These seem quotes will inspire you. Seem, give the impression or sensation of being something or having a particular quality or used to make a statement or description of one’s thoughts, feelings, or actions less assertive or forceful.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging seem quotes, seem sayings, and seem proverbs.
Best Seem Quotes
- “Faith means believing the unbelievable.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
- “Limit or eliminate late-night computer and television viewing. A computer or TV screen may seem much dimmer than a light bulb, but these screens often fill your field of vision, mimicking the effects of a room filled with light.” ~ Andrew Weil
- “Some things are so impossible, so fantastic, that when they happen, you are not at all surprised. Their sheer impossibility has made you imagine them too many times in your head, and when you find yourself on that longed-for moonlit path, it seems unreal but still, somehow, familiar. You dreamed of it, of course; you know it like a memory.” ~ Andrew Sean Greer
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“As so often in life, things are not always what it seems.” ~ Paulo Coelho
- “For both of us, I think, it had to do with our weakened power to love. It is strange that enslavement should have that effect – not just the fantastic degradation, not just the fear and the boredom and all the rest, but also the layered injustice, the silent injustice. So all right. We’re back where we started. To you, nothing – from you, everything. They took it from me, it seems, for no reason, other than that I value it so much.” ~ Martin Amis
- “The fact would seem to be, if in my situation one may speak of facts, not only that I shall have to speak of things of which I cannot speak, but also, which is even more interesting, but also that I, which is if possible even more interesting, that I shall have to, I forget, no matter. And at the same time I am obliged to speak. I shall never be silent. Never.” ~ Samuel Beckett
- “I can’t ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom… I don’t think that it’s healthy.” ~ Florence Welch
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“It doesn’t seem to be worth wasting a lot of energy on attempting to rewrite the past.” ~ Douglas Tompkins
- “My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “The sound must seem an echo to the sense.” ~ Alexander Pope
- “The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything you’ll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices of everyday life…..Each decision seems as insignificant as a left turn on an unfamiliar road when you have no destination in mind. But the decisions accumulate until you realize one day that they’ve made you the man that you are.” ~ Kristin Hannah
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“Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
- “it seems Montgomery could not help himself when it came to this vase. I’m afraid he has a weakness for beautiful things and has been known to relocate an item if he feels it is not being accorded the proper appreciation. Once he ‘relocated’ an ancient sculpture from the home of another archangel.” ~ Nalini Singh
- “A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems sweet, and gentle, and proper, and not as silly as it really is.” ~ Anton Chekhov
- “But I can’t bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at – to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who’ve really met violence, who’ve been raped or bashed.” ~ Helen Garner
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“You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I’ve ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?” ~ Jubal Early
- “That rock ‘n’roll, eh? That rock’n’roll, it just won’t go away. It might hibernate from time to time, sink back into the swamp. I think the cyclical nature of the universe in which it exists demands that acquiesce to some of its rules. But it’s always waiting there, just around the corner,” he added. “Ready to make its way back through the sludge and smash through the glass ceiling, looking better than ever. Yeah, that rock’n’roll, it seems like it’s faded away sometimes, but it will never die. And there’s nothing you can do about it.” ~ Alex Turner
- “It just seems so fundamental to me. I’m able to marry the person I wanted to marry. That’s the fundamental human imperative. Those of us who have been lucky enough should expand these rights to others.” ~ Chelsea Clinton
- “Of course, I would like to know what [Sony and Microsoft] do with their machines, but there is no game that I feel the need to go see. So far, from what I’ve seen on the show this year, there does not seem to be any games that I would like to have created myself.” ~ Shigeru Miyamoto
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“Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing.” ~ Anthony Burgess
- “When we seem to have won or lost in terms of certainties, we must, as literature teachers in the classroom, remember such warnings — let literature teach us that there are no certainties, that the process is open, and that it may be altogether salutary that it is so.” ~ Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- “Deconstruction seems to offer a way out of the closure of knowledge. By inaugurating the open-ended indefiniteness of textuality by thus ‘placing in the abyss’ (mettre en abime), as the French expression would literally have it-it shows us the lure of the abyss as freedom. The fall into the abyss of deconstruction inspires us with as much pleasure as fear. We are intoxicated with the prospect of never hitting bottom” ~ Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- “I’m not a very fancy person. I’ve been a writer a long time, and right now ‘The Hunger Games’ is getting a lot of focus. It’ll pass. The focus will be on something else. It’ll shift. It always does. And that seems just fine.” ~ Suzanne Collins
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“I’ve always felt that there’s a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that’s the point where I know the composition is finished.” ~ David Tudor
- “Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and contours, but it can never be used for the same purpose. Art teaches nothing about life, just as life teaches us nothing about art.” ~ Morton Feldman
- “I’m interested in things which suggest the world rather than express the personality… The most conventional thing, the most ordinary – it seems to me that those things can be dealt with without having to judge them; they seem to me to exist as clear facts, not involving aesthetic hierarchy.” ~ Jasper Johns
- “Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.” ~ Justin Guarini
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“And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.” ~ Patricia Hewitt
- “But music seems to me to be the most closely identified with my soul. I mean, I feel that it’s the best for me. It just gets into the bloodstream so quickly, for no reason at all. You can close your heart, and you can sleep even with your eyes closed, but you can never close your ears.” ~ Jeff Buckley
- “We Die Young is about gang violence. That was something that was happening in Seattle, something that kinda opened our eyes. It just seemed like things were getting out of hand. Incidents where kids were getting shot, and getting their tennis shoes ripped off their dead bodies. It just seems like these kids are dying at younger and younger ages and getting involved in gang activity.” ~ Layne Staley
- “If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.” ~ Harriet Ann Jacobs
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“Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.” ~ Alan Watts
- “Modern society seems to be a celebration of all the things that lead away from the Truth, make Truth hard to live for, and discourage people from even believing that it exists.
And to think that all this springs from a civilization that claims to adore life, but actually starves it of any real meaning; that endlessly speaks of making people “happy”, but in fact blocks their way to the source of real joy.” ~ Sogyal Rinpoche - “The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the Palestinians, and their attempts to destroy Palestinian society within Israel and the occupied territories, reveals them as basically Nazis with beards and black hats.” ~ Norman Finkelstein
- “The Americans may think they have ‘liberated’ Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves – they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty – seem to have a different idea what liberation means.” ~ Robert Fisk
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“It seems we all agree that training the body through exercise, diet, and relaxation is a good idea, but why don’t we think about training our mind?” ~ Sakyong Mipham
- “The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapor, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that may I die if I were to change places with the Persian king.” ~ Johann Joachim Becher
- “It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens, how confusions that seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.” ~ Carl Rogers
- “Watching the Dallas Cowboys perform, it is not difficult to believe that coach Tom Landry flew fourengines bombers during World War II. He was in B17 Flying Fortresses out of England, they say. His cautious, conservative approach to every situation and the complexity of the plays he sends in do seem to reflect the philosophy of a pilot trained to doggedly press on according to plans laid down before takeoff. I sometimes wonder how the Cowboys would have fared all this years had Tom flown fighters in combat situations which dictated continuously changing tactics.” ~ Len Morgan
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“When it seems impossible like nothing is going to work, you are usually just a few millimeters away from making it happen.” ~ Tony Robbins
- “We are called to be strong companions and clear mirrors to one another, to seek those who reflect with compassion and a keen eye how we are doing, whether we seem centered or off course … we need the nourishing company of others to create the circle needed for growth, freedom and healing.” ~ Wayne Muller
- “I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “…there seems to be a correlation between the intensity of the official attacks on gold and the severity of monetary crises.” ~ Hans F. Sennholz
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“An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.” ~ Alan Greenspan
- “Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn’t. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry. It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.” ~ Alan Greenspan
- “My efforts to prevent closing of the gold window-working through Connally, Volcker, and Shultz-do not seem to have succeeded. The gold window may have to be closed tomorrow because we now have a government that is incapable, not only of constructive leadership, but of any action at all. What a tragedy for mankind!” ~ Arthur F. Burns
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“February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.” ~ Shirley Jackson
- “When caring for your neighbor becomes a compulsory obligation imposed by government instead of voluntary, charity turns to confiscation and freedom to achieve to involuntary servitude. To liberals, compassion seems to be defined by how many people are dependent on the government; to conservatives, it’s defined by how many people no longer need help. One promotes dependence, the other freedom, responsibility and achievement.” ~ Star Parker
- “You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your ‘plans’.” ~ Jay Maisel
- “It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose in such a way that there’s nothing left of truth.” ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
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“…compelling outdoor imagery always combines some kind of personal connection to nature and skillful technique. The former seems to be a form of grace, and the latter an act of the will.” ~ George B. Ward
- “The very best gift… is that anyone can experience those unexpected twinkles of joy that make a magical moment. At these moments, you feel true, deep joy because of a great new insight, a beautiful prospect, or a glimpse into the radiance of another soul. They are the magic moments when life seems better than you ever realized.” ~ Richard M. Eyre
- “If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasize its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasize how difficult it is!” ~ Johnny Ball
- “Perhaps the earth can teach us as when everything seems dead And later proves to be alive” ~ Pablo Neruda
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“It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.” ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
- “It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term” ~ Peter L. Berger
- “Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.” ~ Bill Hybels
- “I am very annoyed about this issue. Why can’t it be a choice? Why is that any less legitimate? It seems we’re just ceding this point to bigots who are demanding it, and I don’t think that they should define the terms of the debate. I also feel like people think I was walking around in a cloud and didn’t realize I was gay, which I find really offensive. I find it offensive to me, but I also find it offensive to all the men I’ve been out with.” ~ Cynthia Nixon
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“Society in General Always Seems to Honor its Living Conformists & its Dead Troublemakers” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “We had convinced ourselves that conditions wouldn’t be right for seeing spokes on the lit side of the rings until about 2007, … But this finding seems to be telling us that conditions on the dark side of the rings are almost as good right now for seeing spokes.” ~ Carolyn Porco
- “It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.” ~ William Empson
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“There is an element of anger among women who’ve been raped. There’s certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.” ~ Nicholas D. Kristof
- “Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.” ~ Bernard DeVoto
- “It’s not that Egypt doesn’t have a recipe for a democratic transition. It seems to lack even the basic mental ingredients.” ~ David Brooks
