Quotes About Seemed

#1. The gentleman had been an uncommonly affable fellow, but every time he counted to twenty (and he seemed to do so with strange frequency), he skipped the number twelve.

Julia Quinn

#2. Marriage is full of such cut-and-dry arrangements, Rhonda thought,then felt that small ache she sometimes got at the back of her skull-the one that told her she might be alone forever, not a fate that she chose but rather a fate that seemed to have been chosen for her.

Jennifer McMahon

#3. The world seemed to go red. He wanted to scream his outrage, to charge at Skarn and tear the murdering bastard's face off with his bare teeth. But he knew that meant certain death. No, he had to be ice. Not fire, but ice.

Luke Scull

#4. When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.

Zaha Hadid

#5. They seemed so united that I loved them as one person. Lee wrote of his son and daughter-in-law on his daughter-in-law's death.

Robert E.Lee

#6. Children in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dripping some form of goo.

Stephenie Meyer

#7. She seemed suddenly a daughter of light alone. His entity dropped out of her plane and he longed only to touch her dress with almost the realization that Joseph must have had of Mary's eternal significance.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#8. the air had that magically still quality common in autumn. The whole world felt crisp and bright, and time seemed suspended.

Deborah Harkness

#9. The suit caught light and stirred like a bed of black tweed-thorns, interminably itching, covering the man's long body with motion so it seemed he should excruciate, cry out, and tear the clothes free.

Ray Bradbury

#10. It all made perfect sense, and at the same time, nothing seemed to make sense at all.

Nicholas Sparks

#11. There was some new quiet in her, but it didn't shrink or wilt her. Rather, it seemed to enlarge her. She was no mere weapon as she was trained to be, but a woman in full command of her power, unbowed and unbroken, and that was a dangerous thing.

Laini Taylor

#12. The British welfare state, it seemed, had removed the incentives without which a capitalist economy simply could not function: the carrot of serious money for those who strove, the stick of hardship for those who slacked.

Niall Ferguson

#13. Why are you asking me now?" I asked. "Why didn't you ask me before?"
"You seemed a little ... unstable," Mayson said. "Now you seem to be more like yourself ... which is still ... rather unstable.

L.D. Davis

#14. Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste.

J.K. Rowling

#15. It seemed to him that Filipinos didn't attach too much importance to what their first names could do to their fate, only to their surnames.

Clarissa V. Militante

#16. It seemed to me as we were talking about Christ rising from the dead, the sun popped over the mountain. That was indicative of Christ rising - a new day. It just makes sense.

Robert Hayden

#17. She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.

James M. Barrie

#18. All talk of method and style seemed suddenly trivial; I became interested in meaning. I wanted to say something musically about life and living.

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

#19. Through the dark days of legalized segregation and on into the civil rights era, jazz shone as a beacon for achieving interracial respect and understanding. It seemed as if the dream of a color-blind society was within reach in the jazz world, where musicians were judged on merit and not skin color.

Randy Sandke

#20. Earth's orbital grid was a mish-mash of new and old systems, not even a tenth as deadly as it should be due to political considerations that, until very recently, seemed so incredibly important.

Evan Currie

#21. When I have you, sweet boy, it will be because you want me to. Not against your better judgment, not in spite of my surname, and definitely not to annoy your aunt."
Stephen went red, but his voice was defiant. "Well, what was that, then?"
Crane shrugged. "You seemed tense.

K.J. Charles

#22. My phone buzzed so frequently it seemed to have an animal life of its own.

Zadie Smith

#23. I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer.

Ann Romney

#24. I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to believe yourself. Feelings seemed completely unreliable, like faulty gibberish scraped from a Ouija board.

Emma Cline

#25. Yudkin also fed high-sugar diets to college students and reported that it raised their cholesterol and particularly their triglycerides; their insulin levels rose, and their blood cells became stickier, which he believed could explain the blood clots that seemed to precipitate heart attacks.

Gary Taubes

#26. When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.

Tatum O'Neal

#27. There was a time when I had all of his attention and loved it. As much as I wanted him to leave me alone, I also liked how he seemed surprised. I liked the way he was looking at me right now. And then I remembered that I hated him.

Penelope Douglas

#28. Knight seemed to weigh the precision of every word he used, careful as a poet. Even his handwritten letters had gone through at least one draft, he said, mostly to remove unnecessary insults. Only necessary ones remained.

Michael Finkel

#29. When you are 20, 40 looks really old. When I was nearing 30, that seemed like a major milestone.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#30. Lincoln had entirely outgrown juvenile delight in religious argument. Talking with God seemed to the mature Lincoln more important than talking about Him.

Elton Trueblood

#31. He seemed a fool-everyone who didn't feel like me seems a fool.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#32. They seemed to want her approval, without having to know whether she approved or not.

Ayn Rand

#33. We fixed him just by telling him that he wasn't crazy, that the horrors he was seeing were real. He seemed oddly comforted by that. He was a lawyer.

David Wong

#34. When they slept together, she almost cried. He was a kisser, and he kissed and kissed. It seemed the kindest thing that had ever happened to her. He kissed and whispered and brought her a large glass of water when she asked for one.

Lorrie Moore

#35. And orgies. It seemed that everyone, at least once in their life, wanted to take part in an orgy.

Paulo Coelho

#36. It has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it provided souls only to such a trifling mass of bodies on our globe, like human bodies, when it could have given them to all, without interfering with its other ends.

Gottfried Leibniz

#37. That night, there were meteor showers. It seemed to me that even the sky was weeping. Two

Jodi Picoult

#38. Liza made a sudden decision. "I'll be your friend," she announced. she had trouble speaking the words but was glad once she had spoken them. She did not really want to be friends with an enormous rat of questionable sanity, but it seemed the right thing to say.

Lauren Oliver

#39. I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

Rick Moranis

#40. You think I'm boring, don't you?"Alec seemed amused as he leaned in closer to me. Exhausted, I laughed and put my hands on my hips, fighting to keep myself from making eye contact. "Yes. But you're pretty to look at, so as long as someone doesn't scratch your face off, you'll always have that!

Rachel Van Dyken

#41. He seemed to grasp a deep understanding of the unfolding drama in which he had been caught. He seemed to understand something that few of even the wisest men of his day understood ... God wanted a broken vessel.

Gene Edwards

#42. Because I was more often happy for other people, I got to spend more time being happy. And as I saw more light in everybody else, I seemed to have more myself. (250)

Victoria Moran

#43. It was our third game in five days. It seemed to have an impact on us.

David Blatt

#44. He thought I was a cop and deliberately didn't call me "officer" or "detective." I let it go. If I really had a professional title I'd have demanded it, but getting into an argument because he wouldn't call me "detective" when I wasn't one seemed counterproductive.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#45. They plunged into an enormous and eager conversation, first about books, then about shooting, in which the girl seemed to have an interest and about which she persuaded Flory to talk. She was quite thrilled when he described the murder of an elephant which he had perpetrated some years earlier.

George Orwell

#46. The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.

Albert Bushnell Hart

#47. It had seemed to him the ideal expression of an adult relationship, to have someone with whom you could discuss the mechanics of a shared existence.

Hanya Yanagihara

#48. That boy never seemed to smile and he wore long sleeves year-round, and I was not so different from him - we were both unable to get near the real life in life.

Catherine Lacey

#49. Try as I might, I couldn't destroy my spirit. And try as I might, I couldn't change who I was. I was left with what to me seemed to be the most difficult option: loving myself just the way I am.

Camryn Manheim

#50. A clean light soaked into the shaggy bark of a eucalyptus and it was a powerful thing to see, the whole tree glowed, it showed electric and intense, the branches ran to soft fire, the tree seemed revealed.

Don DeLillo

#51. It seemed to Rosa Lublin that the whole peninsula of Florida was weighted down with regret. Everyone had left behind a real life. Here they had nothing. They were all scarecrows, blown about under the murdering sunball with empty ribcages.

Cynthia Ozick

#52. My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I've pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible.

Alex Honnold

#53. We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.

Douglas Bader

#54. It seemed as though Theodore's passion for Alice far exceeded his genuine knowledge of her.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#55. I always seemed to fall in love with policemen.

Cynthia Payne

#56. He picked one at random, a luridly violent far-future crime novel about a detective who could seemingly exchange bodies at will, but the subject matter was alien to him and his attention drifted. It all seemed very far-fetched.

Richard K. Morgan

#57. I've been lucky enough to stand on both poles, but the place that seemed the remotest to me was Butugychag, a former gulag in Siberia. It is completely cut off from the rest of the world.

Michael Palin

#58. If a military life was long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of stark terror - as one of her instructors had said - then civilian life seemed to be long periods of boredom interrupted by moments of dismal reflection.

Elizabeth Moon

#59. The sign seemed like her fortune, her horoscope, her Magic 8 Ball answer.

Melissa Senate

#60. After the turmoil of the Second World War, my family ended up in Russian-occupied East Germany. When I attended fourth grade, I had to learn Russian as my first foreign language in school. I found this quite difficult because of the Cyrillic alphabet, but as time went on, I seemed to do all right.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#61. Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic capacity to underline and perfect events
the shifts in the seasons and the weather, the changes that run through people themselves. p.33

Tove Jansson

#62. Live and everyone would die. Die and everyone would live. It seemed like such a simple choice. But nothing is ever as simple as it seems.

Heather Brewer

#63. As a farmer, man himself became closely attached to the landscape, firmly rooted to the soil that supported him. At times the soil seemed bountiful and kindly and again stubborn and unfriendly, but it was always a challenge to man's cunning.

Charles Kellogg

#64. Submitting seemed to me a lot like giving up. If God gave us the strength to bail- the gumption to try and save ourselves- isn't that what he wanted us to do?

Jeannette Walls

#65. Sarah liked to think that night was the best time to work on staying silly and childish. Darkness always seemed more understanding about those sorts of things. More accommodating. Tonight

Cat Hellisen

#66. I heard my name once more, and now it seemed louder and closer. Turning to the sound, I willed my eyes to open. When had my eyes closed again? I was like a newborn kitten or something. Daimons across the nation shuddered in fear. Gods, I was lame.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#67. The days seemed to stretch out toward infinity, blank and humid, without purpose, and at night I was kept awake by the endless drone of mosquitoes and helicopters. (Why wars must be contested under such conditions I shall never understand. Is not death sufficient?)

Tim O'Brien

#68. Identity was everything, but it seemed I never had one. (Jessica)

Shannon A. Thompson

#69. I had no schedule, no plan for today or the next, or the week after. Everything in my life just seemed to kind of roll together, collect speed and go thundering downhill.

Shannon Olson

#70. Jack had been the love of her life and he was gone. It seemed now that there had never been bad times, though she knew that wasn't true.

Sara Sheridan

#71. Her [Odette's] eyes were beautiful, but so large they seemed to droop beneath their own weight, strained the rest of her face and always made her appear unwell or in a bad mood.

Marcel Proust

#72. Music, it seemed, could appear in many voices, and had all of the emotions and array of vocabulary as a human..

Esther Dalseno

#73. Sincere
that was the hell of it. From a distance, one's adversaries seemed fiends, but with a closer view, one saw the sincerity and it was as great as one's own. Perhaps Satan was the sincerest of the lot.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#74. Whenever I took a step forward, it seemed as though life was pushing me five steps back.

Jenni Rivera

#75. Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

Mariel Hemingway

#76. I put my hands behind my head and lay on my back, trying to hold on to the memories of my family. Their faces seemed to be far off somewhere in my mind, and to get to them I had to bring up painful memories.

Ishmael Beah

#77. It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#78. All America loses when any person is denied or forced out of a job because of sexual orientation. Being gay, the last time I thought about it, seemed to have nothing to do with the ability to read a balance book, fix a broken bone, or change a spark plug.

Bill Clinton

#79. What is your problem?" I asked, scooping the freezing mess out of my cleavage.
"We got unfinished business," he reminded me.
"My name's not Bill." He chuckled. "Yeah, I loved that movie. Shoulda brought a katana, but it seemed like an unfair advantage.

Karen Chance

#80. The vase was a solid, dark green stone carved into plain surfaces; the texture of its smooth curves provoked an irresistible desire to touch it. It seemed startling in that office, incongruous with the sternness of the rest: it was a touch of sensuality.

Ayn Rand

#81. He had always had a great tolerance which seemed the nicest thing about him if it were not the most sinister. All

Ernest Hemingway,

#82. Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation.

Renata Adler

#83. My desire for my own sitcom began as a little girl - I spent hours lying on my belly on the shag carpeting getting lost in the world of the '70s sitcom. All I wanted to do was run away to the Brady house, The Partridge Family bus; even the project on 'Good Times' seemed better than Clark, NJ.

Judy Gold

#84. Such loyalty is admirable, of course," said Scrimgeour, who seemed to be restraining his irritation with difficulty, "but Dumbledore is gone, Harry. He's gone."
"He will only be gone from the school when none here are loyal to him," said Harry, smiling in spite of himself.

J.K. Rowling

#85. Even if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is a primary fact of the inner life, the most difficult fact with which we must live.

Joyce Carol Oates

#86. You only live at once. Which seemed to her all the more reason to be careful, to take it easy, to have an ordinary life.

Lorrie Moore

#87. The hunter and the mermaid were so different from each other that it seemed to them, finally, that they were exactly alike; and they lived together and were happy.

Randall Jarrell

#88. All my life I'd told myself studying and reading and writing and working like mad was what I wanted to do, and it actually seemed to be true, I did everything well enough and got all A's, and by the time I made it to college nobody could stop me.

Sylvia Plath

#89. Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.

Laura Hillenbrand

#90. Corson wrote from Chicago that while he had never heard Hitler speak, he had read the speeches, and he seemed

Sigrid MacRae

#91. Each person seemed to have a destination, but Val was a piece of driftwood, spinning down a river, not even sure in what direction she was moving. But she knew how to make herself spin faster.

Holly Black

#92. I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.

Paul Simon

#93. I realized that I was alone, and might remain alone for the rest of my life. Even though I was only eight years old, it seemed like it was already too late to change and to prove to the other children that I was just like them.

Paulo Coelho

#94. I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.

Frances Mayes

#95. My disgraceful, wicked heart, thought Amy, is braver than the world. For a moment it seemed to Amy that there was nothing in the world she could not meet and vanquish. And though she knew this to be the most foolish idea, it excited and emboldened her further.

Richard Flanagan

#96. He seemed never to have acquired a skill that we all need: the ability to make another person worry about us.

Stephen Grosz

#97. Despite all the variables and advise, like love and marriage it seemed to me that learning to cast ought to be a lot easier than it was.

Jessica Maxwell

#98. I had to live, had no money, and therefore resorted to commercial prostitution.' Smith was introduced to the urban sex trade by a middle-aged black woman who seemed genuinely concerned for her well-being.

LaShawn Harris

#99. They (theological liberals)seemed to know what the answer was supposed to be and weren't much concerned with how to get there. They knew only that whatever answers the Fundamentalists came up with must be wrong.

Eric Metaxas

#100. Since childhood, since her early school days, New Year's Eve had possessed for her a mournful terror: she had elected it to represent the Nothingness which was her own life, the solid, cheerful festival which had seemed to be the lives of others.

Margaret Drabble