seem to blame America first.

It seems like the opportunity just increases exponentially. There doesn't seem to be much stopping.

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

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

The magic can happen in a studio. Special things can happen in a recording studio, even though it may seem like a clinical environment from the outside looking in.

You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.

I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.

My parents always pushed creativity on us, but they made it seem like the fun thing to do.

These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.