Top 100 It Seems Quotes
#1. There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.
T. S. Eliot
#2. It seems no matter how long we live, we never seem to know what we're meant to be doing.
Jacinta Maree
#3. There are certain things in which we so rarely meet with our double that it seems a miracle when that chance befalls.
Charlotte Bronte
#4. It seems reasonable to expect that beauty will emerge from a fusion of the individual character and culture of the potter,with the nature of his materials.
Bernard Leach
#5. It seems to me the fence separating us from who we are and who we can be is not a straight line, not erect, but something wavering and distant, a reflection of who we are and what we fear.
Chloe Thurlow
#6. It seems to me that God would not have endowed us with a mind and a sense of curiosity if he did not mean for us to use it.
Matthew S. Williams
#7. I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask.
Minnie Driver
#8. It seems like the older bands are bigger than ever. We get a mixed crowd where you have kids and old blokes like me.
Geezer Butler
#9. Lesson 1: Don't trust anybody.
Lesson 2: Be confident.
Lesson 3: Nothing is ever what it seems.
Lesson 4: When you're outgunned, stay quiet.
Jack Heath
#10. The older you get, the fewer things it seems too late to do.
Robert Breault
#11. It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it!
Claude Monet
#12. It's never as good as it feels, and it's never as bad as it seems.
Edward Zander
#13. the big problem with motherhood of girls, it seems to me, is that we're both women.
Elizabeth Noble
#14. Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems
that political independence disappears without economic independence
that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
Booker T. Washington
#15. Admittedly, a book about pro-life apologetics may not appeal to some lay Christians. It seems many believers would rather focus on end times rather than these times. That's a mistake. Humans who ignore questions about truth and human value may soon learn what it really means to be left behind.
Scott Klusendorf
#16. I know a lot of actors talk about the importance of wardrobe, and it always seems like it's kind of a cop-out, maybe, because it seems like a minor detail to some people. But I think it's hugely important.
Anna Faris
#17. It seems strange to want to find yourself. Wouldn't you want to find somebody else? Aren't you the one thing you can be sure of?
Brooke Davis
#18. Whenever you see people talking about how real they are or how normal they are, it seems odd to have that self awareness that you could potentially not be normal.
Steve Carell
#19. It seems that the concealed carry policy now in effect in 30 states is unfair to goblins. They cannot tell who is armed and who is not, and when their intended victim shoots back it hurts their feelings - along with other things.
Jeff Cooper
#20. The grace of God is abundant. It is for all lands, for all ages, for all conditions. It seems to undergird everything. Pardon for the worst sin, comfort for the sharpest suffering, brightest light for the thickest darkness.
Thomas De Witt Talmage
#21. It seems insane to be expected to lie in a dark room alone and not feel completely crazy and bipolar and confused and more awake.
Jordan Castro
#22. Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one; a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may successfully deal with non-quantitative problems in a much broader sense than was suspected to be possible.
Alfred Korzybski
#23. Each time I play a song it seems more real.
Robert Smith
#24. So, it, of course, makes one wonder how many other people there might be who are completely innocent, who have been sent by the U.S. to countries where they've been interrogated, and in some instances it seems tortured.
Jane Mayer
#25. As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice.
Tom Hodgkinson
#26. Life really is a story, and every story comes to an end. At the same time, it seems we all leave in the middle of our own stories. It's who we become that gives the story body, form and meaning.
Melinda West Seifert
#27. We live in a consumer culture, and Black Friday is like the July 4th of that culture. It might be good not to live in this culture, but it terms of what we can do to make people safer at big sales, it seems more useful to try to avoid dangerous crowd conditions.
John Seabrook
#28. We looked too long for God and truth through words alone. The fruit for humanity has been rather limited, it seems to me - especially when I observe every day the extraordinary amount of unhappy and angry people in well educated and 'religious' countries.
Richard Rohr
#29. It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished.
Soren Kierkegaard
#30. While I'm sure this is going to be a fascinating story,' I interrupted. 'I don't care. I'm having a major parental crisis that sort of outshines your little tantrum, and frankly it seems like my dad agrees with you. I have a party to get ready for, can we do this later?
Kody Keplinger
#31. It seems that film-makers are being divided between those working in digital and those who are not. I think it's not something predetermined - it all depends on what project we have in mind, and on that basis we choose the medium.
Abbas Kiarostami
#32. In 2012, the city of Austin erected an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of Willie Nelson in the heart of the business district. Schoolchildren, churchgoers, tourists, slackers, conventioneers, tech geeks - everybody, it seems - now congregate around this ponytailed shrine to outlaw country.
Douglas Brinkley
#33. It seems to me scarcely possible that one who has so long lived in sin, who has resisted so much light and has so often grieved away the Holy Spirit, as I have, should again be visited with its heavenly influences. But I hope it is so.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#34. Sometimes things feel hopeless. Not always within my own life - but looking outward, it seems like rough times lie ahead of us. The world seems to be kind of caving in on itself in a lot of ways. But I try to look on the bright side.
Jenny Lewis
#35. The trouble with going crazy is that you have to go around making it up to everyone afterwards. It seems they should be making something up to you.
Sheila Ballantyne
#36. I looked at whale jawbones in the museum this morning. Then I did some shopping. Whenever I go into the drugstore it seems that many people are buying condoms and motion sickness medicine.
Lydia Davis
#37. I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social life and cultureof their epoch. They seem to accept a dogma of immaculate conception of philosophical systems.
John Dewey
#38. Strengths are not activities you're good at, they're activities that strengthen you. A strength is an activity that before you're doing it you look forward to doing it; while you're doing it, time goes by quickly and you can concentrate; after you've done it, it seems to fulfill a need of yours.
Marcus Buckingham
#39. She takes after Laura in that respect: the same tendency towards absolutism, the same refusal to compromise, the same scorn for the grosser human failings. To get away with that, you have to be beautiful. Otherwise it seems mere peevishness.
Margaret Atwood
#40. It seems to me that he has never loved, that he has only imagined that he has loved, that there has been no real love on his part. I even think that he is incapable of love; he is too much occupied with other thoughts and ideas to become strongly attached to anyone earthly.
Anna Dostoyevskaya
#41. It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive at an understanding of humanity as it is at present.
Emile Durkheim
#42. It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized man, a really civilized woman, must hold such a God in abhorrence and contempt.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#43. It seems to me that the real clue to your sexual orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than your sexual feelings. If you are really gay, you are able to fall in love with a man, not just enjoy sex with him.
Christopher Isherwood
#44. It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.
James Joyce
#45. It seems lies come very easily to your race. They lie to those they lead, to their mates and fellows no matter how close- drawn, even to themselves if it will make the world around them more bearable. It is hard to know what to believe in this place." Something
Richard K. Morgan
#46. It seems like I have lived a lifetime in just one day.
Siobhan Davis
#47. It seems sometimes that people take a deliberately myopic and fill their eyes with things seen microscopically in order not to see macrosopically.
Marilyn Frye
#48. I would not give much for a man's Christianity if he is saved himself and is not willing to try and save others. It seems to me the basest ingratitude if we do not reach out the hand to others who are down in the same pit from which we were delivered. Who
D.L. Moody
#49. We must be learning if we are to feel fully alive, and when life, or love, becomes too predictable and it seems like there is little left to learn, we become restless - a protest, perhaps, of the plastic brain when it can no longer perform its essential task.
Norman Doidge
#50. It seems to me that whereas power usually means power-over, the power of some person or group over some other person or group, it is possible to develop the conception of power-with, a jointly developed power, a co-active, not a coercive power.
Mary Parker Follett
#51. It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on.
Sean Parker
#52. But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system.
Henry Mayhew
#53. When we talk about time management, it seems ridiculous to worry about speed before direction, about saving minutes when we may be wasting years.
Stephen R. Covey
#54. Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.
Natasha Bedingfield
#55. If only we had the ability to live life as though it were so new or so close to the end that all we could do is give and show and become love. It seems that beginnings and endings teach us about this kind of love. It is in between that we tend to forget.
Michael Spehn
#56. It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them.
Marilynne Robinson
#57. It seems like people my age are over-protected today, even to the point where a lot of parents refuse to put their kids in the position to make important decisions, to aspire to great things, because they don't want to put them in a position to fail.
Abby Sunderland
#58. The radical intelligence in the moderate position is the only place where the center holds. Or so it seems.
Renata Adler
#59. It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me.
Hayao Miyazaki
#60. It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.
Alan Moore
#61. Inequality has risen to the point that it seems to me worthwhile for the U.S. to seriously consider taking the risk of making our economy more rewarding for more of the people.
Janet Yellen
#62. Casinos are spreading like wildfire, and it seems to be an entertainment option that a significant number of people engage in. That's just the reality of gaming that it is proving to be attractive to a great number of people.
Ron Porter
#63. It seems to me they're not really happy unless they're at the same time on public display and at their worst.
Elaine Dundy
#64. It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.
Terry Pratchett
#65. It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was. My ambition from earliest memory was to produce a daily comic strip.
Charles M. Schulz
#66. It seems so antithetical to the teachings of Christ to proclaim your faith in public. I mean, of course you're not supposed to hide your light under a bushel.
Moby
#67. No, but still, the fact is, at least this is how it seems to me, everybody has to learn about it [love] from scratch for themselves. And we all make the same mistakes time and again while we're learning.
Aidan Chambers
#68. People say sometimes, "You work in the fastest-moving industry in the world." I don't feel that way. I think I work in one of the slowest. It seems to take forever to get anything done.
Steve Jobs
#69. It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.
Kenneth Koch
#70. I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.
A.J. Ayer
#71. Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It's like stealing something valuable they don't even know they own.
Chuck Palahniuk
#72. Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires
Richard Wright
#73. Now that I think about it, it seems to me that's what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all the time about anything you like, so that a drawing on the wall does not have to be diminished by the memory of the frescoes of Giotto in Padua.
Julio Cortazar
#74. Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.
Taryn Manning
#75. Sometimes ... it seems as though not a moment has moved, but then you look up and you're already old or you already have a household of kids or you look down and see your feet are miles and miles away from the rest of you - and you realize you've grown up.
Jacqueline Woodson
#77. I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it.
David Chalmers
#78. More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#79. Since ancient times, spiritual masters of all traditions have pointed to the Now as the key to the spiritual dimension. Despite this, it seems to have remained a secret.
Eckhart Tolle
#80. I've given up trying to understand what people think about me. It seems like a lot of people don't like the music we make and don't know me, or something.
Conor Oberst
#81. It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
Al Sharpton
#82. Sometimes it seems to me that in this absurdly random life there is some inherent justice in the outcome of personal relationships. In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to give.
Sheldon B. Kopp
#83. It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate.
James Bryant Conant
#84. It seems to me that this debate, whether Islam is a religion of peace or not, really, it's irrelevant for outsiders. It's for Muslims to decide whether it's a religion of peace or not.
Chuck Todd
#85. A woman I knew just drowned herself
The well was deep and muddy
She was just shaking off futility
Or punishing somebody
My friends were calling up all day yesterday
All emotions and abstractions
It seems we all live so close to that line
and so far from satisfaction
Joni Mitchell
#86. it seems we've got a mental block when it comes to hypermedia in web APIs. This is a big problem, because hypermedia is the feature that makes a web API capable of handling changes gracefully.
Leonard Richardson
#87. Being a villain, it seems, provides a certain amount of indisputable clarity." -- Commander Invincible
Neil Connelly
#88. I'm a big fan of comedians not having to apologize for anything. Nowadays it seems comedians are always apologizing for being funny.
Kevin Dillon
#89. In the name of all that is holy, tell me why God felt the need to make a hell. It seems so redundant.
Rick Yancey
#90. It seems like it happens pretty often - there's always something that happens that's bad. About 40 percent of the food I make doesn't come out so good, only because I'm experimenting and it just doesn't work out right. It's always a learning experience.
Thu Tran
#91. Is that love? It seems like a pale word, too easily tossed about by people who don't know the meaning of it, who twist it for their own ends. I'm afraid of it now, right up there with clowns, close spaces, and open flames.
Ann Aguirre
#92. Pursuing a God-ordained passion, no matter how crazy it seems, is the most responsible thing you can do.
Mark Batterson
#93. It seems like all the time people are making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true visions when you look behind. A person can slide so fast into being something they never really intended. I wonder if you can truly resurrect your own self.
Elizabeth Berg
#94. The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.
Cynthia Ozick
#95. It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
Laura Schlessinger
#96. Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.
Amy Grant
#98. Vermonters, it seems to me, are like ethnics in their own land. They are exceedingly conscious of their difference from other Americans, and they talk a great deal about outsiders, newcomers, and people from the south.
Jan Morris
#99. Some women bristle, in certain contexts, at being called female: it seems to focus exclusively on the reproductive system, and makes you feel like a chicken, all thighs and breasts.
Mary Norris
#100. I do not know exactly why, but it seems to me that images do not belong to anybody but are instead there, at the disposal of all.
Maurizio Cattelan
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