Seems Quotes - Page 16
There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.
William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.179
We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.
"Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, ch. 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 27, 1989.
Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed.
William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”
...It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”
It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.
William Empson (2000). “The complete poems”, Lane, Allen
Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.691, Wordsworth Editions
Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.49, University of Michigan Press
The villainous sun and the starved bank did not seem related—yet.
Timothy Egan (2006). “The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over.
Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.126
Sir Thomas Browne (1658). “Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths”