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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.

...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

We insist, it seems, on living.

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.691, Wordsworth Editions

The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.

"Vint Cerf: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 24, 2008.

I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen.

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Angelina Jolie seems like she cries a lot, which puts me off.

"The Situation with Tucker Carlson"for Jan. 11th"". "Scarborough Country" with Joe Scarborough, www.nbcnews.com. January 11, 2006.

It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest.

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

We censure others but as they disagree from that humor which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.

Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.126

The religion of one seems madness unto another.

Sir Thomas Browne (1658). “Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths”