Quotes of: Seemed Keyword

I'd never understood why anyone would want to live forever. It had always seemed to me that death lent life a certain poignancy, a necessary tension.

Dreamfever

Growing up, I never felt deprived. I was always happy. It seems only lately I've started seeing everything I didn't have.

The Distance Between Us

The stars are reflected from within the black water in the cistern. I find comfort in the omen I glean from this: light in the darkness, truth when it seems there is none.

The Dovekeepers

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

The End of the Affair

The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Because sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

I wasn't the only one hungry on the road, it seemed; a single bite—even a minor scratch—from one of the infected, and we were as good as dead. (And so the cycle repeats.)

Exodus in Confluence

When I started to climb, the sky seemed to be sunny and blue. But being up here on the oak tree it is cloudy and foggy.

Ema's Odyssey: Shamanism for Healing and Spiritual Knowledge

It seems you are the kind of squaw those Indians would like to have, but make sure they don't! One who keeps her men in line!

The Endearment

The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.

Eric

On a sunny Tuesday - for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday - six astronauts and one schoolteacher attempted to pierce the sky. Instead they touched the stars.

Everwild

Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story. Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end (life seems not to have either) and a meaning.

Een zoele zomer in Wyoming

For this decision, too, he had submitted to the overwhelming force of Sharon’s personality, whose longings and needs seemed inalienable rights, whereas Marcus’s were merely whims.

A Familiar Beast

Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.

A Fine Balance

Is It Frightening To Be Free?" "You said it." "You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?" "Seems to be a major human activity, yes.

Feet of Clay

At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

Fight Club

Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.

Fado

Life goes on, and deadlines arrive, even when it seems the world should stop out of respect for a shattered self-esteem.

Formerly Shark Girl

Life goes on, and deadlines arrive, even when it seem the world should stop out of respect for a shattered self-esteem.

Formerly Shark Girl

Always having what we want may not be the best good fortune Health seems sweetest after sickness, food in hunger, goodness in the wake of evil, and at the end of daylong labor sleep.

Fragments