#seem

When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#arrived #capital #contrive #could #despair

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#burdens #could #heavy #i #i always

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

#did #does #down #economics #else

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

#conclude #equivalent #eyes #facts #female

A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable. ↗

— Nick Johnson

#now #seemed #starting #things #thinkable

I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were. ↗

— Nick Johnson

#career #career opportunities #finance #going #i

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#care #escape #fills #general #humanity

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#dimly #dreams #man #realities #seems

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#bra #feminine #getting #guns #hackers

Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#anything #book #close #dire #fantasy