Be content to seem what you really are.
Marcus Aurelius
People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.
Paul Auster
No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much... →
We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.
Emanuel Ax
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
Irving Babbitt
Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
F. Lee Bailey
When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.
Pearl Bailey
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
Russell Baker
What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees... →
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
James Baldwin