Seems Quotes

Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.

The reserve currency role seems to add prestige to an area and some people in Europe have talked about the desirability of the euro becoming an international reserve currency.

Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me.

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in this music, which is lyrical and passionate at the same time.

In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.

Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.

But then there is the one who seems to have a hard time separating the actor's work from reality.

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.

So something about that touched me, obviously, when I was young and it just stayed with me. I'm always amazed by that, because my experience seems to be so much different than what I'm told, so much of the time.

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.