#seems

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic. ↗

— Simone Weil

#any #arts #considers #critic #every

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. ↗

— Rebecca West

#astrology #astronomy #before #like #military

The way I wanted to write it, is with a hero, or sort of a pure character who was the protagonist. And the antagonists were these demonic evil children, cause when you're a kid, seven or eight years old, and you're looking at the world around you - everything seems black or white, good or bad. ↗

— John Wozniak

#bad #black #black or white #cause #character

The fact is I've been in Massachusetts for the last two weeks, and it seems over the last few days that the price is increasing by the hour at the pump, so there needs to be an aggressive investigation. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#been #days #fact #few #hour

I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals. ↗

— Fred Melamed

#adherence #am #because #grounded #hard

It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do. ↗

— Gary Numan

#carefully #correctly #how #i #i always

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#ask #disingenuous #filled #history #seems

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#does #get #knocked #mean #out

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them. ↗

— Barack Obama

#am #america #another #around #believe

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared. ↗

— Barack Obama

#argument #because #clearly #country #day