All Quotes

It seems to me that if God calls us to anything it's to a life of integrity.
‐‐ Gene Robinson

It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.
‐‐ Jon Voight

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
‐‐ John Steinbeck

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'
‐‐ Ludwig Wittgenstein

It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
‐‐ E. L. Doctorow

It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning of a new recognition of dogma: isn't it rather tremendous?
‐‐ Ruth Pitter

It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.
‐‐ Billy Connolly

It seems to me that it's every man's obligation to make what contribution he can. You live each day as best you can. That, to me, is what makes life interesting.
‐‐ Rod McKuen

It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man.
‐‐ Pierre Loti

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.
‐‐ Frederick the Great

It seems to me that many of the belligerent Jewish movements that were built upon hatred of Arabs - and I'm not only talking about Lieberman, but within the Likud as well - grew out of the patronizing socialist attitude that said, 'They'll be there, and we'll be here.'
‐‐ Reuven Rivlin

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.
‐‐ Robert E. Howard

It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
‐‐ Aaron Sorkin

It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. You look for the good in the flawed people and vice versa, and then try and make them appealing in some way.
‐‐ Aidan Gillen

It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.
‐‐ Stuart Woods

It seems to me that most things that are being made are designed for young people. There aren't that many depictions of melancholic older people, even though they form a growing proportion of the population.
‐‐ Peter Capaldi

It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I don't want to do that.
‐‐ Chris Van Allsburg

It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
‐‐ Val McDermid

It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.
‐‐ John Cusack

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
‐‐ Barney Frank

It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience).
‐‐ James Schuyler

It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've really become just comedies where the love story is only there as a spine to hang the jokes on.
‐‐ Nigel Cole

It seems to me that's the only way you can have a truly creative aggregate of people is if they're all contributing in different ways.
‐‐ Neil Peart

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
‐‐ Anne Tyler

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.
‐‐ Friedrich August von Hayek

It seems to me that Sotheby's is very much like the British monarchy: an old and apparently very venerable institution which is in fact very nimble on its feet, an institution invested with a great deal more self-interest than the public image would suggest.
‐‐ Robert Lacey

It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves.
‐‐ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It seems to me that the Conservatives neither recognise the scale of the living standards crisis facing British families nor offer credible answers as to how the British economy or British society can be better in the future.
‐‐ Douglas Alexander

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
‐‐ David Attenborough

It seems to me that the novel as a medium has a very low signal-to-noise ratio. By which I mean: there are a lot of novels published, but the vast majority of them don't represent major contributions to the medium.
‐‐ Lev Grossman

It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It recognises no nationality; it discourages unworthy national feeling and prejudice.
‐‐ Charles Glover Barkla

It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.
‐‐ Jeremy Paxman

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality.
‐‐ Francoise Sagan

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
‐‐ Joan Baez

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
‐‐ Zora Neale Hurston

It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
‐‐ Barbara Mandrell

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves.
‐‐ Edward Bond

It seems to me that we live in dangerous times all over the world: we have the technology to remember everything but a desire to forget the troubling and to seek the safety of numbness. Fiction can do something about that.
‐‐ Romesh Gunesekera

It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'
‐‐ Zadie Smith

It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.
‐‐ Alexander McCall Smith

It seems to me that whatever path you choose to take, in the end its up to each of us to try, test and live what we find out, to apply it and see what actually works, and that's the exciting and challenging part of this very real adventure.
‐‐ Linus Roache

It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.
‐‐ Rachel Cusk

It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.
‐‐ Jonathan Coe

It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.
‐‐ Paul Begala

It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption.
‐‐ Jasmine Guy

It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.
‐‐ Paul Muldoon

It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'
‐‐ Pat Robertson

It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.
‐‐ Maggie Smith

It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space.
‐‐ Clifford D. Simak