#seemed

I started drumming around the same time I came across this part of American history. But there seemed to be a way forward playing drums. There didn't seem to be a way forward being fascinated by a piece of history. ↗

— Phil Collins

#american #american history #around #being #came

I was living in New York City and flat broke. My next door neighbor was an actor and he always seemed to be having more fun than I was. He convinced me to give acting a shot, but because of my shyness I was sure it would be a lost cause. ↗

— Joe Flanigan

#actor #always #because #broke #cause

They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense. ↗

— George Combe

#brute #brute force #chooses #england #few

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#cannot #discourage #ever #failures #had

My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#began #effort #end #fellow #fellow students

I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve. ↗

— Dick Fosbury

#athlete #even #evolve #i #imagined

I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment. ↗

— David Frum

#economic #economic issues #environment #environmental #environmental issue

Finally Germany's attack on Russia seemed to confirm that Russia was not shirking and was prepared to carry out a foreign policy with the risk of war with Germany. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#carry #confirm #finally #foreign #foreign policy

I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#certainly #did #far #french #go

Network heads don't seemed to be turned off by the men who get older. ↗

— Sharon Gless

#heads #men #network #off #older