#seem

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. ↗

— Elizabeth Bishop

#disaster #filled #hard #intent #losing

Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness. ↗

— Ronald Blythe

#death #die #drag #final #itself

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress. ↗

— Frank Pittman

#distrust #make #ourselves #parents #seem

I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer. ↗

— Johannes Brahms

#i #me #more #ought #ponder

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#brave #coward #either #him #man

After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#creating #everything #goes #into #lot

I think most people played both variants and regular games. It was a period when variants were very popular and there were a lot more variants being played at that time. Every week practically, it seemed someone would publish a new variant in a zine. ↗

— Fred Davis

#both #every #games #i #i think

The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means. ↗

— Robert Fisk

#booty #came #cars #city #different

It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#around #audiences #awful #because #change

I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#appealing #famous #famous people #i #kind