I Quotes
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“It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.”
“It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.”
“It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.”
“It seems we all agree that training the body through exercise, diet, and relaxation is a good idea, but why don't we think about training our mind?”
Source: Turning the Mind Into an Ally
“It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!”
“It seems we are all too vulnerable to having our heart lead us astray from what is right”
Source: Impulse and Initiative
“It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.”
“It seems we are often guilty of being more interested in defending God's Word than in studying it.”
Source: Twelve Dynamic Bible Study Methods
“It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now.”
“It seems we have come to a time that when many are presented with objective truth and substantiated facts regarding anything that offends them or makes them uncomfortable;
they find it easier to deny, ignore or disregard what is true for what they want or need the truth to be.”
“It seems we hold court in the woods tonight,” said Lord Brandoch Daha. “It is very pleasant. Yet hold thee ready with me to put some firebrands amongst ’em if need befall. ’Tis likely some of these great beasts are little schooled in court ceremonies.”
Source: The worm Ouroboros
“It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please.”
Source: While I Was Gone: rejacketed
“It seems we will be waiting a really long time before we see transparency in government.”
“It seems we're always in transition and that it's more about trends than it is about what's meaningful.”
“It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.”
“It seems when the madness sets in the mix of wealth and seductiveness, it's never the first generation that acquired the wealth; they had to be quite savvy. That savvy-ness probably meant you were some sort of alpha person. That alpha stuff in the later generations, you still have the intelligence, but it tends to manifest itself in bipolar disorders and inestimable amounts of depression.”
“It seems whenever I've had a method or what I perceived to be an intellectual groundwork of some sort - a kind of game plan - it's always been the most morbid failure.”
“It seems whenever the government doesn’t want anyone to know something, it is all of a sudden critical to national security.”
Source: The Spy Files
“It seems whenever we have a little adversity, the emotions drop. We've fallen out of the race, and it kind of takes the wind out of your sails.”
“It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work.”
“It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.”
“It seems with every match I win, I get better-looking to other people.”
“It seems with every new day, we have a new veto threat from the president.”
“It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure.”
“It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.”
Source: The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...
“It seems women are expected to be so much more than men, which means we have to work that much harder. We're the ones under the microscope. We're expected to sound perfect. We're expected to look perfect all the time. We're expected to be style-setters, whereas the boys roll onto the stage in their jeans, T-shirts and baseball caps.”
“It seems you are confused,” she whispered against his skin, fingers itching to trace the
claw marks etched so deeply into his chest. “You don’t own me. I can wear whatever I want,
even if that’s nothing.” This time she did place a hand on his chest and they both flinched at the
sudden shock.”
Source: Quietus
“It seems you don't approve of the family business Katerina. Or of me. But these chances you take... These things you do... This is a dangerous life to live... alone.”
Source: Uncommon Criminals
“It seems you haven't really become a success until you have as many people as possible condemning you.”
“It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.”
Source: Humboldt's Gift
“It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.”
Source: The Possessed: Dostoevsky's Collections
“It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth.”
Source: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
“It seems, in theory, that I should be able to control at least a few of my bad habits. The problem is that my habits make me depressed, and the depression makes me want to indulge my habits and so I do. There isn't any solution to this.”
“It seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough.”
Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
“It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims.”
“It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable-he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.”
“It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.”
Source: Quinctilian's Institutes of Eloquence: Or, The Art of Speaking in Public, in Every Character and Capacity
“It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.”
Source: Don Quixote
“It seldom happens, however, that a great proprietor is a great improver.”
Source: The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master
“It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.”
Source: Alone
“It seldom seems to strike the ultra-Darwinists that theology might have its own richness and subtleties, and might strange thought actually tell us things about the world that are not only to our real advantage, but will never be revealed by science.”
Source: Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe
“It sends out a very clear message: "Mess with us and we'll do something worse than kill you. We'll kill your children.”
“It sends the signal that you can kill and walk away and not face the kind of justice that you ought to pay for those kinds of acts.”
“It seriously irks me when people mistake Ron Paul for a libertarian. The man is as much a libertarian as Barack Obama is a liberal.”
“It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.”
Source: You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker
“It serves no purpose to man if there is no room for repentance, and he who is tormented can never grow better...let this punishment be severe, let it be bitter, nay let it be lasting, but let it at length have an end.”
“It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.”
“It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.”
Source: Peter Greenaway: Interviews
“It serves to keep the records straight, and is a convenience to the public to whom one wants to do the square thing - affording as it does a bird's eye view of the position of affairs to those of his readers who, through no fault of their own, are not birds.”
“It sets one dreaming—to interchange thoughts with beings whose thinking had an organic background wholly different from ours (other senses, other appetites), to be unenviously humbled by intellects possibly superior to our own yet able for that very reason to descend to our level, to descend lovingly ourselves if we met innocent and childlike creatures who could never be as strong or as clever as we, to exchange with the inhabitants of other worlds that especially keen and rich affection which exists between unlikes; it is a glorious dream.
But make no mistake. It is a dream. We are fallen. We know what our race does to strangers. Man destroys or enslaves every species he can. Civilized man murders, enslaves, cheats, and corrupts savage man. Even inanimate nature he turns into dust bowls and slag-heaps. There are individuals who don’t. But they are not the sort who are likely to be our pioneers in space.
Our ambassador to new worlds will be the needy and greedy adventurer or the ruthless technical expert. They will do as their kind has always done. What that will be if they meet things weaker than themselves, the black man and the red man can tell. If they meet things stronger, they will be, very properly, destroyed.”
Source: The World's Last Night: And Other Essays