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Seemingly Quotes (page 49)

Jodi Picoult quote: "Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once..."
Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board. Jodi Picoult
I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum. I am incapable of determining ultimate worth or worthlessness; I have no judgment about myself and my life. There is nothing I am quite sure about. I have no definite convictions - not about anything, really. I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation or something I do not... Carl Jung
R. A. Salvatore quote: "Never seem to have a Death Star lying around when you need..."
Never seem to have a Death Star lying around when you need one? -Han Solo R. A. Salvatore
History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody understands at the time--and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened. Hunter S. Thompson
Terry Prachett quote: "It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent..."
It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever,' he said. 'Have you though of going into teaching? Terry Prachett
Kennedy's issue didn't seem to be that she had been in jail, but that she had put on weight in jail. The food had been crappy, she'd told me, and it has been high on the carbohydrate count. "But I'm an emotional eater," she'd said, as if that were a terrible thing. "And I was real emotional in jail. Charlaine Harris
Augusten Burroughs quote: "I remember, no matter how impossible it seemed that any given..."
I remember, no matter how impossible it seemed that any given day would end, it always did. This one would, too. Augusten Burroughs
Although he, like all people, secretely enjoyed the smell of his own farts, the smell of his shit was somethig else. It was so bad as to seem evil in a moral way. Jonathan Franzen
Charlaine Harris quote: "I thought about making biscuits, but there seemed to be more..."
I thought about making biscuits, but there seemed to be more than enough calories on board. Charlaine Harris
He's one of those smart, drifty young people who, after certain deliberations, decides he wants to do Something in the Arts but won't, possibly can't, think in terms of an actual job; who seems to imagine that youth and brains and willingness will simply summon an occupation, the precise and perfect nature of which will reveal itself in its own time. Michael Cunningham
Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe in which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys. C. S. Lewis
Kathleen Winsor quote: "It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive."
It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive. Kathleen Winsor
He never believed in fate or providence, or the future being made by someone in the sky. Instead, at every instant, a trillion trillion possible futures; the pickiness of pure chance and physical laws seemed like freedom from the scheming of a gloomy god. Ian Mcewan
Now to sum it up,' said Bernard. 'Now to explain to you the meaning of my life. Since we do not know each other (though I met you once I think, on board a ship going to Africa), we can talk freely. The illusion is upon me that something adheres for a moment, has roundness, weight, depth, is completed. This, for the moment, seems to be my life. If it were possible, I would hand it you entire. I would break it off as one breaks off a bunch of grapes. I would say, "Take it. This is my life. Virginia Woolf
Don't be upset. Don't listen to me. I only meant that I am jealous of a dark, unconscious element, something irrational, unfathomable. I am jealous of your toilet articles, of the drops of sweat on your skin, of the germs in the air you breathe which could get into your blood and poison you. And I am jealous of Komarovsky, as if he were an infectious disease. Someday he will take you away, just as certainly as death will someday separate us. I know this must seem obscure and confused, but I... Boris Pasternak

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