#seems

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. ↗

— Jane Austen

#life #quick #seems #succession

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred. ↗

— Roger Nash Baldwin

#cannot #consistently #deliberately #denial #everything

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems. ↗

— Alec Baldwin

#get #i #idea #less #older

I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living. ↗

— Christian Bale

#become #depending #end #i #life

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down. ↗

— Tori Amos

#before #could #down #everything #feeling

Everything feels like you're in slow motion and everything you do seems like it's about two or three plays of what everybody else is doing. ↗

— Tony Parker

#doing #else #everybody #everybody else #everything

No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#any #consumed #defense #designs #divert

Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty. ↗

— Edmund Pendleton

#battle #hopes #our #peace #pervaded

Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#house #leadership #now #party #republican

In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively. ↗

— James Schuyler

#apt #author #because #comment #consider