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It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
– Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, That those who will not risk cannot win.
– Paul Jones
It seems to be a universal law; to the degree you give up your attachment to the material world, to the same degree you are filled with the joys of spirit.
– Harry Kovair
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
– John Steinbeck
It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
– Philip Adams
It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
– Joan Baez
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
– Zora Neale Hurston
It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values-- the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there's something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, a phenomenon rather than an epiphenomenon. I can't break the association of electric trash with the computer screen. Words on the screen give the sense of being just another passing electronic wriggle.
– John Updike
It seems to me we can never give up longing And wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, And we must hunger after them.
– George Eliot
It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.
– General Omar Nelson Bradley
It should be a very happy marriage --- they are both so much in love with him.
– Irene Thomas
It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
– Seneca
It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics.
– Denise Caruso
It simply comes down to this, Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying.
– Tim Robbins
It sometimes seems that we have only to solve a thing greatly to get it.
– Robert Collier
It stands to reason that in the absence of direction, any direction will do.
– Jonar Nader
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
– C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems. This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry--or laugh.
– Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund-raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg.
– William Hamilton
It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed.
– Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Seventh, Chapter 3
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
– Neil Armstrong
It sure does, Ben, it definitely does...this is definite...it specifically clearly, unequivocally says that Russia and other countries will enter into war and God will destroy Russia through earthquakes, volcanoes...
– Pat Robertson, when asked the question "Does the Bible specifically tell us what is going to happen in the future", "700 Club" D
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
– Eddie Cantor
It takes a big man to admit he's small
– Bryce Komenda

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