#seems

The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity. ↗

— Lucinda Franks

#eternity #itself #mantelpiece #meaning #mind

I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#best #i #i think #seems #still

It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.' ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#empire #evil #evil empire #hawk #his

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#day #deeply #ever #every #every day

I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill. ↗

— Patty Duke

#bigger #business #crime #going #i

I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job - I mean, since she's been grown up. ↗

— Teresa Heinz

#bush #calm #ever #eye #good

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#envy #i #me #merely #no respect

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#disappearing #human #human nature #i #i see

That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#aspect #business #go #good #i

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#comforting #disproportion #only #reflect #seems