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“It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day. Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful 'in general.' It's very strange. It's a little like being married in general.”

Source: Beyond Doubt: Faith-Building Devotions on Questions Christians Ask

“In most of our dreams, our inner eye of reflection is shut and we sleep within our sleep. The exception takes place when we seem to awake within our dreams, without disturbing or ending the dream state, and learn to recognize that we are dreaming while the dream is still happening.”

Stills States Dream Seems Eye Sleep Happenings Reflection Awake Exception Our Dreams Disturbing

Author:Stephen LaBerge

“We can sit around and go, okay, is there really a plan, does somebody really know what's happening, is it all planned out, because sometimes it just seems too remarkable to me the things that have happened to me.”

Knows Doe Sometimes Seems Plans Happened Happenings Okay Remarkable

Author:Andie MacDowell

“It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.”

Source: The Psychology of Romantic Love: Romantic Love in an Anti-Romantic Age

“I just think the idea of moving away from the body and discovering sensuality by skimming the body, not tightening the body, seems rather new to me. Especially in this world where we're living right now, where the idea of giving freedom to women, especially in politics what's happening, it seemed so appealing to me, so that was the starting point.”

Thinking World Giving Ideas Body Seems Moving This World Right Now Happenings Starting Sensuality Discovering Starting Point Moving Away Living Right Skimming Living Right Now

Author:Prabal Gurung

“I love stories where the impossible appears believable, plausible and real. Maybe it's silly, but it's one of the reasons Michael Crichton's writing always appealed to me: he took outlandish ideas and made them seem completely within the realm of possibility. I remember reading "Jurassic Park" and feeling like: "Oh, yeah - no, that's totally happening right now. They're bringing back dinosaurs!"”

“Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else, but when it happens to you, why it seems to lose some of its Humor, and if it keeps on happening, why the entire laughter kinder Fades out of it.”

Ifs Long Seems Happens Loses Laughter Happenings Fades Kinder

Book:The Writings of Will Rogers

Source: The Writings of Will Rogers

“Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular. Not only has none of us ever experienced more than one consciousness, but there is also no trace of circumstantial evidence of this ever happening anywhere in the world. If I say that there cannot be more than one consciousness in the same mind, this seems a blunt tautology - we are quite unable to imagine the contrary...”

Ifs World Mind Seems Consciousness Imagine Happenings Evidence Contrary Blunt Tautology Circumstantial Evidence

Author:Erwin Schrodinger

“The "problem" is that Comic-Con is so damned successful. People who are there seem to have a wonderful time. The very size of it makes it exciting. Wherever you look, there's something exciting. The attendees are always looking around for a familiar face. It's either 'There's a movie star!' Or, 'There's a TV star!' Or, 'There's the guy who drew the Green Lantern!' It means so much to the fans. It makes them feel like they're where it's happening. It's like Woodstock.”

“Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen of the Kalahari Desert. Except for the garments, their deep religious trances might just as well be happening at a revival meeting or in the congregation of a fundamentalist TV preacher.... As we move further from the life of ignorance and superstition in which religion has its roots, we seem to need it more and more.... Why has religion become a force just when we'd have thought it would be losing ground to secularism?”

“To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final 'second' - the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete - is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you're made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what's happening.”

Source: I Have Changed

“I don't think it is always necessary to take up the anti-colonial -- or is it post-colonial? -- cudgels against English. What seems to me to be happening is that those people who were once colonized by the language are now rapidly remaking it, domesticating it, becoming more and more relaxed about the way they use it -- assisted by the English language's enormous flexibility and size, they are carving out large territories for themselves within its frontiers.”

People Thinking Way Use Seems Language Becoming Happenings Size Enormous Posts Territory Relaxed Flexibility English Language Frontiers Becoming More Carving

Author:Salman Rushdie

“People who praise illness as bringing out the best in people ought to have their heads examined. Pain forces you to think about yourself, directs your interest to your own body and what is happening to it. You don't reach out benevolently, filled with good will for others. You don't seem to care enough. Pain makes you a little person, not a big one, and not a nice one, except perhaps in the case of saints, and I've never known one.”

Source: Put out the light

“What is happening to the daughters of the yam? Seem like they just don't know how to draw up the powers from the deep like before. Not full sunned and sweet anymore.”

Knows Seems Know How Sweet Draws Happenings Daughter Yams

Author:Toni Cade Bambara

“If it is true that it is the simplicity of the Einsteinian formulae which constitutes their difficulty, that they are so obvious as to escape notice, it seems to me that this applies to events in life, numberless happenings, perhaps the basic ones, which we, saturated in detail and hurrying through subdivisions, lose sight of.”

Ifs Seems Loses Events Happenings Sight Difficulty Simplicity Details Obvious Hurrying Saturated Events In Life

Author:Mary Butts

“Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the more atrocious things. By going really far afield into a completely fake world, maybe there's a chance to make things resonant somehow - or in this case, truly terrifying. To make it as bad as the real stuff that's happening.”

Thinking World Trying Wells Real Enough Seems Stuff Chance Cases Happenings Moved Fake Real Stuff Fake World

Author:Jenny Holzer

“People would always say horror movies always thrive during times of war; that's just what people would say. And I don't know if they thrived during World War II or Vietnam, but I thought that's kind of strange, why would that happen. I don't know if people rearrange their priorities; in good times, they freak out and start pointing the fingers at video games and TV, but when horrible things are happening in the world, a horror movie just seems a little ridiculous.”

“I've learned over the years that geography is not that important, except that I seem to work better in the country than the city. I get more done. There's just less happening around me, and I have more time and concentration to work on music.”

Years Important Country Done Seems Cities Happenings I've Learned Concentration More Time Geography

Author:Steve Reich

“When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come to me are through a female voice in my head. My stories seem to naturally be about females.”

Stories Seems Voice Growing Up Growing Mom Happenings Female My Mom Voices In My Head Female Voice

Author:Natalie Portman

“I think we are becoming more and more linked, and before long, we'll all be one culture. It's happening in every field, not just fashion. Actually, I think the only hope for peace is if culture is homogenized. Unfortunately, money seems to be the only solution to political disagreements. If we are all linked through culture and trade, it won't be worth fighting each other.”

Ifs Thinking Long Seems Political Culture Fighting Fashion Fields Becoming Solutions Happenings Trade Linked Disagreement Becoming More Fighting Each Other

Author:Tom Ford

“When I feel something in my gut, I can feel it physically. But my instincts seem to come from a different place - they feel headier to me, and I get the wrong scent, and go off on these whims where I think that something is happening when it's not.”

Thinking Feels I Can Different Seems Happenings Instinct Guts Scent Different Place Whim

Author:Emma Stone

“That was one of the reasons why I wanted to tell the story of Colin Price. I saw someone in this fictionalized political character that was trying to do something important for his city. He meant well, but then you see that the human flaws had really derailed his past. It seems to be happening more and more in our country. I wanted to hold a mirror up to that.”

Trying Humans Wells Important Country Reason Character Stories Seems Wanted Past Political Cities Saws Happenings Mirrors Our Country Reason Why Flaws

Author:Nicolas Cage

“What's called art now probably has some legitimate things happening in it, but I've become more and more distrustful of a lot of it because it seems like an extension of the fashion trade and the stock market.”

Art Seems Fashion Happenings Trade Things Happen Extensions

Author:Art Spiegelman

“People tend to set themselves up in patterns; something happens, it hurts them, then something similar happens, and - it's happened again! It seems much bigger then, and they get worried and go through life looking for that thing, and because they're so concerned and looking for it, when anything that happens resembles that thing, they're sure it's happening again. So sometimes people think things are repeating even when they're not.”

People Thinking Sometimes Seems Happens Hurt Happened Happenings Concerned Bigger Patterns Things Happen Worried It Hurts Happening Again

Author:Mary Gaitskill

“Everyone seems to think they know what acting techniques are. Techniques just help you get to a certain place, but if the thing is happening just by itself you don't need those techniques.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Needs Helping Seems Certain Acting Happenings Technique

Author:Richard Gere

“You really hope that people who want to be politically active aren't so disillusioned at this point. I do feel positive about what's happening. I think that with all of these movements, and this growing collective voice that's emerging, people are starting to come out of the kind of dazed state that they were in for so many years. But it's tough to know the best way to effect change now. Campaigning alone no longer seems to be the answer.”

“I'm not sure most of the people that get caught up in the middle of a bubble can be described as irrational. It seems pretty rational to buy a house and flip it in the next few weeks at a profit when that's been happening for along time.”

People Seems Next House Week Middle Happenings Caught Profit Rational Not Sure Bubbles Irrational Caught Up Flip

Author:Paul Samuelson

“When we look at what's going on in the world and we see the immense level of conflict that seems to always be happening - you can always trace it back to competing narratives.”

World Looks Seems Levels Conflict Happenings Narrative Immense Competing

Author:Steven Soderbergh

“One of the tricks is to have the exposition conveyed in a scene of conflict, so that a character is forced to say things you want the audience to know - as, for example, if he is defending himself against somebody's attack, his words of defense seem Justified even though his words are actually expository words. Something appears to be happening, so the audience believes it is witnessing a scene (which it is), not listening to expository speeches. Humor is another way of getting exposition across.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Believe Character Seems Audience Example Listening Scene Conflict Speech Happenings Defense Tricks Justified Another Way

Author:Ernest Lehman

“One that we can admire aesthetically and participate viscerally in. So the goal here, and we've had some early, small screenings, what seems to be kind of happening is that you come in thinking you're going to see a cool robot boxing movie, you don't expect this emotional underdog, father/son movie. And it's not one that's soft and overly sentimental, but hopefully it's one that's poignant.”

Thinking Kind Seems Father Goal Emotional Son Happenings Admire Hopefully Boxing Be Kind Sentimental Robots Underdog Father Son Poignant Screening

Author:Shawn Anthony Levy

“It does seem that the sea ice is returning to 'average' after the record lows of 2007 and 2008. There has been a definite recovery trend since then, so far from being a progression towards ice free summers it seems that it was a temporary dip. The recent observations do make the 2007 projections that the region would be ice free by 2013 look very unrealistic. Given what is happening only the foolish would look many years into the future and predict ice free summers now.”

“There is a social responsibility to take care of vulnerable people. It seems that a sensible social responsibility is obligatory education, but also decent education, and that is not happening.”

People Seems Care Social Responsibility Happenings Take Care Vulnerable Decent Sensible Social Responsibility

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Usually right when I'm feeling it, right when it's happening, I always find I need to be in some sort of survival mode or mature mom mode, so it always seems to come later that I have the breakdown.”

Needs Feelings Seems Mom Survival Happenings Mature Breakdown Survival Mode

Author:Natalie Maines

“If somebody asks me about the themes of something I'm working on, I never have any idea what the themes are. . . . Somebody tells me the themes later. I sort of try to avoid developing themes. I want to just keep it a little bit more abstract. But then, what ends up happening is, they say, 'Well, I see a lot here that you did before, and it's connected to this other movie you did,' and . . . that almost seems like something I don't quite choose. It chooses me.”

Ifs Want Trying Wells Littles Ideas Ends Seems Asks Bits Little Bit Happenings Connected Developing Ask Me Abstract Theme Like Something Choose Me

Author:Wes Anderson

“As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.”

People World Way Country Seems Kids Individual Views Groups Happenings Concerned Excited Our Country Better Place Pessimistic Places In The World

Author:Steve Jobs

“I think there's just so much awesome music coming out of New Zealand, I've always loved The Naked And Famous, I absolutely love Ghost Wave... it just seems like there's a really cool scene happening out there, I'd love to go and spend some time there and see what other bands are popping up.”

Thinking Seems Scene Band Happenings Wave Ghost Naked Coming Out Really Cool New Zealand Popping

Author:Lizzy Plapinger

“These weren't college kids on acid. They were preachers, and bankers, and farmers, and the salt of American society subscribing to ideas that now seem so wild to us. These people had the most radical visions of what the future could be. And this was happening in an era we don't typically associate with sexual experimentation, or communism, or things like that.”

People Ideas Seems Kids Vision College Happenings Radical Communism Eras Farmers Salt Preacher Associates Bankers Acid Experimentation American Society

Author:Christine Jennings

“Computers don't seem real to me because there's a sheet of glass between you and whatever is happening.”

Real Seems Computer Happenings Glasses Sheets

Author:Stanley Donwood

“I look back and think of all the times I've had to let things go in the past, and how traumatic it seemed while it was happening, but how my understanding of it changed as time passed - and oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term. So I remind myself of that.”

Thinking Looks Long Seems Past Difficult Understanding Term Changed Happenings Long Term Short Term Time Passes Letting Things Go

Author:Moby

“Maybe 20 years ago, there would be an event every few months or so, maybe once a year. Now, it just seems like every week there are things happening that remind us that Bible prophecy is being fulfilled and Christ is coming. Having said that, I think that should produce in the Christians, an urgency to share their faith.”

Thinking Should Years Said Seems Would Be Christian Christ Week Share Events Produce Months Happenings Years Ago Things Happen Fulfilled Prophecy Urgency Bible Prophecy

Author:Greg Laurie

“Even heads of our own security agency said, you know, we need to take a deep breath on this. This really doesn't seem to be happening [that Russians are trying to influence American domestic politics ].”

Knows Needs Trying Said Seems Influence Security Happenings Breaths Agency Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath

Author:Jill Stein

“You could protect a religious minority against gays and lesbians. Or you could protect gays and lesbians against a religious minority. And then, it seems to me something political is happening. Because we're not really looking at the kind of speech that is injurious.”

Kind Seems Political Religious Gay Protect Speech Happenings Minorities

Author:Judith Butler

“It would be kind of magical if we were just happening to be able to see right to some boundary and then something crazy happened beyond that, like galaxies ceased to exist. I mean, that just seems nuts.”

Ifs Kind Mean Seems Would Be Able Happened Crazy Happenings Boundaries Be Kind Nuts Galaxy

Author:Janna Levin

“I don't seem to have time to breathe. Everything's happening so quickly, and so much is happening all the time.”

Seems Happenings Breathe

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.”

Writing Trying I Can Seems Force Painting Happenings Picks Guitar Frustrated Brushes

Author:Joni Mitchell

“As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.”

Home Seems Government Happenings Determined Traditional Labour Voters

Author:Lucy Powell

“Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first - forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them.”

Firsts Ideas Seems Hate Five Century Dangerous Promise Happenings Species Paris Thirty Forty Jail Precedent Detention Celebs Malibu

Author:Rob Sheffield

“Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that seems to be what is happening.”

Thinking Way Want Years May Seems Objects Happenings Individuality Deviation Thinking Alike

Book:Warhol

Source: Warhol

“In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems to happen becomes its own happening and has to be told that way. The angles of vision are skewed. When a booby trap explodes, you close your eyes and duck and float outside yourself. .. The pictures get jumbled, you tend to miss a lot. And then afterward, when you go to tell about it, there is always that surreal seemingness, which makes the story seem untrue, but which in fact represents the hard and exact truth as it seemed.”

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Author:Tim O'Brien

“When you are young so many things are difficult to believe, and yet the dullest people will tell you that they are true--such things, for instance, as that the earth goes round the sun, and that it is not flat but round. But the things that seem really likely, like fairy-tales and magic, are, so say the grown-ups, not true at all. Yet they are so easy to believe, especially when you see them happening.”

People Believe Seems Earth Young Easy Difficult Sun Magic Happenings Rounds Tales Instance Fairy Flats Fairy Tale

Book:Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit

Source: Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit

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