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“It seems everyone's so worried about getting hurt that they forget about letting love happen.”
“It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.”
“It seems evident that everything which exists in nature, is natural, no matter how simple or complicated a phenomenon it is; and on no occasion can the so-called 'supernatural' be anything else than a completely natural law, though it may, at the moment, be above and beyond the present understanding.”
“It seems evident that the basis for civil safety is homogeneity. A culture which is socially uniform is pretty well devoid of informal violence.”
“It seems evident that the more profound, helpful, and meaningful way to protect people is to dismantle the morality code, and grant people the freedom to openly organize without legal risks - rather than attempting to legally regulate everything, which will always enact social exclusions at some level.”
“It seems far simpler to go ahead and say that the epic is a fantastic myth, that happens to be true of the material Universe, that other myths are true in terms of their cultural meaning, and that there's absolutely no problem with holding more than one story, just as there's no problem with viewing the sunset in terms of planetary rotation and spectra and nuclear fusions one moment and as visual splendor the next.”
“It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks.”
“It seems farther away now because there are no rockets getting there. Nobody is going.”
“It seems feasible that over the coming century human nature will be scientifically remodelled. If so, it will be done haphazardly, as an upshot of struggles in the murky realm where big business, organised crime, and the hidden parts of government vie for control. If the human species is re-engineered it will not be the result of humanity assuming a godlike control of its destiny. It will be another twist in man's fate.”
Source: Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
“It seems fitting, however, that the single Western film which most unambiguously endorses the agrarian ideal, The Covered Wagon, should contain one of the cinema screen's most graphic attacks on Industrialism. The film's intertitles inform viewers that one of the most formidable hazards facing the character of Wingate (Charles Stanton Ogle), the leader of the wagon train, is greed arising from the California gold strike of 1849. Several pioneers opt to dig gold in California rather than plow land in Oregon. In a visual composition symbollically resonant with the importance and irrevocability of that choice, the wagon train divides, one part going north and the other south, while visible in the foreground lie the discarded plows of those who have foresaken the agrarian ideal. These shots from a silent Western summarise a major split in the American psyche.”
Source: Cinema, Culture, Scotland: Selected Essays
“It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill, based in large measure on a healthy mistrust of the state.”
“It seems freedom comes to you when you dance, and I have to wonder what it is that makes you feel caged.”
Source: The Stars Are Dying
“It seems from my unique vantage point as both scientist and editor of JSE that substantial evidence exists of "something going on".”
“It seems from Pope Francis, immigrants, anybody who doesn't live here in America, has an automatic right to come here just because there's no other place like it on earth. And what is never discussed is how it got so special. How did it happen? Why is it so prosperous? Why is it so free?”
“It seems hard for the American people to believe that anything could be more exciting than the times themselves. What we read daily and view on the TV has thrust imagined forms into the shadow. We are staggeringly rich in facts, in things, and perhaps, like the nouveau riche of other ages, we want our wealth faithfully reproduced by the artist.”
Source: It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future
“It seems hard to remain a bachelor...to model your appearance and behaviour on one or two bachelors remembered from your youth.
That is how it will be, only that in reality it will be you yourself standing there, today and later, with a body and a real head, and so with a brow too, to strike with your hand.”
Source: Metamorphosis and Other Stories
“It seems hardly fair to quarrel with a place because its staple commodity is not pretty, but I am sure I should have liked Cincinnati much better if the people had not dealt so very largely in hogs.”
Source: Domestic Manners of the Americans
“It seems he cannot get near me, with my deep well of sadness, with my myopic awareness of the pain of the past and the severity of our family's dysfunction, without drinking from the well himself. Ten years later and my father's caught up with me With my eyes holding steady the reflection of all that happened, he looks into them and cannot deny the pain. The gift of burden I carry as the family truth teller is a token he willingly takes from me now. Where once I saw his tears as coins to cleanse me, too much time has passed for me to have remained in that purgatory. Our family's poison held as a ruby in my throat for so long now, I see him cry, but it's me who is under glass. No longer with a child's heart, his tears fall on barren soul.”
Source: My Father's Keeper
“It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.”
“It seems, however, that humans can’t free themselves of choices and decisions, no matter where they go. Life doesn’t go on if you don’t choose one thing or another.”
Source: No One Writes Back
“It seems human beings have a great inability to see their own Godhood except when pronouncing judgment on others.”
Source: The Angel's Guide to Taking Human Form
“It seems I have a hard time being attracted to someone unless I respect what they do on some level. Otherwise, I would feel disdain for them. Which is not always pleasant in a relationship. Sometimes it's fun though.”
“It seems I have a singular taste for woman who threaten me.”
Source: The Wicked King
“It seems I have a singular taste for women who threaten me.”
Source: The Wicked King
“It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.”
Source: The Bukowski Purdy letters: a decade of dialogue, 1964-1974
“it seems I must love even you
easier loving the pretty things
the children the morning glories
easier (as compassion grows)
to love the stranger
easy even to realize (with compassion)
the pain and terror implicit in those
who treat the world around them
with such brutality such hate
but oh I am no christ
blessing my executioners
I am no buddha no saint
nor have I that incandescent strength
of faith illuminated
yet even so
you are a sentient being
breathing this air
even as I am a sentient being
breathing this air
seeking my own enlightenment
I must seek yours
if I had love enough
if I had faith enough
perhaps I could transcend your path
and alter even that
forgive me, then―
I cannot love you yet”
Source: Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel
“It seems I must walk a fine line between good and evil, a third path? It must be something spiritual I refuse to comprehend. But if life is pushing me in this direction, then it will lead me to where he is at.”
Source: Sensiti
“It seems,” I said to my ex-fiancé in as calm a tone as I could muster, “you may have a chance to discuss non-human methods of weather prediction after all...because I’m reasonably certain that we are standing on a troll.”
Source: Snowspelled
“It seems idle to rail at ambition merely because it is a boundless passion; or rather is not this circumstance an argument in its favor? If one would be employed or amused through life, should we not make choice of a passion that will keep one long in play?”
Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“It seems important that the social value factor be more generally recognized as a powerful causal agent in its own right and something to be dealt with directly as such. No more critical task can be projected for the 1970s than that of seeking for civilized society a new, elevated set of value guidelines more suited to man's expanded numbers and new powers over nature, a frame of reference for value priorities that will act to secure and conserve our world instead of destroying it.”
“It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.”
“It seems impossible, but Stryker's so popular. Millions of people believe his every word.
To think us evil, simply because we exist? It is madness.”
Source: X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills
“It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.”
Source: Light in August
“It seems impossible that you can love one person so much, no matter what happens, no matter what they do.”
“It seems impossible to find one man hiding in a city populated by more than a million people.”
“Nearly two million,” Westcliff said. “However, I have no doubt that he will be found. We have resources and the will to accomplish it.”
Despite her concern, Evie could not prevent a smile as she reflected that he sounded very much like Lillian, who never accepted defeat. Seeing that Westcliff’s brows had quirked slightly at the sight of her smile, she explained, “I was just thinking what a perfect match you are for a strong-willed woman like Lillian.”
The mention of his adored wife brought a glow to the earl’s eyes. “I would say she is no more determined or strong-willed than you,” he replied, and added with a swift grin, “She merely happens to be noisier about it.”
Source: Devil in Winter
“It seems impossible to live without hurting people.'
'That's because it is.'
'So why live at all?'
'Well, in fairness, dying hurts people too.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“It seems impossible to wheedle his way out of his impending death. No one has before him. But just as a young person feels invincible, he cannot bring himself to accept the looming train as he stands upon the tracks feeling the deep rumbling of the behemoth barreling straight toward him.”
Source: Aulay
“It seems impossible, in fact, to judge the eye using any word other than seductive, since nothing is more attractive in the bodies of animals and men. But extreme seductiveness is probably at the boundary of horror.”
Source: Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939
“It seems improbable, unless one knows how obstinately, purposefully and unerringly any stricken animal will find its way to the same place where in the past it has endured suffering and recovered.”
Source: Faithful Ruslan
“It seems in a universe so large, one shouldn’t have to live somewhere inhospitable. It seems like it would be easy to find a place to live in peace.”
“It does seem like it should be that way, doesn’t it?”
Source: The Butcher's Masquerade
“It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For this reason, the evolution of language is widely judged to be the culminating event in the emergence of humanity as we know it today.”
“It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount of, say, six degrees warming, but it's likely that we'll get two to three degrees warming and that will be serious enough.”
“It seems increasingly dogs are attacking humans in response to their slavery... AND, wildlife in captivity are also attacking their enslavers AND the public... Their messages are loud and clear: LET US OUT AND LEAVE US ALONE!!!”
“It seems incredible that the trustees of typically American fortune-created foundations should have permitted them to be used to finance ideas and practices incompatible with the fundamental concepts of our Constitution. Yet there seems evidence that this may have occurred.”
Source: A report from Norman Dodd, director of research, covering his direction of the staff of the Special Committee of the House of Representatives to Investigate Tax Exempt Foundations for the six months' period, November 1, 1953-April 30, 1954
“It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.”
“It seems inevitable that you'd end up getting someone like Trump telling us all how important and amazing he is.”
“It seems insane-so violent and loud. It's audacious that you would even think such a thing.”
“It seems interesting and annoying at the same Time that provocative People are almost always capable of whitewashing themselves (temporarily) through Excuses... They don't escape Self-Betrayal.”
“It seems ironic that while they continue their pleas for privacy, Prince Harry ‘breaches’ Royal Family’s privacy in his Bombshell memoir. That can undermine his own future right to privacy.”
“It seems it doesn't pay to be good anymore, when people are short-changing you for evil.”