Seem Quotes

There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.

You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned.

For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.

The Jets seem to be a franchise in freefall.

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.

Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.

It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.

I feel like I'm still learning a lot. I think there's a tendency for people who are just doing their first couple of films that I see now where they seem to be really resentful of the technical limitations that come along with filmmaking.

The more you make fun of yourself and don't try to go for any kind of respect, the more people seem to respect you.

People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I know it may seem surprising to people, but learning dialog that has a conversational flow to it is not that difficult.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

I'm not sure why anybody makes a physical CD anymore when the costs are so much lower to just throw it up on iTunes. And it doesn't seem that making a hard copy of something prevents pirating any less. I mean I'm amazed that they still do that.

It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.

I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.

The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.

You know, every country needs another country to mock, and Australians seem to be pretty good at impersonating American people. Maybe it's because all the movies and music and TV you see there is from America, so we just have the knack for it.