#seem

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#even #everything #flat #sadness #seem

There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep. ↗

— Meg Greenfield

#court #disaster #forces #gods #listening

As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success. ↗

— Lewis Hallam

#attended #censured #consequence #expedition #fatal

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing. ↗

— Jan Hammer

#any #anything #business #get #i

I think I'm just more adaptable now, so danger, overall, seems less dangerous to me. ↗

— Heather Donahue

#danger #dangerous #i #i think #just

Styx has their own style of music, and I think that's justifiable, the same way that Asia and Yes have had - Yes particularly has a unique style that seems to have transcended all styles of music for 43 years. ↗

— Geoff Downes

#had #i #i think #justifiable #music

I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise. ↗

— Elizabeth Emken

#career politicians #checks #credible #definition #different

It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows. ↗

— William Empson

#off #put #refined #seems #someone

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. ↗

— Michael Ende

#because #calendars #clocks #eternity #exist

I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors. ↗

— King George V

#against #among #brethren #colonial #competitors