Seems Quotes

I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.

I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across.

The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

It seems like they never say anything bad about actors, they just pump them up.

Each time I play a song it seems more real.

If that's your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a guy like John Edwards, who's just starting this new center in Chapel Hill to deal with issues of poverty and work.

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space.

Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis.

My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out; it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little.

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

In some ways, September 11, 2001, seems a long time ago. Yet we have done so much in only a few years, and we will continue to do so in the future, to prevent such attacks on America.

The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.

Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency.

When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley.

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all.

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.

It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together.

Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.

No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.

I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job - I mean, since she's been grown up.