Quotes of: Seemed Keyword

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Adam Smith

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.

Frans de Waal

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

Irving Babbitt

It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day.

Jonathan Davis

There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing.

Karel Reisz

Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds.

Ron Fournier

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Roman Polanski

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

Cate Blanchett

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Don Herold

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

Grace Paley

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Izaak Walton

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It seems to be unfathomable to people that I just happen to be 49 and look good. I am totally capable of accepting myself.

Sharon Stone

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Swami Sivananda

'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'

Adam McKay

Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.

Trent Reznor

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.

Enya

It seems unfair that anyone can set up on Twitter using my name, or the name of any famous person, without any checks at all.

Shirley Eaton