However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.
Jim Valvano

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Daniel Webster

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
Quentin Crisp

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
Jose Marti

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
Taylor Caldwell

I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
Bill Watterson

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
Herman Melville

It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.
Gerald R. Ford

In their search for quality, people seem to be looking for permanency in a time of change.
John Naisbitt

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
Baltasar Gracian

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
James Baldwin

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
Galileo Galilei

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
Robert Peel

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.
Vivienne Westwood

In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable.
Margaret J. Wheatley

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.
Steve Allen

I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?
Billie Joe Armstrong

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
Billie Joe Armstrong