Quotes of: Seemed Keyword

Nothing came in reasonable measure, it seemed, not water or sunshine or sorrow. But joy, too, is immoderate sometimes, and that makes up for the rest.

The Moonflower Vine

There’s no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.

Many Waters

The good thing about problems is that it seems like there's only one way to get into them, but there's usually lots of ways out.

The Night Garden

The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms.

The Nothing Man

Networking isn’t synonymous with partying. If you’re doing it right, partying seems libraryesque in comparison.

#Networking is people looking for people looking for people

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

Notes from Underground

Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students.

Nevada

When a situation gets so bad that no solution seems possible there is left only murder and suicide, or both. These failing, one becomes a buffoon.

Nexus

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.

Open City

The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote.

Looking Backward: 2000-1887

I believe it all. If I seem not to, it is only that my joy is too great to let my belief settle itself.

The Last Battle

The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones.

London Calling

It seemed everyone knew their place in it, but I was in the mood where I would rather be alone and look a houseplants.

Love Letters to the Dead

so that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again...

To the Lighthouse

There were times when it seemed the different parts of him where not all under the same management.

The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz

An oppressive odor of decay now mingled with the stench of mold and seemed to clutch at the very breath in their lungs.

The Leopard Mask

Today the grass listens when I speak of love. It seems to me that this word isn't honest even with itself.

The Land of Green Plums

[...] and unfortunately most women did not seem to have the same urges. Or if they did, they wouldn't admit it. They probably didn't, anyway. But if they did they wouldn't admit it.

Lightning Rods

Dimitri seemed like the kind of guy you could throw into the wilderness and he would survive off anything.

Last Sacrifice

-To our new working relationship. May you be able to keep up with my demands... -And may you not seem too demanding.

Love Songs

Death seemed to lose its terrors and to borrow a grace and dignity in sublime keeping with the life that was ebbing away.

Lee The Last Years