Seems Quotes - Page 27

• Women are racing all the time to try to have a perfect house and perfect kids and be a perfect cook. Men, somehow, for whatever reason, seem to be better able to pick and choose, to focus on things they like and that are important to them, and let the other things go.

  Debora Spar

  Kids, Men, Perfect

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• Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

  Roland Joffe

  Thinking, Scientist, Intuitive

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• I’ve never wanted to be called an artist. The term itself seems old-fashioned. It’s a term that does not relate to modern times. And it’s too confining. What I love about fashion is its accessibility and its democracy. Everyone wears it, and everyone relates to it.

  Miuccia Prada

  Fashion, Art, Doubt

  "An improbable conversation: new Met exhibition attempts to mix and match Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada" by Grace-Yvette Gemmell, www.politico.com. April 11, 2012.

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• Unbelievable as it may seem, one-third of all vegetables consumed in the United States come from just three sources: french fries, potato chips, and iceberg lettuce.

  Marion Nestle

  Vegetables, May, Potato Chips

  Marion Nestle (2010). “What to Eat”, p.63, Macmillan

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• I might have speculated on my chances of going to Heaven; but candidly I did not care. I could not have wept if I had tried. I had no wish to review the evils of my past. But the past did seem to have been a bit wasted. The road to Hell may be paved with good intentions: the road to Heaven is paved with lost opportunities.

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard

  Past, Opportunity, Evil

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2013). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913”, p.238, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion

  Isaac Albeniz

  Art, Want, Emotion

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• Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to take over all the rest of mathematics. In one respect this last point is accurate.

  David Mumford

  Math, Lasts, Esoteric

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• When we’re unaware that we share the power to co-create reality with the universe itself, that power slips away from us, causing our dream to become a nightmare. We begin to feel we’re the victims of an unknown and frightening creation that we’re unable to influence, and events seem to control and trap us. The only way to end this dreadful reality is to awaken to the fact that it too is a dream—and then recognize our ability to write a better story, one that the universe will work with us to manifest.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Dream, Writing, Reality

  Alberto Villoldo (2010). “Courageous Dreaming: How Shamans Dream the World Into Being”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

  Henry James Sumner Maine

  Law, Events, Aristocracy

  Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.9, Beard Books

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• If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.

  John Tillotson

  Men, Use, Benefits

  John Tillotson (1717). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...”, p.696

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• Not only are we harried by time, we seem unable, despite a thousand generations, even to get used to it. We are always amazed at it–how fast it goes, how slowly it goes, how much of it is gone. Where, we cry, has the time gone? We aren’t adapted to it, not at home in it. If that is so, it may appear as a proof, or at least a powerful suggestion, that eternity exists and is our home.

  Sheldon Vanauken

  Powerful, Home, Suggestions

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• We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age.

  Peter Akinola

  Grief, Missionary Zeal, Age

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• What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Real, Science, Thinking

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• It's perhaps not so much how your amygdala is tuned that makes you politically extreme, but that your intrinsic nervousness makes you more responsive to things that might seem to threaten your particular social world. Education probably plays an important role in dampening that response by allowing the brain's frontal lobes (where much of the brain's conscious work goes on) to counteract the emotional responses with a more considered view, so explaining why education is invariably the friend of liberal politics.

  Robin Dunbar

  Emotional, Views, Play

  Robin Dunbar (2011). “How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Dunbar’s Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks”, p.170, Harvard University Press

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• The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Democracy, Dictator, Judgment

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• Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere connection.

  Sherry Turkle

  Sacrifice, Caring, Technology

  "TED2012 live - day three from Long Beach". www.theguardian.com.

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• Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.

  Sherry Turkle

  Giving, Doe, Texting

  Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.164, Basic Books

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• Much of Hamlet is about the precise kind of slippage the mourner experiences: the difference between being and seeming, the uncertainty about how the inner translates into the outer, the sense that one is expected to perform grief palatably. (If you don’t seem sad, people worry; but if you are grief-stricken, people flinch away from your pain.)

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Pain, Grief, Differences

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.80, Penguin

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• If you *stop* putting off homemaking until your hope of marriage develops into a reality, and *start* to develop an interesting home right now, it seems to me two things will happen: first, you will develop into the person you could be as you surround yourself with things that express your own tastes and ideas; and second, as you relax and become interested in areas of creativity, you will develop into a more interesting person to be with.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Home, Creativity, Reality

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• It seems to me that whether it is recognized or not, there is a terrific frustration which increases in intensity and harmfulness as time goes on, when people are always daydreaming of the kind of place in which they would like to live, yet never making the place where they do live into anything artistically satisfying to them. Always to dream of a cottage by a brook while never doing anything to the stuffy house in the city is to waste creativity in this very basic area, and to hinder future creativity by not allowing it to grow and develop through use.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Dream, Creativity, Frustration

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• There's no reason to trade insults. We have our way of life and they have theirs. I wouldn't live as they do, but disrespect seems pointless. I'm sure there are good people among them.

  Alexei Panshin

  People, Disrespect, Way

  Alexei Panshin (1982). “Rite of passage”, Pocket

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• Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.

  Robert Fortune

  Art, Struggle, Yield

  Robert Fortune (1863). “Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China ...”, p.113

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• It seems totally unfair that the way we look matters so much. I mean, why can't we just get over this gotta-be-thin-and-beautiful thing? Why can't we just accept ourselves and others for what we are?

  Melody Carlson

  Beautiful, Mean, Looks

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• Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?

  Kirby Larson

  Sight, Long, Faces

  Kirby Larson (2007). “Hattie Big Sky”, p.19, Yearling

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• It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.

  Kirby Larson

  Heart, Deeper, Millions

  Kirby Larson (2007). “Hattie Big Sky”, p.255, Yearling

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