I Quotes
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“It seems the attributes our hypocrisy induces others to adduce to us would bring no value addition to our own conscience.”
Source: Benign Flame: Saga of Love
“It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is able to retire at twenty-two.”
“It seems the best approach for any venture is a combo platter - Japan's quality-consciousness paired with America's willingness to experiment and (sometimes) fail.”
“It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.”
“It seems the brighter you are, the deeper the hole you get into.”
“It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions... in refusing and accepting, changing and revising.”
“It seems the government was marketing Coronavirus as the Flu for decades!”
“It seems the guys who are best at sex approach it with the serenity of a Buddhist monk. They are never going to beg for it and when the time is right (and all signs point to yes), then they take charge masterfully and completely.”
Source: Real Secrets of Sex: A Women's Guide on How to Be Good in Bed
“It seems the height of antiquated hubris to claim that the universe carried on as it did for billions of years in order to form a comfortable abode for us. Chance and historical contingency give the world of life most of its glory and fascination. I sit here happy to be alive and sure that some reason must exist for "why me?" Or the earth might have been totally covered with water, and an octopus might now be telling its children why the eight-legged God of all things had made such a perfect world for cephalopods.”
Source: An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas
“It seems The Journal of Neurology reports that the longer you smoke, the less likely you are to develop Parkinson's disease. So what are they telling us? Follow me guys. Remember, a couple of months ago, doctors said drinking a glass of alcohol every day was good for your heart. Smoking prevents Parkinson's disease. Marijuana is good for glaucoma. Sex is good for your prostate. You know, screw health care. Let's party!”
“It seems the less I do and say, the better everyone likes my work!”
“It seems the medical profession gave Long COVID the name of Chronic Fatigue and feigned not knowing what caused it for decades, even though Coronavirus was discovered in the 1960’s!”
“It seems the medical profession neglected to inform President Trump not to engage in social media activities or make important decisions while infected with a nasty virus and under the influence of potent prescription drugs.”
“It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.”
Source: Hattie Big Sky
“It seems the more I think about not sinning, the more I sin, but the more I think about just loving Jesus, the less I seem to sin. Falling in love seems to be the key.”
“It seems the more I try to connect with the world, I am feeling more alone than I ever have felt before”
“It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.”
Source: The Centralia case: three views of the Armistice Day tragedy at Centralia, Washington, Novemeber 11, 1919: The Centralia conspiracy
“It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.”
Source: Writings, 1902-1910
“It seems the older we get, the tighter our inner circle becomes. When life has you down, some of those you thought had your back run, others...sometimes strangers surprise you and fill that empty space up. Oh, but life has a great balancing act and when that axle turns and you are right side up again...you will definitely not be looking for any long, lost "friends" because your inner circle is battle-tested to win!”
“It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.”
“It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one is producing a complete disaster.”
“It seems the only way we can avoid being the victims of change is to reconcile with the inevitable. We must never stand on the rail tracks of positive change.”
“It seems the recipe for human life is:
3 lbs. of crumpled flesh generating too much electricity to handle,
Atop bodies that aren't ever as touched as much as we please,
Powered by hearts that end up magnetizing to the wrong people,
Accompanied by souls that talk to other souls up until disease.”
Source: Can I Tell You Something?
“It seems the USA loses most wars it gets involved in.”
“It seems the war in Ukraine may be in the process of making the next nuclear power plant disaster.”
“It seems the whole works of humankind are backwards. Most are trying to convince, instruct, and purify everyone else - without first purifying themselves. To enlighten others we have to enlighten ourselves.”
Source: The Sunfood Diet Success System
“It seems then that it is not the excellence of any two things (or more) in themselves, but those two things as viewed by the light of each other, that makes beauty.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)
“It seems then, say I, that you leave politics entirely out of the question, and never suppose, that a wise magistrate can justly be jealous of certain tenets of philosophy, such as those of Epicurus, which, denying a divine existence, and consequently a providence and a future state, seem to loosen, in a great measure, the ties of morality, and may be supposed, for that reason, pernicious to the peace of civil society.”
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition
“It seems there are no rich on death row.”
“It seems there are some problems even Prosecco and cake can't make better.”
Source: Chalet Girls: A funny, feel good romance!
“It seems there is no shortage of regret among the young -- but then, they are young, they make mistakes. They have time to correct them and the courage to admit their failings aloud.”
Source: Egg & Spoon
“It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.”
“It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame.”
“It seems, therefore, that even somewhat halting and imperfect steps towards the goal of more productive- and enormously more profitable- fishing cannot but be beneficial
almost immediately. But any kind of regulation, however simple or limited, must inevitably involve the sacrifice, at some level, of part of the competitive element which characterises fishing as a means of utilising a natural resource, and its replacement by a measure of cooperation. In the early stages of regulation the obligation will fall primarily on the larger units within the fishing industries, and especially on the industries of each nation in their attitude towards one another's activities. Eventually, if regulation is to become perfected so that the maximum benefits are obtained, the greater will be the demand on the fisherman himself to bring about some modification of his individualistic and competitive approach to his problem of making a livelihood.”
Source: On the Dynamics of Exploited Fish Populations
“It seems they’re reporting little news and plenty of gossip these days.”
Source: The Crown
“It seems thus possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.”
Source: The Practice of Everyday Life
“It seems ti me that the're a whein o guid grunds for owresettin the Shakespeare play intil Scots. For ae thing, the action is set maistlie in Scotland an the dramatis personae is maistlie Scots. For aw, it haes becom an English stage tradeition ti knap the plays o Shakespeare in a clippit ferr back Inglish accent, an whan this is duin wi Macbeth, it is ill ti credit that the action haes oniething to dae wi Scotland at aw. For another thing, Shakespeare's play is nou that weill-kent that monie skreids in it ir nou clichés - wurds that war aince fou o virr haes becum sachless owre the hunders o year sen they war written.”
Source: Scots Glasnost VII: April 1993
“It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision.”
Source: Of Men and Galaxies
“It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.”
“It seems to be a general belief that the will of God is to make things distasteful for us, like taking bad-tasting medicine when we are sick, or going to the dentist. Somebody needs to tell us that the sunrise is also God's will. There is the time of harvest, the harvest which will provide food and clothes for us, without which life could not be sustained on earth. God ordered the seasons-they are his will. In fact, the good things in life far outweigh the bad. There are more sunrises than cyclones.”
“It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest themselves in the commonplace.”
“It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.”
“It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspicious
of swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountain
climbers.”
Source: Life of Pi
“It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.”
Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm
“It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.”
“It seems to be a natural consequence of our points of view to assume that the whole of space is filled with electrons and flying electric ions of all kinds.”
Source: The Norwegian Aurora Polaris Expedition 1902-1903
“It seems to be a rule of life that the less qualified you are to give counsel, the more counsel you give.”
“It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone.”
Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition
“It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.”
Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition
“It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program - on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off - than on any positive task.”