Quotes 241 till 260 of 385.
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
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Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
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Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
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Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
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That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another.
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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
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That no one dies of migraine seems, to someone deep into an attack, an ambiguous blessing.
The White Album (1979) 213 -
That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
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The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of change there, because it's the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained.
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The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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The cliché that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.
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