The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
Saint Ignatius

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
George Eliot

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
George Eliot

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
George Eliot

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
George Eliot

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
Peter De Vries

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

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
Willem de Kooning

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
Mario Andretti

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
Wanda Sykes

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
Thomas Carlyle

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
Daniel Webster

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.
Jack Paar

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
E. O. Wilson

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
Neil Young

Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.
Thomas Hardy

It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.
Bill Watterson

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.
Bill Watterson

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.
Vladimir Nabokov