Seem Quotes

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

Drama is not hard for me. It just didn't seem hard.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.

I might seem biased, but I use Evernote every day. It came to me through my readers, who I'd asked for software recommendations via Twitter and Facebook. For seemingly every function, the answer was 'Man, you have to use Evernote.'

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

I seem to be attracted to the quiet, brooding type. But not too brooding. Too brooding can be narcissistic. Or psychotic.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks.

Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

I seem to have very polite fans, not fanatical ones.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.

I don't see myself as being as big of an influence as other people seem to think.

The Jets seem to be a franchise in freefall.

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

For some reason the most devoted mapheads seem to be kids.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

I've had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don't know many other authors who can.

The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.

I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.

All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.

It's so easy to get caught up in your own experiences. They can seem so important. But there are billions and billions of other experiences going on.

Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.

I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up.

I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.

I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.

Everytime I go to Vegas, I seem to incur some kind of fine.

There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers.

I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to give up crisps, or make my boobs shrink for that matter. Alas, I will never fit a size zero.

But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.

It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.

I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.

I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.

You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.

In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called!

All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.

Dreams seem to have a will of their own.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next.

I admire them for making their way up and opening new opportunities for other Latin newcomers. Latinos have come a long way and the roles and opportunities just seem to be improving.

Indoor pools just don't seem as inviting to me.

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

Ladies seem very intrigued by a guy who is ultra confident and acts like he doesn't need you.

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.

Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!

We still seem to trigger that intensity in people, which was quite incredible.

They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.

I didn't run off with the secretary. It made it seem like I had committed adultery and then ran off with a secretary, neither of which happened.

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something.