Quotes with seems

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  • Ann Druyan This planet seems to be in such sorry shape. And I can't ever think about the rest of the universe without coming back home and thinking what the implications for life here would be if we were to really have some definitive proof of extraterrestrial life.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Albert Einstein Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Boethius Thus, where'er the drift of hazard
    Seems most unrestrained to flow,
    Chance herself is reined and bitted,
    And the curb of law doth know.
    De Consolatione Philosophia
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Paul Klee To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Horace To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • George Eliot To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Oscar Wilde To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • George Steiner To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
    George Steiner
    French-born American Critic, Novelist (1929 - 2020)
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  • Margaret Thatcher To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • William Shakespeare To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Benjamin Haydon To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Sir Walter Scott To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Susan B. Anthony To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
    Susan B. Anthony
    American women's rights activist (1820 - 1906)
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  • Matthew Fox Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.
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  • Lewis Mumford Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Truth comes home to the mind so naturally that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • A. Alvarez Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.
    A. Alvarez
    English poet, novelist, essayist and critic (1929 - 2019)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Leon Trotsky Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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