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Seems Quotes - Page 6

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan

An obsession with control generally seems to reflect a fear of uncertainty.

Henry Mintzberg (2000). “The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning”, p.202, Pearson Education

The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.

Dale Carnegie, Dorothy Carnegie (1977). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “The Summing Up”, p.50, Random House

I'm always perversely attracted to characters that seem one thing, but are ultimately revealed as another...

"Tony Goldwyn Talks SCANDAL, Directing JUSTIFIED and GREY’S ANATOMY, and a Drama He’s Developing". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2012.

Now it's clear to me/ that everything you see/ ain't always what it seems.

Song: Wide Awake, Album: Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection, 2012

Seems as unfounded ... to say there isn't a God as to say there is.

James Agee (2008). “A Death in the Family”, p.142, Penguin

Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.

"Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel

Swami Vivekananda (2016). “My Life and Mission”, p.20, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)