Seems Quotes

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease.

In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason.

You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.

I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask.

But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.

It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.

Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity.

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.

I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way.

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

95% of the album is my writing, by choice, because it seems to be what the distributors want.

And it seems to me correct then, and I think it's correct now, that job one is get the planning done, make sure the buses are there. When that's done, it's completely appropriate to go around and tour around and look at the damage.

This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.

It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come.

When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast.

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place.

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

The world is in motion, as it seems.

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.