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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.

Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.

Alain Badiou
Impossible, Situation, Seems
Alain Badiou (2002). “Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil”, p.121, Verso

It seems that everything is part of the maturing process

Onew
Mature, Process, Seems

I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.

Natalie Portman
Scared, Like You, Seems
Interview with Jake Gyllenhaal, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 4, 2009.

Seems you can't outsmart Mother Nature.

Mark Hyman, M.D.
Mother, Mother Nature, Seems
FaceBook post by Mark Hyman, MD from Jan 11, 2013

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

Paul Auster
Always Be Happy, Seems
Paul Auster (2008). “The New York Trilogy”, p.110, Faber & Faber

It's just that I am too old now to chase all the woman involved; which just seems a shame.

Lemmy Kilmister
Shame, Involved, Seems
Source: www.goldminemag.com

I don't care how impossible it seems.

David Byrne
Care, Impossible, Seems
David Byrne, Frank Olinsky, Talking Heads (Musical group) (1987). “What the songs look like”, HarperCollins Publishers

There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for.

Peter De Vries
Morning, Breakfast, Seems
Peter De Vries (1982). “Forever panting”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.

Mattie Stepanek
Far Away, Right Now, Seems
Mattie J. T. Stepanek (2002). “Hope through heartsongs”, Hyperion Books

The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others.

Publilius Syrus
Circumstances, Seems
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

Things always seem to end before they start

Lou Reed
Ends, Seems
Song: Hello It's Me

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

Cormac McCarthy
Suicide, Years, Seems
"Hollywood's Favorite Cowboy" by John Jurgensen, www.wsj.com. November 20, 2009.

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.

Casey Stoner
Stories, Seems
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Do not follow any road, but that which Christ trod. This road seems hard, but it is safe.

Saint Augustine
Safe, Christ, Seems

The older we get the more we seem to think that everything was better in the past.

Junichiro Tanizaki
Past, Thinking, Seems

Institutional practices, it seems, perpetuate themselves mostly by their invisibility.

James L. Farmer, Jr.
Practice, Invisibility, Seems

In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called!

Francisco de Quevedo
Things Are Not What They Seem, Seems

Nothing common can seem worthy of you.

Augustus
Common, Worthy, Seems

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

Russell Baker
Law, Wallets, Seems

Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless.

Hazrat Inayat Khan
Bridges, Form, Seems
Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.155, Shambhala Publications

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

Baltasar Gracian
Appearance, Jackets, Seems
Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

Sometimes when things seem to be going wrong, they are going right for reasons you are yet to understand.

Alan Cohen
Sometimes, Reason, Seems

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
Knows, Seems

Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.

Erma Bombeck
Women, Seems
Erma Bombeck (2011). “At Wit's End”, p.215, Fawcett

Do not try to seem wise to others.

Epictetus
Wise, Trying, Seems

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