“Romney and Democratic rival President Obama have led their partisan backers down a trail of lies, negativity and vacuous policies that seem certain to guarantee an angry electorate four more years of gridlock.” YearsSeemsLyingCertainPresidentFourPolicyAngryDemocraticGuaranteesPresident ObamaNegativityTrailsRivalsRomneyPartisansElectorateGridlockVacuous Author:Ron Fournier
“Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in four dimensions? ...What if humanity- that collective noun we so often employ- really is, at a higher level, a singular noun? What it what we perceive in three dimensions as seven billion individual human beings are really all just aspects of one giant being?” IfsThinkingHumansSeemsMightHumanityThreeIndividualHuman BeingsLevelsFourObjectsHigherAspectLogicBiggerSevenBillionsCertaintyUncertaintyPerceiveGiantsReasoningDimensionsCollectivesWhat IfHigher LevelNounsOntologyDiscreteThree Dimensions Author:Robert J. Sawyer
“I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.” IfsWritingYearsLongEnoughSeemsFourThirdsFinishedOpera Author:Virgil Thomson
“After 10 years, I have been touring for 20, playing basically the same type of music, a four-piece or three-piece type of music with loud, crashing drums and screaming vocals. It gets to the point where you're looking for something new, and you don't want to do something that's way too left-field, for fear that it might seem contrived.” WayWantYearsHas BeensSeemsMightThreeLeftPiecesFourFieldsTypeLoudSomething NewVocalTouringLeft Field Author:Dave Grohl
“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; Shakespeare's plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to the grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in.” WritingHumansStillsPlaySeemsRememberSufferingHouseHuman BeingsFictionFourMiddleMaterialsCreaturesEdgesCornersInstanceAttachmentTornSpidersHookedMaterial ThingsSpunShakespeare's Plays Author:Virginia Woolf
“[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more in length and breadth than two acres of ground." This brings up again the old question: Are the classics doomed? Our ancestors believed that four years of this sort of information would inevitably produce a President, or at least a Cabinet Member. It didn't seem to work out that way.” WayYearsLongTwoSeemsPresidentFourInformationProduceMembersWork OutLengthBroadsFour YearsAncestorDoomedEldersWhalesCabinetsBreadthAcresFootnotesWhirlpools Author:Will Cuppy
“Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four.” ChildrenSeemsGovernmentFourInformationLike YouDrugTerroristAllowingScareApocalypseDealerDrug DealersHorsemenFour HorsemenFour Horsemen Of The Apocalypse Author:Bruce Schneier
“the miserable specimens who call themselves ' liberals ' are really conservatives: they're desperately even hysterically defending a welfare-warfare kleptocracy that is now at least four generations old, against growing numbers of us (unlike Republicans , who seem to become more ignorant with every passing year) who have actually managed to learn something from history and are struggling to dismantle said kleptocracy.” YearsSaidSeemsNumbersStruggleFourGrowingGenerationsRepublicanPassingIgnorantPassingsMiserableWelfareWarfareFour Generations Author:L. Neil Smith
“We got email today from an LGF reader who was browsing the Lexis research system and discovered that anti-American, anti-capitalist icon Noam Chomsky has embarrassingly capitalist tastes; among other expensive property he owns a 36,155 square foot home near Cambridge, a 13,503 square foot vacation home, and four boats. And we won't even mention the cars. Teaching kids to hate their own country seems to pay quite well.” WellsCountryHomeSeemsKidsTodayHatePayFourFeetTeachingCarReaderTasteResearchPropertyBoatExpensiveSquaresVacationCapitalistEmailIconsCambridgeAnti-americanTeaching KidsBrowsing Author:Charles Foster Johnson
“I take it as a matter not to be disputed, that if all knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. This seems proved by the quarrels and disputes caused by the disclosures which are occasionally made.” IfsWorldMadeSaidMatterSeemsFourGossipDisputesQuarrelsDisclosureFour Friends Author:Blaise Pascal
“I'd much rather win in three or four sets than go the distance all the time. I seem to put everyone through the wringer quite a bit.” SeemsThreeWinningBitsFourDistance Author:Lleyton Hewitt
“When you look back you talk about legends of the game, he's certainly up there. Twenty trophies since 1994. He just seems to get better and better. I've had the honour of playing alongside him. The four years I've played alongside him, he is the best player, one of the first names on the manager's teamsheet. He is just a complete legend. There are not enough players like Paul Scholes around any more for my liking. 'Legend' is over-used but this guy is right up there with the very best.” YearsFirstsLooksEnoughSeemsUsedGuyGamesNamesFourPlayerTwentiesManagersGet BetterHonourLegendsFour YearsThis GuyTrophiesBest PlayersScholesPaul Scholes Author:Dwight Yorke
“In a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is taken seems to be inexorable. So, you just get the job of being the front man for four or eight years. Now, most people realize that's what you are.” PeopleMenWayYearsMatterStatesSeemsJobsRealizingUnitedUnited StatesTakenFourFrontsEightCorporationsInexorable Author:Alice Walker
“The art of cursing people seems to have lost its tang since the old days when a good malediction took four deep breaths to deliverand sent the outfielders scurrying toward the fence to field.” PeopleArtSeemsLostFourFieldsBreathsFenceOld DaysDeep BreathCursingOutfieldersMalediction Book:My Ten Years in a Quandary Source: My Ten Years in a Quandary
“The schools, the courts, the media - all seem determined to erase Christian influence from public life and confine religion to the four walls of the church or home.” HomeSeemsSchoolChristianChurchReligiousFourInfluenceMediaWallCourtDeterminedErasePublic LifeFour Walls Author:Bruce L. Shelley
“The colicky baby who becomes calm, the quiet infant who throws temper tantrums at two, the wild child at four who becomes seriousand studious at six all seem to surprise their parents. It is difficult to let go of one's image of a child, say goodbye to the child a parent knows, and get accustomed to this slightly new child inhabiting the known child's body.” KnowsChildrenTwoBodySeemsParentDifficultKnownFourBabyQuietLetting GoSixSurpriseCalmGoodbyeTemperAccustomedInfantSaying GoodbyeTantrumsStudiousTemper TantrumsWild Child Author:Ellen Galinsky
“A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket, to be used instead of your mind to keep note of any errand or any appointment that you may have. The Standard Diary, less than four inches long and less than two and a half inches wide, is one of the best for this purpose. ...In fact, such diaries as these, in their wide range of information, would seem to be all that one needs in practical life, the only other book that at all approaches them in this respect being unquestionably Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.” NeedsMindMayLongTwoBookFactsSeemsUsedPurposeSimpleHalfFourInformationApproachStandardsNotesWidePracticalsRangePocketsDevicesInchesDiariesDictionaryAppointmentsErrandsPractical LifeMemorandum Author:Anna Brackett
“Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.” MenStillsTwoSeemsFourInvestingDrivenRepeatsSoar Book:Baruch: My own story Source: Baruch: My own story
“The computer field is intoxicated with change. We have seen galloping growth over a period of four decades and it still does not seem to be slowing down. The field is not mature yet and already it accounts for a significant percentage of the Gross National Product both directly and indirectly.” DoeStillsSeemsGrowthFourFieldsProductsPeriodsComputerAccountsDecadesSignificantMatureSlow DownGrossPercentagesSlowingIntoxicatedGalloping Author:Fernando J. Corbato
“If Jeff Mogil and Ron Melzack are right about genetics and pain, fifty years from now, generic Tylenol tablets will seem as quaint to us as a bottle of sarsaparilla tonic. Instead, we'll take our genotype ID bracely to the local genopharmacologist to order some bespoke pharmaceuticals. Or we may rise at four A.M. to meditate on the part of our nature that is painful and feel better for it. Along with social insurance, we'll carry geno-cards that list our predispositions: photosensitivity, osteoporosis, and poor response to codeine.” IfsFeelsYearsMaySeemsPainOrderSocialPoorFourResponsePainfulListsLocalsCardsTherapyFiftyInjuryBottlesFeel BetterGeneticsTabletsGenericQuaintOsteoporosisTylenolCodeine Author:Marni Jackson
“Loyalty is dead, the experts proclaim, and the statistics seem to bear them out. On average, U.S. corporations now lose half their customers in five years, half their employees in four, and half their investors in less than one. We seem to face a future in which the only business relationships will be opportunistic transactions between virtual strangers.” YearsSeemsFacesLosesHalfFiveFourBearsAverageStrangerCustomersLoyaltyCorporationsExpertsFive YearsEmployeeStatisticsInvestorsTransactionsBusiness Relationship Author:Fred Reichheld
“You don't actually find a strong correlation between- top-line GDP growth and making money in the market. It- it seems like you should. The fastest-growing countries should give you the highest return. They simply don't. But, there's only four of us- that- that believe that story. Everyone else in the world believes that if you grow fast like China, you'll outperform in the stock market.” IfsWorldGivingShouldBelieveCountryStoriesSeemsStrongGrowsGrowthLinesFourGrowingLike YouReturnHighestChinaMaking MoneyCorrelationGdp Author:Jeremy Grantham
“If you go on vacation for one week, you'll come back to two weeks of work. If you go on vacation for two weeks, you'll come back to four weeks of work. If you go on vacation for three weeks, people seem to figure it out for themselves.” PeopleIfsTwoSeemsThreeFourWeekFiguresGoes OnVacationTwo Weeks Author:Paul Orfalea
“The last image created in verse four of this hymn, ["Come, O Thou Glorious King"] that of the promised Messiah coming into his temple, seems appropriate for the day when Jesus was in the Jerusalem temple, teaching and establishing his authority. As with the Triumphal Entry, his actions then seem but a foretaste of even greater fulfillment when he comes again in glory. Just as the early Latter-day Saints were reassured by the promised return of the Savior, so we too can look forward with faith to his return as King.” LooksSeemsActionLastsJesusGreaterFourTeachingReturnKingsAuthorityGlorySaintFulfillmentGloriousAppropriateLatterTemplesSaviorVersesEntryMessiahJerusalemHymnsLatter DaysLatter Day Saints Author:Eric D. Huntsman
“The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not seem strenuous if you really enjoy doing these things and have an aptitude for them.” IfsWritingSeemsReadingEnjoyHoursFourSixProgramAptitudeReading And Writing Book:On Writing Source: On Writing
“Films, like memories, seem to re-shoot themselves over the years, reflecting our latest needs and obsessions. In many cases they can change completely, and reveal unexpected depths and shallows. Will Four Weddings and a Funeral be seen one day as a vicious social satire? Could Jaws become as tearful and sentimental as Bambi?” NeedsYearsSeemsFilmSocialMemoriesCasesFourOne DayDepthObsessionUnexpectedSatireFuneralSentimentalViciousReflectingOur Wedding Author:J. G. Ballard
“According to statistics, one person out of five is disturbed. If there are four people around you who seem normal, that's not good.” PeopleIfsPersonsSeemsFiveFourNormalStatisticsDisturbed Author:Jean-Claude Van Damme
“I am a serial monogamist of sorts, and have been with my girlfriend for almost four years. In imagining my brain back to worlds where I might be around someone other sexed in that way and not know them that well, speaking out loud almost seems like requiring of demon language, or money spurting.” KnowsWorldWayYearsWellsHas BeensSeemsMightLanguageBrainFourLoudGirlfriendDemonFour YearsMy GirlfriendSerialsSpeaking Out Author:Blake Butler