#seems

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #seems




It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.


Terry Pratchett


#alone #alzheimer #brave #cancer #disease

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.


Jack Prelutsky


#i #i can #into #just #learned

Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up.


Jeff Probst


#genre #harder #here #how #i

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.


Pliny the Elder


#lust #mankind #possess #rather #seems

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


Arthur Schopenhauer


#arbitrary #chance #inflicted #nature #never

A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.


W. G. Sebald


#concern #encapsulate #first #glance #quite

If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings.


Jane Siberry


#ask #asking #beings #breathing #flowing

The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.


Brian Sibley


#get #memories #older #pass #quicker

This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.


Charles Ferguson Smith


#force #head #neither #nor #seems

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.


Dodie Smith


#contemplation #costs #luxury #nothing #only