Best seems & ends Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It's very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I'm like, this all fades to black, and it's gone. It's dust. Choose carefully what you obsess about.”

Ends Seems Black Gone Concepts Species Dust Fades

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.”

Thinking Years Kind I Can Ends Seems Five Periods Six Years Ago Concrete Dead Ends

Author:James Laughlin

“When people say that college isn't worthwhile and paying all this money isn't worthwhile, I really disagree. I think those experiences and those classes that may not necessarily seem applicable in the moment end up coming back to you time and time again.”

People Thinking May Ends Moments Seems Class College Disagree Worthwhile Coming Back

Author:Kevin Systrom

“New ideas seem like frightening ghosts to people at the beginning; they run away from them for a long time, but they get tired of it in the end!”

People Long Ideas Ends Seems Running Long Time Tired Ghost Running Away Frightening New Ideas

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they traveled seem less foolhardy.”

People Ends Seems Dark Forgiving Mortality Traveled Wrongdoing Cushions Foolhardy

Author:Walter Dean Myers

“When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems very exciting. It's only later that you begin to realize how fascinating the work is - that it's a bottomless pit, and you never get to the end of it.”

Believe Doe Ends Seems Realizing Acting Exciting Fascinating Pits Make Believe Very Romantic

Author:Sada Thompson

“Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.”

Book Ends Seems Causes Absolutes Infinite Boredom

Book:Novalis: Philosophical Writings

Source: Novalis: Philosophical Writings

“If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends, You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse, That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war: since that to both It stands in like request?”

Ifs War Ends Seems Policy Honor Honour Companionship Request

Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works

“Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet.”

Kind Ends Seems Together Society Opposites All Kinds Moderates Crowded Fanatics

Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort, at the least, and death at the other end, ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes for a time others seem alien and frivolous.”

People Feels War Ends Seems Lost Known Struggle Minutes Aliens Ties Coming Out Discomfort Confrontation Frivolous Resentful

Author:Lillian Hellman

“I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours... seems likely that I'll go on squandering till the very end.”

Trying Ends Seems Hours Mystery Goes On Fortune Sloth Indolence Squandering

Book:October

Source: October

“I'm clean, I've always been clean. But it never ends. It seems like every reporter from last season to this season has reported and opened up a new can of (expletive). And I haven't even been to spring training. At least let me get to spring training and (expletive) up before you crucify me.”

Ends Seems Lasts Havens Spring Training Seasons Let Me Clean Reporters Cleanliness Spring Training Expletives

Author:Barry Bonds

“It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate.”

Ends Seems Certain Vietnam Bloody Vietnam War Stalemate

Book:The challenges of change

Source: The challenges of change

“Human beings are like detectives. They love a mystery. They love going where the mystery pulls them. What we don't like is a mystery that's solved completely. It's a letdown. It always seems less than what we imagined when the mystery was present. The last scene in `Blow Up' is so perfect because you leave the theater still dreaming. Or the end of `Chinatown,' where the guy says `Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.' It explains so much but it only gives you a dream of a bigger mystery. Like life. For me, I want to solve certain things but leave some room to dream.”

Want Giving Humans Stills Ends Dream Seems Lasts Guy Certain Human Beings Perfect Forget Rooms Mystery Scene Bigger Theater Blow Solve Forget It Detectives Jake Letdowns Chinatown

Author:David

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty and charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. So many people seem to go about their life's business with their eyes shut. Indeed, they object to other people keeping their eyes open. Unable to play themselves, they dislike the play of others.”

People Ifs World Ends Play Seems Eye Wonderful Objects Adventure Charm Dislike Wonderful World

Book:Jawaharlal Nehru's speeches

Source: Jawaharlal Nehru's speeches

“Consciousness is the grave of things, the place where they cease to exist, beyond which they end. And when they have ended, it seems that they no longer have any essential existence except in the visions in me.”

Ends Seems Existence Consciousness Vision Essentials Graves Cease

Author:Oskar Kokoschka

“There is such a thing as righteous judgment, but it seems that lately the word 'judgment' has become a curse word, period. The issue isn't whether or not we're insightful enough to avoid being judgmental, but whether or not we're secure enough to accept being judged. It is inevitable for every conscious human being to judge. It may spring from insight and experience and sincerity, and in such cases, it is quite beneficial on the receiving end.”

Source: Killosophy

“I desire to go through life knowing as little of evil in it as possible. To this end, I sometimes avoid looking too closely into the nature of things, studying them only so far as they seem to be good, and abandoning interest in them as soon as their darker feature begin to appear. The good only deserves a hearty interest.”

Littles Ends Sometimes Seems Desire Evil Interest Knowing Study Deserve Be Good Features Hearty

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become pessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic.”

People Thinking World Trying Ends Seems Might Views Half Imagine This World Building Comfort Comfortable Regard Prison Ugly Doctrine Optimistic Hotel Pessimist Other Half

Author:C. S. Lewis

“While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.”

Persons Ends Philosophy Hands Seems Guy Conversation Wave Cards Instance Bites Dense Playing Cards

Author:Anton Chekhov

“The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century but our own, a predicament that has arisen in no other period... so that we seem to be subsisting on the ruins of the past, as if the end of the world were near.”

Ifs World Ends Seems Past Rich Century Periods Curiosity Ruins Apartment End Of The World Gothic Renaissance Cabinets Antiquity Predicaments

Author:Alfred de Musset

“Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.”

May Ends Seems America Evil Kingdoms Aliens Features Knavery

Author:George III

“Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into an opera of bracing suspense. The game will threaten never to end, until suddenly it forces you to marvel at how it came to be where it is and to wonder at how far it might go. It’s the drowsy metamorphosis of the dull into the indescribable.”

Ends Seems Might Beautiful Games Force Wonder Creation Baseball Suspense Dull Opera Accumulation Metamorphosis Something Beautiful Indescribable Drowsy

Author:Joshua Ferris

“Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask himself: "And what shall we make of the fallen? Why are they dead?" I wouldn't know what to say. Not now, at any rate. Nor does it seem to me that the others know. Perhaps only dead know, and only for them is the war really over.”

Ifs Knows Should Doe War Ends Seems Asks Ought One Day Rate Fallen

Author:Cesare Pavese

“Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.”

Ends Seems Government Institutions Sacred

Book:Memoirs of the private and public life of William Penn: who settled the state of Pennsylvania, and founded the city of Philadelphia

Source: Memoirs of the private and public life of William Penn: who settled the state of Pennsylvania, and founded the city of Philadelphia

“This was 1990, the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the words that were written about the fall of the iron curtain, nobody anywhere lamented that it was the end of a noble experiment. I know that communism never worked and I would have disliked living under it myself but none the less it seems that there was a kind of sadness in the thought that the only economic system that appeared to work was one based on self interest and greed.”

Knows Years Kind Ends Self Seems Fall Interest Written Sadness Economic Strange Europe Died Greed Noble Experiments Communism Iron Curtains Self Interest Economic Systems Iron Curtain

Author:Bill Bryson

“One of the things that puzzles me is that so few people want to look at life as a totality and to recognize that death is no more extraordinary than birth. When they say it's the end of everything they don't seem to recognize that we came from somewhere and it would be very, very strange indeed to suppose that we're not going somewhere.”

People Want Looks Ends Seems Would Be Strange Birth Extraordinary Puzzles Totality

Book:Conversations with Robertson Davies

Source: Conversations with Robertson Davies

“The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.”

Littles Ends Facts Seems Middle Creatures

Book:I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

Source: I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

“There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.”

Littles Ends Done Seems Universe Planets Concerned Importance Mortals Minors Wickedness Solar System

Book:My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor

Source: My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor

“Had the jury convicted on proper instructions it would be the end of the matter. But juries are not bound by what seems inescapable logic to judges.”

Ends Matter Seems Would Be Judging Logic Bounds Instruction Jury

Author:Robert H. Jackson

“Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom our minds are none the less only too happy to discover at last, for without it, reduced to their own devices, they would be powerless to make any room seem habitable.”

Mind Ends Seems Would Be Lasts Moving Suffering Rooms Week Habit Devices Temporary Quarters Powerless

Book:Swann's Way

Source: Swann's Way

“Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important than the ends.”

Firsts Mean Important Ends Reality Seems Modern Civilization Modern Life

Book:Presence in the Modern World: A New Translation

Source: Presence in the Modern World: A New Translation

“In terms of cooking with friends, I realized early on that all great meals seem to start and end in the kitchen, and the more you can get people engaged and hands-on, the better the memories will be. So when people come into your kitchen while you're cooking and prepping and politely ask, "Do you need any help?" the key is to say yes.”

People Needs Ends Helping Hands Seems Asks Term Memories Keys Cooking I Realized Engaged Meals Kitchen

Author:Rick Tramonto

“Give me an adventure. I'm not talking about some massive adventure. Just something that would make getting fired seem small. Something that I might remember when I'm old." "I can't predict the future," I said, "but based on what little I know so far, I'm afraid it has to be a massive adventure or nothing." "Great!" "Probably the kind of adventure that ends in a mass burial.”

Knows Giving Kind Littles Said I Can Ends Seems Might Remember Talking Adventure Mass Give Me Massive Remember When Not Talking Burial Getting Fired

Book:Anathem

Source: Anathem

“I must cite an intrinsic condition of the universe. We set forth in any direction which seems convenient; each leads to the same place: the end of the universe.”

Ends Seems Universe Conditions Convenient Citing

Book:Rhialto the Marvellous

Source: Rhialto the Marvellous

“The burden of all song and praise "unto the Highest" has been that God stands for justice and mercy. Yet injustice among men is ever on the increase; the outrages committed against the masses in this country alone would seem enough to overflow the very heavens. But where are the gods to make an end to all these horrors, these wrongs, this inhumanity to man? No, not the gods, but MAN must rise in his mighty wrath. He, deceived by all the deities, betrayed by their emissaries, he, himself, must undertake to usher in justice upon the earth.”

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“It is certain that the Jew, if he desired-or if they were driven to it, as the antisemites seem to wish-could now have the ascendancy, nay, literally the supremacy, over Europe; that they are not working or planning for that end is equally sure... The resourcefulness of the modern Jews, both in mind and soul, is extraordinary.”

Ifs Mind Soul Ends Seems Certain Wish Modern Europe Extraordinary Jew Driven Planning Supremacy Resourcefulness Ascendancy

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Oh my gosh, I’d give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it’s going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I’ve already forgotten.”

Knows World Giving Mean Doe Ends Seems Causes Advice Like You All Things Forgotten Versions Get Better End Of The World Oh My Gosh

Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“If TV seems improved, I think it's been enhanced by violence and sex permissible on cable, as well as better cinematography, but in the end it's really only soap operas like your grandmother's afternoon "stories" and that's all it wants to be or has to be.”

Ifs Thinking Want Wells Ends Stories Seems Sex Violence Tvs Like You Grandmother Afternoon Opera Soap Cables Soap Operas Cinematography Your Grandmother

Author:William Monahan

“When the German people trusting to the promises made by President Wilson in his Fourteen Points, laid down their arms in November 1918, a fateful struggle thereby came to an end for which perhaps individual statesmen, but certainly not the peoples themselves could be held responsible. The German nation put up such an heroic fight because it was sincere in its conviction that it had been wrongfully attacked and was therefore justified in fighting. the Peace Treaty of Versailles did not seem to be for the purpose of restoring peace to mankind, but rather to perpetuate hatred.”

“It seems to be overwhelmingly likely that there is life out there and eventually we will make contract. And when contact is made, it will be the end of Earth's cultural evolution. It will be the greatest discovery in the history of humankind.”

Made Ends Seems Earth Evolution Discovery Contact Made It Contracts Humankind

Author:Paul Horowitz

“As I look around the West End these days, it seems to me that outside every thin girl is a fat man, trying to get in.”

Men Trying Looks Ends Seems Girl West Fats These Days Fat Man West End

Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“South Africa used to seem so far away. Then it came home to me. It began to signify the meaning of white hatred here. That was what the sheets and the suits and the ties covered up, not very well. That was what the cowardly guys calling me names from their speeding truck wanted to happen to me, to all of me: to my people. That was what would happen to me if I walked around the corner into the wrong neighborhood. That was Birmingham. That was Brooklyn. That was Reagan. That was the end of reason. South Africa was how I came to understand that I am not against war; I am against losing the war.”

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