I Quotes
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“It seems my heart is made of tissue paper; I wish the world would handle it more delicately.”
Source: A Heart Made of Tissue Paper
“It seems my reindeer has followed a very dangerous man”
“It seems never to be about what we would wish to do in life. But it is what we must do to survive.”
Source: WHAT LIFE IS ALL ABOUT?
“It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.”
“It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.”
“It seems nobody really talks about what we do with our emotional pain. Only the ascendant perhaps, who have learned how to fully meditate or do yoga or whatever through their emotional pain.”
“It seems nostalgia runs rampant among many Euro-Americans: a nostalgia for the days of unchallenged White Supremacy-both moral and material-when life was "simple.”
Source: De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century
“It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.”
Source: Lives of the Poets
“It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.”
“It seems not to matter that we are at the brink of a war that may spread beyond Afghanistan and Iraq to Iran and Georgia and then where? To Syria? To North Korea? To China? That we in America are in economic doldrums and are seeing small businesses fold and houses reclaimed by banks and a smouldering panic that is palpable everywhere.”
“It seems nothing can counteract the proliferation of this Artificial Intelligence based on the zero degree of thought.
Nothing, that is, except this reversibility of intelligence and stupidity - the latter representing a renewed challenge to victorious intelligence.
There is something here too like a revenge of evil.
Something to which the tyranny of reality leads equally well - to appreciating any old form of madness and illusion.”
Source: The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact
“It seems now clear that a belief in the functional importance of all enzymes found in bacteria is possible only to those richly endowed with Faith.”
“It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate.”
Source: The challenges of change
“It seems now that the place where you see
the most obvious censorship is on college campuses --
the precise place where you would expect to see the least.”
“It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a much more attenuated landscape of media than ours, and their reward was that they could still believe, in good faith and without bombast, that art could morally influence the world. Today, the idea has largely been dismissed, as it must in a mass media society where art's principal social role is to be investment capital, or, in the simplest way, bullion. We still have political art, but we have no effective political art. An artist must be famous to be heard, but as he acquires fame, so his work accumulates 'value' and becomes, ipso-facto, harmless. As far as today's politics is concerned, most art aspires to the condition of Muzak. It provides the background hum for power.”
Source: The Shock of the New
“It seems obvious now: the child who spends school days in a fog of semi-comprehension has no way to know her problem is not that she is slow-witted.”
Source: My Beloved World
“It seems obvious that colors vary according to lights, because when any color is placed in the shade, it appears to be different from the same color which is located in light. Shade makes color dark, whereas light makes color bright where it strikes.”
“It seems obvious that there comes period in your life when you have to learn to say no to things you don't want to do. But the biggest trickiest lesson in holding on the stalwart committment to your creativity is learning how to say no to the things you do want to do.”
“It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.”
“It seems odd that as far as I know nobody has yet been murdered for having too perfect a character! And yet perfection is undoubtedly an irritating thing!”
Source: Murder in Mesopotamia
“It seems odd that we continue to worry about the reputations of men who are accused of sexual wrong-doings.”
“It seems odd, but people who see my films normally take them in in a deeper way than you would actually watch a film, let's say The Terminator or whatever.”
“It seems odd, that certain men who talk so much of what the Holy Spirit reveals to themselves, should think so little of what he has revealed to others.”
Source: Charles Spurgeon: Lectures to My Students, Volume 4
“It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office”
“It seems only yesterday I used to believe
there was nothing under my skin but light.
If you cut me I could shine.
But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life,
I skin my knees. I bleed.”
Source: Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
“It seems only yesterday I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I could shine.”
Source: The art of drowning
“It seems other rap artists are trying to follow a "tradition", or something... I don't consider us [Migos] as weirdos, we just went the other way and didn't follow the rap tradition. We just killed it and made it our tradition.”
“It seems paradoxical that an organization responsible for enforcing the law would frequently rely on illegal practices. The police resolve this tension between nominally lawful ends and illegal means by substituting their own occupational and organizational norms for the legal duties assigned to them. Westley suggests: This process then results in a transfer in property from the state to the colleague group. The means of violence which were originally a property of the state, in loan to its law-enforcement agent, the police, are in a psychological sense confiscated by the police, to be conceived of as a personal property to be used at their discretion. From the officers’ perspective, the center of authority is shifted and the relationship between the state and its agents is reversed. The police become a law unto themselves.”
Source: Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America
“It seems particularly ironic that a church that at one stage, a long time ago, fought to redefine marriage should now be so opposed to these attempts to redefine marriage.”
“It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did.”
“It seems people don't read or listen. Our scholars and our media have been very outspoken. We were the first country in the world to hold a national public awareness campaign against extremism and terrorism. Why would we not want to fight an ideology whose objective is to kill us?”
“It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.”
“It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists much prejudice against attempts to introduce the methods and language of mathematics into any branch of the moral sciences. Most persons appear to hold that the physical sciences form the proper sphere of mathematical method, and that the moral sciences demand some other method-I know not what.”
Source: The Theory of Political Economy
“It seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan ...[Showing the misery of Afghanistan ran the risk of] promoting enemy propaganda...we must talk about how the Taliban are using civilian shields and how the Taliban have harboured the terrorists responsible for killing close up to 5,000 innocent people.”
“It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, "Who are we?"”
“It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest.”
Source: Tom Stoppard in Conversation
“It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.”
Source: On photography
“It seems possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.”
“It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.”
“It seems President Trump is just another secret thief! If it is good for the President of the USA, it's good for everyone else. It’s time to release all of the convicted USA secret thieves!”
“It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own healthy inheritance of original sin comes out in the book and I enjoyed raping and ripping by proxy. It is the novelist’s innate cowardice that makes him depute to imaginary personalities the sins that he is too cautious to commit for himself.”
“It seems probable that humans have been on the planet, with much the same brain, for about 250,000 years.”
“It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.”
“It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which He formed them; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces; no ordinary power being able to divide what God had made one in the first creation.”
Source: Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World
“It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.”
Source: Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress
“It seems prudent to evaluate your choice of home every so often.”
Source: It Happened Like This: A Life in Alaska
“It seems quite impossible to walk in America.”
Source: The First Four Minutes
“It seems quite pointless to waste health relentlessly in order to earn money that we shall spend on recovering health.”
“It seems quite proper to fear achievement, which, after all, is proof that you've successfully moved an experience from the delightfully anticipated future into the forever and sadly lost past. Avoid as long as you can the ultimate indignity: a lifetime achievement award.”
“It seems quite the trick to tell the friendly snakes from the other ones.'
'Ah,' Oak says. 'They're all friendly snakes until they bite you.”
Source: The Prisoner’s Throne