Seems Quotes

I love films where the world seems to be going a bit faster and everything's a bit brighter and more in focus.

It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.

The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable.

Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

There's always a great deal of business to be transacted in one's office. There are always visitors it seems to me, an unending stream of them, who come with letters of recommendation, or come actually on substantive business.

Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.

The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me.

I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is raised, workers are priced out of the market. That is the economic reality that seems, at least so far, to be missing from this discussion.

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

I went camping for 33 days, and now everybody seems to care.

The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.

My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.

What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living.

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.

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