Seems Quotes

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.

All elections revolve around and are often resolved by who raises the most money. That's unfair. I'd like to see that process changed, but it seems once you win and get to Congress, that doesn't happen.

Europe seems a little softer, but in America it's harsh. In L.A., where I live, it's all about perfectionism.

I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault.

One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.

On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.

Research we've done seems to indicate that people who are on the Net like the idea that they don't have to leave what they are reading to go buy something.

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences.

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

When we're young we have a very clear vision of how life is supposed to be, and it all seems very neatly packaged.

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to.

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.

In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.

I've learned the lesson that when you're in the middle of something that seems overwhelming, or you're in a bad situation and it seems like it's the end of the world or whatever, then you learn that it's not.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the Nation, feel perfectly comfortable printing anti-American articles and that's fine. That's what the First Amendment is all about.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

At first, I am giving energy to the creation, but later the creation seems to be giving energy to me.

Everything for me has happened so quickly. I finished shooting 'The Blind Side' not this past June, but the June before, and all of sudden up to now, it seems like it's gone from zero to 60 for me. I feel so fortunate to be able to say that.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

The fact is I've been in Massachusetts for the last two weeks, and it seems over the last few days that the price is increasing by the hour at the pump, so there needs to be an aggressive investigation.

Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.