#seemed

But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#assailed #environment #even #fantastic #feeling

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#effort #failure #glorious #hopeless #little

The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw. ↗

— Cal Hubbard

#call #coming #going #how #know

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#dissolution #faith #look #now #once

It was hard to make fun of him because he seemed to have so much fun making fun of himself. ↗

— James Barron

#fun #fun making #hard #him #himself

Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material. ↗

— Michael Behe

#easily #inanimate #life #material #produced

Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way. ↗

— Steven Chu

#details #efficient #efficient way #focus #i

In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#appears #concerned #decreasing #increasing #large

I wanted a woman who had the body and the power of a real pilot. I interviewed hundreds of woman, but Jessica just seemed perfect for the part. I couldn't get her out of my head. I continued to bother her and she finally gave in. ↗

— Rob Cohen

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But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems. ↗

— Paul Berg

#chemical #designing #events #far #far less