#seemed

Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#apparently #being #between #broad #changed

If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#door #ever #face #investigation #like

It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#court #get #had #i #me

That's something - you laugh about Eminem... It's funny, man, because I didn't like him when he first came out, ya know. It seemed like a big joke. But I think the guy's for real, and I like his lyrics! ↗

— Alan Vega

#because #big #came #eminem #first

I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians. ↗

— Luke Ford

#christians #did #good #good people #i

It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared. ↗

— James Forrestal

#did #even #gang #hitler #inconceivable

I grew up in the 90s in the time of grunge when if you didn't go on stage in jeans and a T shirt you weren't 'real.' That seemed ridiculous to me. ↗

— Jack White

#grew #grunge #i #jeans #me

I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#grew #i #possible #seemed #up

Mitt Romney - he had a Rock Hudson thing going, shoeblack hair and a well-hung resume, but even for a shameless, position-shifting phony he seemed a trifle insincere. ↗

— James Wolcott

#going #had #hair #hudson #insincere

The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors. ↗

— Cole Younger

#being #born #county #fighters #i