Top 100 What Seems Quotes
#1. Anytime there is a struggle between doing what is actually right and doing what seems right, then your ego is interfering with your decision.
Darren Johnson
#2. I'm certainly not a Robin Hood, I'm not that way. I don't want to come through, burn everybody for $200 a ticket and then they can't afford to come see me again. Plus, I just don't think it's right. I don't think we need that much money. I just do what seems like the logical thing to do.
Tom Petty
#3. of how we live our lives must encompass ALL scripture, not just what sounds good or what we are familiar with, or what seems easiest. It is a collection of teachings, examples, instructions, and even the corrective nature of the great I AM.
Brandy Dillon
#4. Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show
Strengthens and supports the rest.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#5. What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.
Henry Miller
#6. I don't know when the boys
began to walk away with parts of myself
in their sticky hands; when loving
became a process of subtraction. Or why,
having given up what seems so much,
I'm willing to lose even more - erasing
all this body's known, relearning it with you.
Melissa Stein
#7. The man in between waits between the two, not hearing the lie and not seeing the true. Unknowing what is and denying what seems, and there he will sleep, the man in between.
Neil Diamond
#8. It is strange that what seems at first alien becomes second nature in the blink of an eye.
Sara Sheridan
#9. Haven't lost your sense of humor after all but your sense of identity is what seems to have been misplaced. No. Wrong. You don't lose what you never had.
Judith Guest
#10. Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
Stanley Kubrick
#11. Darling, I wish I could help you. Try to remember this: to live, you need every experience. Some will come in glory and in beauty, and some in pain and what seems like ugliness. But - they are. Life consists of opposites in balance.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#12. What I am proud of, what seems so simply clear, is that feminism is a way to fight for justice, always in short supply.
Barbara Strickland
#13. What seems to be one of the disasters of our time is that we all appear to agree that the nation-state is the norm ... Whether the state be Marxist or capitalist, it makes no difference. The dominant ideology is that of sovereignty.
Jacques Ellul
#14. I know I drive some people crazy with what seems like ridiculous optimism, but it has always worked for me.
Jim Henson
#15. Sometimes what seems like the darkest step we've ever been on comes just before the brightest light we've ever experienced.
Stormie O'martian
#16. See clearly what seems intuitively obvious: entrepreneurs
Brink Lindsey
#17. On Holy Saturday I do my best to live in that place, that wax-crayon place of trust and waiting. Of accepting what I cannot know. Of mourning what needs to be mourned. Of accepting what needs to be accepted. Of hoping for what seems impossible.
Jerusalem Jackson Greer
#18. What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.
William Blake
#19. If you ever seem to be sliding back into the very thing you've already been set free of, don't even waste time getting discouraged. Often what seems like the same old thing coming back again may be a new layer surfacing that needs to come off. You're not going backwards - you are going deeper.
Stormie O'martian
#20. There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which a character is being characterized so that the reader comes to know him or her better.
Joyce Carol Oates
#21. What seems to sell books is good word-of-mouth, not promotion tours. I'm too old to believe that media promotion of a book really matters. What matters is how it will look 100 years from now, not how many copies are sold.
John Updike
#22. While not as common as they used to be, entire groups of people with what seems like an infinite amount of time on their hands to be angry about something that doesn't even affect them in the slightest, still exist.
Lindsey Ouimet
#23. That's what seems the most sad to me - that neither of them even think there's a possibility they can be together.
Jessi Kirby
#24. There is really no practical help that one can offer; it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own convictions, or working with one's own work; your style is what seems natural to you. It is a long process of discovery, one that never ends. I am working at it, and will be as long as I live.
Truman Capote
#25. To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#26. Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater.
Nicholas Evans
#27. What seems most likely is generally true.
Rae Foley
#28. Don't be a victim of the urgent. In the long run, much of what seems so pressing right now won't even matter. What you do with your children will matter forever.
Gary Chapman
#29. I didn't say anything. But I could have pointed out that most life-changing says happen without your expecting them. I have spent what seems like half my life expecting the worst. And it never happens. But on the day it does, it will knock me flat on my back anyway.
Nick Hornby
#30. You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really.
Ellen Barkin
#31. It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#32. your experience of conflict or peace is the result of your choice of thought system and not of what seems to be happening to the personal self.
Elizabeth Cronkhite
#33. Live a while in these books, learn from them what seems to you worth learning, but above all, love them.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#34. I just get up every day and do what seems like the most interesting, fun thing to do.
Jimmy Wales
#35. I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.
Ayn Rand
#36. Sometimes what seems so right turns out wrong and what seems so wrong turns out right. What do I call this phenomenon? Life.
Charles F. Glassman
#37. The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect an eccentric amount of black.
Joan Didion
#38. But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.
Haruki Murakami
#39. Then again, what seems like nothing in the eyes of the world, when properly valued and put to use, can be among the greatest riches.
Chris Gardner
#40. It isn't at all difficult for philosophy to begin. Far from it: it begins with nothing and can accordingly always begin. What seems so difficult to philosophy and the philosophers is to stop.
Soren Kierkegaard
#41. If you need help or advice, ask for it, but don't worry too much about hurting other people's feelings by not doing what they say. If your gut says no, trust it. Do what seems right.
Ariel Gore
#42. Practice even what seems impossible. The left hand is useless at almost everything, for lack of practice. But it guides the reins better than the right. From practice. 7.
Marcus Aurelius
#43. The questions to ask are what is moral, what is ethical, what is in line with your belief system, and what seems to make the most sense and cause the least amount of harm? Eat the foods that are in line with your sincere answers.
Robert Cheeke
#44. What seems solid to us is actually only a loose net held together by gravity. Everything in the Universe denies 'nothing'. To suggest an ending is the one absurdity -The Man in Black from Stephen King's The Gunslinger
Stephen King
#45. Grant me on earth what seems Thee best, Till death and Heav'n reveal the rest. - Isaac Watts
Marilynne Robinson
#46. I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your own eyes also. Is love content with that?
C.S. Lewis
#47. The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable.
Geneen Roth
#49. I can focus on what seems to be the most boring things for days at a time.
Thomas Massie
#50. When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.
Don DeLillo
#51. The only way is to teach with love, which requires looking beyond what seems, and remembering we create with our judgements.
Bryant McGill
#52. You are staggering beneath a weight which your Father would not feel. What seems to you a crushing burden, would be to him but as the small dust of the balance ... Come, then, soul! have done with fretful care, and leave all thy concerns in the hand of a gracious God.
from Morning 1-6
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#53. Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems like nothing at all.
Sarah Dessen
#54. If God is wiser that we His judgement must differ from ours on many things, and not least on good and evil. What seems to us good may therefore not be good in His eyes, and what seems to us evil may not be evil.
C.S. Lewis
#55. The effects of preaching are a miracle." A good preacher converts persons; he casts out devils from the hearts of those whom he changes from sin to holiness. This he could not do without power from God. But what seems good, is often not good.
J.C. Ryle
#56. It is my conviction that basic Reality is not all that perplexing. What seems difficult to assimilate are the manifold details of Reality, not its fundamental elements.
Richard Matheson
#57. Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.
George Lucas
#58. I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way.
Roy Lichtenstein
#59. You feel that if only you could make yourself sit down at a typewriter you could give shape to what seems merely a chain reaction of pointless disasters.
Jay McInerney
#60. What seems to be a problem or block is often really a Blessing in Disguise
Doreen Virtue
#61. What seems to tend to the church's ruin is often overruled to the ruin of the church's enemies, whose pride and malice are fed by Providence, that they may be ripened for destruction.
Matthew Henry
#62. Today, we've got what seems to me to be binary-choice politics: black and white, ones and zeros, either you are with me or against me. How did we get here?
David E. Hoffman
#63. I think of my actions every day: what seems to be important and what isn't.
James Rosenquist
#64. It is in the nature of 9 men out of 10 that what may be theirs for the picking up, they are much inclined to despise, and what seems to be out of reach, they instantly and fervently desire.
Georgette Heyer
#65. Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.
Gore Vidal
#66. For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cutting, what seems to be endless rewriting, and what is entailed in all that is patience, and waiting, and false starts, and dead ends, and really, in a way, nerve.
Deborah Eisenberg
#67. We sometimes see God better through out tears and broken hearts. What seems hopeless becomes blessing and miracles...
Dwight Robertson
#68. What seems over your head is always under His feet.
Johnny Hunt
#69. I've lived through what seems to most - and myself - many lives.
Linda Blair
#70. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.
Robert Fritz
#71. Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that laughter is an antidote to apprehension and panic.
Norman Cousins
#73. People do what seems easy and convenient, not what is best for them.
John Spence
#74. What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#75. That is what Reason can neither grasp nor endure, and what has offended all these men of outstanding talent who have been so received for so many centuries. Here they demand that God should act according to human justice, and do what seems right to them or else cease to be God.
Martin Luther
#76. What seems real one moment is fiction the next
and gone out of existence the moment after that.
Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth,
and change our only constancy.
David Budbill
#77. Time may enhance what seems simply dogged or lacking in fantasy now because we are too close to it, because it resembles too closely our own everyday fantasies, the fantastic nature of which we don't perceive. We are better able to enjoy a fantasy as a fantasy when it is not our own.
Susan Sontag
#78. Changing your mind and your attitude can move you into what seems like another dimension.
Bryant McGill
#79. It's wonderful how much you can learn by just being quiet and listening. Sometimes you even learn the truth - or what seems to be the truth.
Avi
#80. Sometimes at night I conduct interviews with myself.
What do you want?
I don't know.
What do you want?
I don't know.
What seems to be the problem?
Just leave me alone.
Jenny Offill
#81. We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.
Martin Luther
#82. What seems like weakness to a survivalist is actually a sign of strength to a spiritual warrior who longs to be authentic at all costs.
Jeff Brown
#83. What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#84. There is in this Universe much of what seems to be design.
Carl Sagan
#85. In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.
Henri Bergson
#86. What seems beautiful to me, what I should like to write, is a book about nothing, a book dependent on nothing external, which would be held together by the strength of its style, just as the earth, suspended in the void, depends on nothing external for its support.
Gustave Flaubert
#87. Man, the rational animal, can put up with anything except what seems to him irrational; whatever is rational is tolerable.
Epictetus
#88. Andoya is in a different world, set at the northern edge of Europe in what seems to be a time and weather of its own.
John Burnside
#89. Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust into the water.
Sherwood Smith
#90. When I'm writing, I'm just in it and trying to figure out what seems best.
Patrick Ness
#91. You are your own best teacher. My advice is to question all things. Seek for answers, and when you find what seems to be an answer, question that, too.
Louis L'Amour
#92. It seems to me that I have greater peace and am close to God when I am not "trying to be a contemplative," or trying to be anything special, but simply orienting my life fully and completely towards what seems to be required of a man like me at a time like this.
Thomas Merton
#93. In the past, I used to argue with those who didn't share my views. I felt this incredible need to 'make my point.' Now I live my life and do my best to be an example of what seems right to me.
Victoria Moran
#94. What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest.
Tom Hodgkinson
#95. We distance ourselves for protection,
Wear scarves when it's cold.
What seems most outlandish in our autobiography
Is what really happened.
Steve Abbott
#96. Had the jury convicted on proper instructions it would be the end of the matter. But juries are not bound by what seems inescapable logic to judges.
Robert H. Jackson
#97. Thank you, God, for the things you heal, the things you redeem, the things you refuse to leave just as they have been for what seems like forever.
Shauna Niequist
#98. Men display less self-doubt and lead with what seems always like a sense of force and direction. We are not as familiar with women leaders, and so we question their skills. As women, we always need to work harder to prove our competence.
Maureen Chiquet
#99. All of us have the capacity to attract to ourselves what seems to be missing in our lives.
Wayne Dyer
#100. What seems to be unspeakable weakness can sometimes be just distaste for the generally accepted morality.
Georges Bataille
