All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
Reinhold Niebuhr

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
James A. Baldwin

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
Rainer Maria Rilke

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
Jean-Paul Sartre

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Charles Darwin

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
Charles Darwin

It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.
Robert Collier

I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.
David Ogilvy

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.
Woodrow Wilson

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.
Chuck Palahniuk

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Virginia Woolf

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
Virginia Woolf

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.
Margaret Thatcher

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.
Marcel Proust

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.
Tupac Shakur

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.
Norman Borlaug

Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.
Lyndon B. Johnson

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Aldous Huxley