#seem

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#dissolution #faith #look #now #once

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue. ↗

— David Hume

#amuses #fancy #found #history #improves

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#depends #important #life #name #only

It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops. ↗

— Evan Hunter

#cops #crime #deal #i #lead

It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one. ↗

— Janis Ian

#down #get #human #human condition #i

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#agree #debt #everybody #measure #needs

The common agenda both sides seem to share is: Whatever works. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#both #both sides #common #seem #share

There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#here #interest #memos #more #old

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

#causes #does #flesh #form #most

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#being happy #cause #except #happiest #happiest people