I Quotes
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“It seemed that he had lost control over his own senses, so how then could he control his kingdom?”
Source: Samatya - An Egyptian Woman Among the Children of Israel
“It seemed that hell could appear day or night, at any time, at any place, simply in response to one's thoughts or wishes. It seemed that we could summon it at our pleasure and that instantly it would appear.”
Source: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
“It seemed that his spontaneous roaming was a well-planned learning expedition. I suspect that his rebellion and degeneracy were also premeditated. Apparently, they were a kind of intellectual rule, akin to a monastic rule, designed to lead to enlightenment. Unfortunately, his study curriculum also involved a significant degree of self-destruction as the fastest path to self-discovery.”
Source: Adieu, Rimbaud!
“It seemed that I could tell the whole story pretty powerfully in those 18 months between October of '62 and the spring of '64 when they were all at their peak. And yet you could see some of the shadows of Detroit's demise coming.”
“It seemed that I performed better sober than drunk. Who knew?”
“It seemed that if it weren't for bad luck, the NHL would have no luck at all. And yet they persevered.”
Source: The First Season: 1917-18 and the Birth of the NHL
“It seemed that, like most human capabilities, psychic abilities exist throughout the population in the form of a bell curve distribution; a few are gifted, and some have very little talent, while most of us are somewhere in the middle.
In effect, we are all, to some extent, natural psychics”
Source: Natural Remote Viewing: A practical guide to the mental martial art of self-discovery
“It seemed that mere children were in love with each other nowadays.”
Source: The Blythes Are Quoted
“It seemed that most women, because they had been caught, gave up on the movement and were just trying to pass the time until they could be released. Men in prison struggled to maintain their pride, including their manhood, because that is all they had left after everything had been taken away.”
“It seemed that our family had been on this land for thousands of years; that we had sprung from the earth, born of its flesh like a tree or a flower, deep-rooted, not by our feet, but by our hearts.”
Source: Not Even My Name
“It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined.”
“It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.”
“It seemed that somebody informing you it was time to stop loving them didn't mean you actually did.”
Source: Home Stretch
“It seemed that the good people were always cleaning up the messes.”
“It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.”
Source: 4 Books by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“it seemed that the pain of their physical illness at times was less than the misery of their poverty ridden existence, the unending wait in the queues and the feeling of hopelessness and abandonment by your own system was enough to rob them of their will power to fight any disease.”
Source: Seeking Redemption
“It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation from class-two (entropically selfish) evolution into class-one (syntropically cooperative) evolution, thereafter making all the right moves for all the right reasons.”
“it seemed that this scam slave complex would not be able to operate without crypto. And the benefits of crypto to the rest of the world seemed to be limited to enabling a zero-sum gambling mania.”
Source: Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
“It seemed that unbeknownst to her father, the lecherous bishop had chased Clio for the entire previous week and had foolishly cornered her on the staircase, where he stole a kiss and squeezed her small breasts. So when it came time to doctor him, she had smiled sweetly and stitched up his wound in the shape of three sixes, the sign of the devil.”
Source: Wonderful
“It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive.”
Source: Forever Amber
“It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.”
Source: The Lazarus Project
“It seemed that whether you felt something, or whether you felt nothing, it didn't matter: your responses were off either way.”
Source: About a Boy
“It seemed the more I knew about people the more I knew about the strange magic hidden in their hearts.”
Source: Bless Me, Ultima: A Novel
“It seemed the proverbial shit had hit the fan.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“It seemed the whole district of them was out, playing, flouncing, and at first glance they appeared mainly to resemble chandeliers with added lusciousness such as golden brocade and embossed wallpaper. By the time I did go out, all the streets were overrun with them: beribboned, besilked, bevelveted, behighheeled, bescratchy-petticoated and in pairs or else alone but pretending to be in pairs, waltzing and periodically crashing over. Meanwhile, the little boys, oblivious of the little girls, temporarily too, suspending operations against that army from "over there" - owing, probably, to the current absence of that army from "over there" - were taking turns at being good guy in their new play of the latest martyr killed recently in the political problems: Renouncer Hero Milkman, shadowed, set upon, then gunned down in their usual cowardly fashion by that murder squad spawned by a terrorist state.”
Source: Milkman
“It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones
slept better, [Cloquet thought,] while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking
hours much more.”
Source: Side Effects
“It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.”
“It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.”
Source: Angels & Demons: A Novel
“It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel
“It seemed time flies when you aren’t having fun.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax, with the results of the researches that were going on in semantics and pragmatics. I believe that this effort has proven to be a failure. Though Chomsky did indeed revolutionize the subject of linguistics, it is not at all clear, at the end the century, what the solid results of this revolution are. As far as I can tell there is not a single rule of syntax that all, or even most, competent linguists are prepared to agree is a rule.”
“It seemed to Alabama that, reaching her goal, she would drive the devils that had driven her - that, in proving herself, she would achieve that peace which she imagined went only in surety of one’s self - that she would be able, through the medium of the dance, to command her emotions, to summon love or pity or happiness at will, having provided a channel through which they might flow. She drove herself mercilessly, and the summer dragged on.”
“It seemed to be a fundamental thing that women have something men don't, the obvious being an ability to bear children, and the resilience to hang in as parents. I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of "women are inferior".”
“It seemed to be a law of society that hair must be parted and brushed.”
Source: The Awakening
“It seemed to be a makeshift replacement for love, absenting oneself from stifling atmospheres, because love basically was a torrential storm of feeling; it thrived only in partnership with laughing generosity and truthfulness.”
“It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky. Sometimes, if they were awake, they would hear him at a late hour pacing up and down the paths. Peaceful in his solitude, adoring, matching the tranquility of the heavens with the tranquility of his own heartbeat, ravished in the shadows by the visible and invisible splendours of God, he opened his spirit to the thoughts coming from the Unknown. At those moments, when he offered up his heart in the hour when the night flowers offer up their scent, himself illumined in the bestarred night and unfolding in ecstasy amid the universal radiance of creation, he could not perhaps have said what took place in his spirit, what went out from him and what entered in: a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.”
Source: Les Misérables
“It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.”
Source: Les Misérables
“It seemed to cast a spell on her as all her earlier despair disappeared and as she went back inside she was filled with hope.”
Source: The Ghost of Seagull Cottage: Inspired by The Ghost and Mrs Muir
“It seemed to Coraline that it was crouching, and staring down at her, as if it were not really a house but only the idea of a house—and the person who had had the idea, she was certain, was not a good person.”
Source: Coraline
“It seemed to echo away into the hidden spaces and honeycombs of the dark.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“It seemed to El like there were two kinds of loss. There was loss you might see coming, and maybe it did break your heart. But then there was loss so unexpected, so incomprehensible that the pain was the pain of your own brittle grasp on reality.”
Source: Man's Best Friend
“It seemed to Ellie that you could tell a lot about someone by the way they carried a secret—by how safe they kept it, how soon they told, the way they acted when they were trying to keep it from spilling out.”
Source: This Is What Happy Looks Like
“It seemed to Fire it was rarely enough one knew a person one wished to marry. How unjust then to meet that person, and be kept from it because one's bed was made of hay and not feathers.”
Source: Fire
“It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.”
“It seemed to her as if it had been an unpleasant day. She went over the actual events in her mind, and was astonished to find that, after all, the day had been like many hundreds before it and many, many more that were yet to come.”
Source: Vienna 1900: Games With Love And Death
“It seemed to her as though everything that was good and true had been blasted out of the world. All those things had been crushed destroyed made to disappear.”
“It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch.”
Source: Mrs. Miniver
“It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.”
Source: To the Lighthouse
“It seemed to her that living without control of your own will was hardly a step above not living at all.”
Source: Vitro
“It seemed to him a very Edinburgh thing. Welcoming, but not very.”