#seemed

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. ↗

— John Fowles

#i #me #metaphysical #move #mysterious

When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#american #american family #any #anything #doing

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society. ↗

— Helen Garner

#development #going #interest #like #me

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#established #firmly #francis #i #monarchy

It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#base #converted #creed #desert #fear

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#desert #indeed #inexpressible #seemed #thought

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#exquisite #had #like #music #passed

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

From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience. ↗

— Olivia Williams

#age #audience #fact #fun #get

The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#before #bin #even #irrelevant #killed