Seems Quotes - Page 35

• Haven't lost your sense of humor after all but your sense of identity is what seems to have been misplaced. No. Wrong. You don't lose what you never had.

  Judith Guest

  Identity, Sense Of Humor, Lost

  Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.15, Penguin

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• Life, it seems, is not meaningless but, rather, so full of meaning that its meaning must be constantly murdered for the sake of cohesion and comprehension. For the sake of the storyline.

  Steve Tesich

  Sake, Cohesion, Comprehension

  Steve Tesich, E. L. Doctorow (2004). “Karoo”, p.325, Open City Books

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• We're left with so little to go on. Only the present is full enough to seem complete, and even that is an optical illusion. The moment is bleeding off the page. We live on the precipice of our perceptions. At the edge of every living instant, the world shears away like a cliff of ice into the sea of what is forgotten.

  Ivan Vladislavic

  Ice, Sea, Perception

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• When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.

  Baroness Orczy

  Sadness, Gay, Echoes

  Baroness Orczy (2012). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.140, Courier Corporation

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• Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.

  George Crumb

  Moving, Writing, Years

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• In the past, [medicalization]has been portrayed as something that doctors inflict on a passive and un-suspecting world - an expansion of the Medical Empire. But in reality, it seems that these reductionist bio-medical stories can appeal to us all, because complex problems often have depressingly-complex causes, and the solutions can be taxing, and unsatisfactory.

  Ben Goldacre

  Past, Reality, Doctors

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• I think all kids think their parents are strict. My parents aren't superstrict, but they seem to be stricter than most. But even though it's like, 'Oh, gosh, I've gotta be in at this time,' they know what they're doing. I have great parents.

  Cody Linley

  Kids, Thinking, Parent

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• It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.

  Floyd Abrams

  Rights, People, Not Good Enough

  "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn - Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. une 15, 2005.

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• If you are to use Alexander Graham Bell’s product, which is to say the blower, you should, in all courtesy, use it as he would have wished; and Dr Bell insisted that all phone calls should begin with the words ‘Ahoy, ahoy’. Nobody knows why he insisted this – he had no connection to the navy – but insist he did and started every phone call that way. Nobody else did, and it was at the suggestion of his great rival Edison that people took to saying ‘Hello’. This seems unfair.

  Mark Forsyth

  Phones, People, Navy

  Mark Forsyth (2012). “Mark Forysth's Gemel Edition: The Etymologicon and The Horologicon ebook bundle”, p.334, Icon Books Ltd

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• As things get worse and the State seems powerless to help, the State will seem less and less legitimate. People will lose their moral connection to it. Laws will seem more like revenue traps and shakedowns. The state will start to seem more like another extortion racket, and, as in Mexico, people will have a harder time telling the good guys from the bad guys.

  Jack Donovan

  Law, People, Guy

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• Fun is temporary at best; it's risky, even dangerous, at worst. Joy, on the other hand, was mystery I couldn't seem to decipher.

  Liz Curtis Higgs

  Fun, Hands, Joy

  Liz Curtis Higgs (2004). “Bad Girls of the Bible: And What We Can Learn From Them”, p.8, WaterBrook

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• So far in facing this huge [peak oil] challenge, our political/economic system seems unable to cope with reality. We are forced to carry on living in an illusion that we have so much time to adapt to post-oil that we don't even need to be talking or thinking much about what a world without plentiful oil would look like. Reality has become too dangerous.

  Madeleine Bunting

  Reality, Thinking, Talking

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• For readers worldwide, the attraction of romance novels seems to be that they provide hope, strength, and the assurance that happy endings are possible. Romance makes the promise that no matter how bleak things sometimes look, in the end everything will turn out right and true love will triumph -- and in an uncertain world, that's very comforting.

  Leigh Michaels

  Romance, Comforting, Promise

  Leigh Michaels (2007). “On Writing Romance: How to Craft a Novel That Sells”, p.5, Writer's Digest Books

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• The modern world lies under a pervasive sense of anguish, of being abandoned, or at least experiencing God as absent. Yet events that seem to turn our lives upside down and inside out are part of God's redemptive plan, not only for us, but for the world in which we live. God may be preparing a great awakening for the world, if God can find enough people to cooperate in this mysterious plan.

  Thomas Keating

  Lying, People, Events

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• When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wise, Silly, Book

  Jonathan Swift, David Laing Purves (1871). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author”, p.520

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• Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Hopeless, Whole

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.166, Routledge

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• Don't plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account.

  Oswald Chambers

  Taken, Upset, Way

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.392, Discovery House

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• Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession,
  and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rock
  like a sculptor's hunk of Italian marble: Whack it
  and you might get either your first glimpse of a saint
  or a pile of rubble.

  Lucia Perillo

  Italian, Rocks, Names

  Lucia Perillo (2012). “Inseminating the Elephant”, p.37, Copper Canyon Press

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• Well, considering my entire life, now seems rules by odd coincidences, I figure it's right on track.

  Alice Clayton

  Track, Coincidence, Odd

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• The thing that's really rewarding is when people will say to me that they had actually given up the bass, but are going to start again because the online school seems like a good idea.

  Nathan East

  School, Ideas, People

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• I want to try not to repeat myself. But then I seem to do it continuously in my films. It's not something I make any effort to do. I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience. I feel I get criticized for style over substance, and for details that get in the way of the characters. But every decision I make is how to bring those characters forward.

  Wes Anderson

  Character, Interesting, Effort

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The world is truly round and seems to start and end with those we love.

  Nelson Mandela

  World, Ends, Those We Love

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• One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.

  Frederick Buechner

  Earth, Fool, Enough

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Feb 20, 2017

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• Inherited hatred (i.e. hatred your parents schooled you in) is not only stupid, it is destructive - why make your only driving force hate? Seems really f***ing dumb to me.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Hate, Stupid, Hatred

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• If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.

  Jack Johnson

  Love, Like You, Playing Around

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