When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.
What is the Obama Doctrine? It seems to be one of disengagement, to try to ignore the hot, religious, dry, poor countries from Algeria to Pakistan.
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.
In my experience, nothing worthwhile has ever really been all that easy. But it certainly has been worthwhile regardless how difficult it seemed.
They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load, And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed So low for long, they never right themselves.
And on the worn book of old-golden I brought not here to read, it seems, but hold And freshen in this air of withering sweetness;
As for the once-revolutionary 'Agon,' after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language of ballet that it now seems almost conventional.
When my problems seem overwhelming and impossible to solve, I hold fast to these facts: God is real, He is right, and He cares.
The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where, as it seems, no human foot has been.
It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.
The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.
What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be so separate as human beings.
My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room.
He seemed never to have acquired a skill that we all need: the ability to make another person worry about us.
What surprised me most while writing 'The Monogram Murders' was that everything I needed seemed to arrive in my head exactly when I needed it.
When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.
The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.
The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.
Smartphones are so fabulous in so many ways that it seems daft to be nostalgic about the days when an image did not go round the world in a nanosecond.
When you're young your reality is accepted by most. When you're older, your reality changes and that seems to upset most people.
