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“So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.”

Way Sometimes Hard Seems Choices Heal Best Way Keep Positive

Author:Petra Nemcova

“Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until it is completely right.”

Writing Sometimes Play Seems Roles Revision

Author:Ellen Hunnicutt

“It seems the best approach for any venture is a combo platter - Japan's quality-consciousness paired with America's willingness to experiment and (sometimes) fail.”

Sometimes Seems America Consciousness Quality Failing Approach Experiments Japan Willingness Venture

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.”

Years Mean Art Sometimes Problem Seems Artist Quality Audience Taste Ten Artistic Momentary Fluctuation Glitches

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals.”

World Sometimes Seems Deals Fate Communication Decided Corporate Electronic Communication

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.”

Sometimes Seems Today Order Religious Moral Opposites Saving God Love Imperatives Prevailing Proclamation Saving Love

Book:Encountering Truth: Meeting God in the Everyday

Source: Encountering Truth: Meeting God in the Everyday

“A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.”

Book Real Sometimes Seems Lines Real Life

Author:Chris Ware

“Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to me a lot, actually - the melancholy of the situation becomes more front and center.”

Writing Sometimes Seems Happens Situation Fronts Pages Melancholy

Author:Mike White

“We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this world, you'll notice one curious fact about them, they all suffer, they all die, and sometimes those who are the nicest seem to suffer the most.”

People World Inspirational War Sometimes Facts Seems Suffering Dies Wonderful This World Buddhism Oppression Curious Alarms Famine

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

“I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.”

Thinking Years Children Sometimes Seems Type Disease Adults Kidneys Kidney Disease

Author:Marianne Wiggins

“Lawyers have a way of seeing that sets them apart from the rest of us. In some way this special vision makes them invaluable, and in other ways, repulsive. Lawyers are much more focused on rational, logical, and objective criteria to the exclusion of the emotional, subjective, and sometimes irrational reponses to the world. Moreover, lawyers like to show no emotion, and possess a particular disdain for the emotions that are found in others, which has the quality of making them seem inhuman.”

“Sometimes, you can't seem to find any song on the radio that you like.”

Sometimes Seems Song Radio

Author:Sondre Lerche

“Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.”

People Way Sometimes Seems Strange Listening Magazines Blogs

Author:Victoria Legrand

“All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.”

Book Sometimes Seems Worry Hobbies

Author:Tom Paulin

“You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way.”

Thinking Way Kind Littles Sometimes Dream Seems Might Goal Vision Disappointment Resistance Rejection Scare Dreams You Have

Author:Gregory Peck

“The most interesting people I know drink in life and savor every drop-the sweet and the sour. The good and the bad. The planned and the unplanned... Right in the midst of what seems to me to be a detour from the map, I'm often gifted with something precious and unforgettable. Capturing the moment is a choice, a way of life. It requires us to wake up, live life, and be present-here, there and everywhere. Sometimes that's scary; sometimes it's exhilarating. Always, it's an adventure I keep learning to welcome with a full and grateful heart.”

“I always have to remember that I am the narrator, but it doesn't have to be about me. A lot of songwriting is about trying to use what part of me is valid in telling the story. I don't want to overcook it, you know? Sometimes it seems that's really where the work is.”

Knows Want Trying Sometimes Stories Use Seems Remember Songwriting Narrators

Author:Ryan Adams

“Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.”

Should Made Two Sometimes Feelings Seems Life Is Difficult Cutting Temptation Former Ties Dependent Strongest Former Life

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.”

Ifs Way Writing Art Sometimes Seems Together Position Bases Wander Strings Absurdity Incongruity

Book:The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories

Source: The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories

“There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.”

Sometimes Seems Purpose Waiting Results Strange All Things Method Patient Accidents Providence Employed Be Patient

Book:Mark Twain's Fables of Man

Source: Mark Twain's Fables of Man

“But spirituality, it seems to me, when answering the question, "Why should I be good? Why should I care for others?" says, "Because that is the best, most fulfilling way to live" Whether or not you receive an award or a payment is incidental. You are good and kind and loving because it is right, even though it is difficult sometimes. It fulfills the highest law, to treat others as we wish to be treated.”

Way Should Kind Sometimes Seems Care Law Spirituality Wish Difficult Highest Treats Be Good Treated Awards Should I I Care Fulfilling Payment Way To Live

Author:Philip Gulley

“I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.”

“Who's to say what will one day appear to have been trendsetting? Sometimes artists who receive breathless acclaim initially, seem to conk out. Other artists who don't register so keenly at the time, prove to be trailblazers.”

Has Beens Sometimes Seems Artist One Day Prove Register Breathless Acclaim Trailblazers

Author:Charles Saatchi

“Although sometimes I know it seems impossible, there ain't no need in drowning in your sorrow. If things are as bad as they can be, you can be sure there'll be a brighter tomorrow.”

Ifs Knows Needs Sometimes Seems Impossible Tomorrow Sorrow Be You Impossibility Drowning Brighter Brighter Tomorrow

Author:Shaggy

“It's necessary, sometimes, for women to embrace the company of other women even more than might seem normal. But there is no normal in this world. Radical change is necessary to counterbalance what has occurred.”

World Sometimes Seems Might Women Company This World Normal Enlightenment Embrace Radical Radical Change

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I'm sometimes sort of in touch with the readership, and they seem to have perceptive questions, for the most part.”

Sometimes Seems Readership

Author:Bryan Lee O'Malley

“Sometimes, at a certain point, the painting seems to have painted itself without my help - what I have called the 'eureka' moment when a sudden daring intervention has worked a miracle.”

Sometimes Moments Helping Seems Certain Painting Miracle Daring Intervention

Author:Joseph Plaskett

“When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. For instance, success in all of its various guises; being known and being praised; ostensible pleasures, like acquiring money or seducing women, or traveling, going to and fro in the world and up and down in it like Satan, exploring and experiencing whatever Vanity Fair has to offer. In retrospect all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called “licking the earth.”

“The matter of the abuse and cruelty we inflict on other animals has to fight for our attention in what sometimes seems an already overfull moral agenda. It is vital, however, that these instances of injustice not be overlooked.”

Sometimes Matter Seems Fighting Animal Attention Moral Abuse Injustice Cruelty Instance Agendas Overlooked

Author:Desmond Tutu

“It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders in loyal acquiesce.”

Sometimes Seems Order Masters Silent Humble Surrender Servant Loyal Wiser Insecure Petty Discerning Haughty

Book:Healology

Source: Healology

“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

“I want to keep working with people that care about what they're doing. It seems obvious, but it's not. It's sometimes hard to keep on that track.”

People Want Sometimes Hard Seems Care Track Obvious

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.”

Thinking Persons Long Sometimes Hard Seems Evil Winning Ignorance Goodness Long Time Weakness Hard Times Good Person Trustworthy Wrong Thinking

Book:Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker

Source: Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker

“There are some good things and some fantastic ones in Auden's early attitude; if the reader calls it a muddle I shall acquiesce, with the remark that the later position might be considered a more rarefied muddle. But poets rather specialize in muddles and I have no doubt which of the muddles was better for Auden's poetry: one was fertile and usable, the other decidedly is not. Auden sometimes seems to be saying with Henry Clay, "I had rather be right than poetry"; but I am not sure, then, that he is either.”

Ifs Sometimes Seems Might Attitude Doubt Position Poet Reader Good Things Fantastic Not Sure No Doubt Clay Remarks Fertile Muddle Auden

Author:Randall Jarrell

“It really seems to me sometimes that the only hope is space. That is to say, perhaps the most energeticin a bad senseelements will move on to a new world in space. The problems of mass society will be transported into space, leaving behind this world as a kind of Europe, which then eventually tourists will visit. The Old World. I'm only half joking.”

World Kind Sometimes Problem Seems Moving Space Behinds Half This World Elements Mass Europe Leaving New World Tourists Energetic Space Travel Old World

Author:Mary McCarthy

“Precise, graceful, and generous, the poems in SuperLoop, seem to be born out of a deep, careful attention and a profound compassion. Sometimes the quiet observer, sometimes the kid in the center of the messed-up carnival, these poems are the fireflies you’ve missed all winter, the longed-for return of the bees. Unaffected and inherently hopeful, Callihan’s work is as merciful as it is moving.”

Sometimes Seems Kids Moving Born Attention Compassion Return Quiet Profound Winter Careful Generous Hopeful Bees Precise Observers Merciful Messed Up Firefly Carnivals

Author:Ada Limon

“It's amazing how harmless the world can sometimes seem.”

World Sometimes Seems

Book:This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel

Source: This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel

“I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.”

Two Sometimes Seems Metaphor Fishes Load

Author:Bernard Malamud

“Sometimes it appears that we're reaching a period when our senses and our minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation. We seem to be approaching an Age of the Gross. Persuasion through speeches and books is too often discarded for disruptive demonstrations aimed at bludgeoning the unconvinced into action.”

Mind Book Sometimes Seems Age Action Politics Periods Speech Senses Reaching Persuasion Gross Moderates Demonstration Discarded Stimulation Disruptive

Author:Spiro T. Agnew

“It's difficult for people sometimes to recognise when they're happy. People sometimes seem to me to be afraid to be happy.”

People Sometimes Seems Difficult Recognise Happy People

Author:Jack Nicholson

“Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.”

Want Sometimes Seems Energy Easier Anxiety Stress Muster Stress And Anxiety

Author:Ann Voskamp

“There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature. They are like gigantic trees that we sometimes see on the banks of a stream; which, by their vast and deep roots, penetrating through the mere surface, and laying hold on the very foundations of the earth, preserve the soil around them from being swept away by the ever-flowing current, and hold up many a neighboring plant, and perhaps worthless weed, to perpetuity.”

Source: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)

“It is sometimes said that because of our past we, as a people, expect too much and set our sights too high. That is not the way I see it. Rather it seems to me that throughout my life in politics our ambitions have steadily shrunk. Our response to disappointment has not been to lengthen our stride but to shorten the distance to be covered. But with confidence in ourselves and in our future what a nation we could be!”

People Way Said Sometimes Seems Past Nations Too Much Ambition Sight Distance Response Disappointment Covered Our Future Our Past Stride

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“Sometimes it seems to me that God 's way of dealing with me is not to let me see much of my friends, those who are most to me in the spiritual life, lest I should forget that the invisible bond is the only reality. That is the only way I can reconcile myself to the inevitable separations of life and death.”

Way Should I Can Sometimes Reality Seems Spiritual Forget My Friends Let Me Separation Invisible Inevitable Life And Death Spiritual Life Reconcile

Author:Lucy Larcom

“That's the nub of the thing, you see seriousness of spirit. It doesn't mean heaviness of heart, or a lack of fantasy, but it does mean an awareness of influences that touch our lives, sometimes in ways that seem cruel and unfeeling, and sometimes in ways that open up a glory which can never be forgotten.”

Way Heart Mean Doe Sometimes Seems Spirit Fantasy Our Lives Influence Awareness Glory Forgotten Seriousness Heaviness Unfeeling

Book:Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre

Source: Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre

“We hear about the successful "Texanisation" of the Republican party. And doesn't Texas sometimes seem to resemble a country like Saudi Arabia, with its great heat, its oil wealth, its brimming houses of worship, and its weekly executions?”

Country Sometimes Seems House Wealth Worship Oil Heat Texas Execution Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Houses Of Worship

Author:Martin Amis

“To you a pious young girl who goes to mass and communion, seems pretty silly and childish; you take us for innocents... Well, let me tell you, sometimes we know more about evil than people who have only learned to offend God.”

People Knows Wells Sometimes Seems Young Girl Evil Mass Let Me Silly Communion Pious

Author:Georges Bernanos

“The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad levels of opinion on which men soonest settle and longest dwell, following and marking the almost imperceptible slopes of national tendency, yet always aiming at direct advances, always recruited from sources nearer heaven, and sometimes bursting open paths of progress and fruitful human commerce through what seem the eternal barriers of both.”

Source: My Study Windows

“True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked "Unknown," and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of the contradiction involved in "honoring the memory" of him of whom no memory remains to honor; but the attempt seems to do no great harm to the living, even to the logical.”

Thinking Sometimes Seems Memories Half Honor Involved Remains Green Harm Graves Contradiction Logical Cemetery No Memory

Book:Shadows of Blue & Gray: The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce

Source: Shadows of Blue & Gray: The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce