The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
H. L. Mencken

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
Joseph Campbell

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.
Elizabeth Taylor

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
William Blake

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

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

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

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

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
James Madison

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

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
Giacomo Casanova

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
Lewis Mumford

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Earl Nightingale

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
George Orwell

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.
Gilbert K. Chesterton