“My personal missteps - how many Americans have died as a result of that? None. Other than my family, how many victims were there? None. And yet, in refusing to engage in a responsible debate about Iraq, how many Americans died? Thousands. And America seems to have no problem with that.” ProblemSeemsAmericaResultsMy FamilyDiedResponsibleVictimIraqDebateNo Problem Author:Scott Ritter
“You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same journalists who build you up between Monday and Friday tear you down for weekend fun...My family's habit of living in the past seems to me pathological, even dangerous. If all greatness lies in the past, what is the point of the future?” IfsShouldSeemsPastLyingFallFunLove YouDangerousGreatnessTearsHabitMy FamilyPressesFalling In LoveJournalistBeastWeekendMondayFridayLiving In The PastNever Fall In Love Author:Stephen L. Carter
“When I was kid, yeah, my family, my parents wanted me to marry a Jewish girl because that was what they taught their children, and thought it would be an easier life for me to raise a Jewish kid. And I have a Jewish wife, I have a Jewish kid. They seem pretty happy about it.” ChildrenSeemsWould BeKidsWantedGirlParentWifeTaughtEasierMy FamilyRaisesYeahEasier Life Author:Adam Sandler
“Because of the way I've made my money or the way I've conducted myself in public to get success, it doesn't make me any better a person. So I always thought money and achievement would make me a more legitimate person, where my family seems to think it's all about actions.” ThinkingWayPersonsMadeSeemsActionAchievementMy Family Author:Jim Jefferies
“Luckily for me, I became a rap star so I'm making enough money to support my family. It's funny because that may seem like the only way that I can do such a task.” WayMayI CanEnoughSeemsStarsCan DoSupportTasksMy FamilyRap Author:Joey Badass
“My whole life has been traveling, so it just seems normal to me, ... I'm able to leave on a bus with eight or nine guys, and I feel really comfortable with it. I've always done it. It's heaps of fun. They're all people I get along with really well. They're all my family, my best friends.” PeopleFeelsWellsHas BeensDoneWholeSeemsAbleGuyFunNormalComfortableMy FamilyEightWhole LifeNineBusMy Best Friend Author:Kasey Chambers
“If I try to make only enough money for my family' immediate needs, it may violate Scripture. ...Even though earning just enough to meet the needs of my family may seem non materialistic, it's actually selfish when I could earn enough to care for others as well.” IfsNeedsTryingWellsMayEnoughSeemsCareMy FamilySelfishScriptureEarningMaterialistic Author:Randy Alcorn
“My dad was young. He went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. That didn't seem to be in the nature of - in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really. They were - we had a cousin that went to - off to Brown University. It was like a nuclear explosion took place.” WorldWarSeemsYoungParentDadMy FamilyUniversityMy DadFolksNuclearBrownTravelerCousinExplosionsBrown University Author:Bruce Springsteen
“My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out; it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little.” KnowsTryingLittlesSeemsParentDifficultSidesRecordsTreeMy FamilyProvenDublin Author:Steven Morrissey
“Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact.” IfsWayWritingSometimesEnoughFactsSeemsSpeakAnswersDealsAttentionAudienceMy FamilyPaidMeetingsTerrorismRelevantThreatened Book:Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume Source: Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume
“In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.” SeemsOughtMy FamilyMy Sister's KeeperSisters Keeper Book:My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel
“Times like this it did seem real I was leaving, and even more that my family, and this life, would go on without me. And again I felt that emptiness rise up, but pushed it away. Still, I lingered there, in the doorway, memorizing the noise. The moment. Tucking it away out of sight, to be remembered when I needed it most.” StillsRealMomentsSeemsFeltGoes OnNeededMy FamilySightLeavingNoiseThis LifeRememberedEmptinessDoorwaysMemorizing Author:Sarah Dessen