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In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
Few people seem to realize that the resurrection of Jesus is the cornerstone to a worldview that provides the perspective to all of life.
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
If there is one thing that COVID-19 has shown us, it's the little things that we likely took for granted that made our lives seem normal.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.
Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.
Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.
On first acquaintance, the mystery of the Mayans of Guatemala can seem simply bizarre, as it was when I first encountered Maximon the god.
Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step.
The average billboard has no more than eight words. It takes a lot of effort to make a beer, rice, or shampoo seem special in eight words.
I've always believed in working hard, and I'm grateful that people seem to connect with the kinds of stories I'm passionate about telling.
I grew up in the Midwest, where people seem to be friendly and nice to one another. There is less stress than in some of the other cities.
Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.
Maybe the biggest thing that I've learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don't seem like they can.
Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.
I think that it's okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn't about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.
As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.
My biggest flaw is probably my attention span or lack thereof. And while it might seem contradictory, my biggest strength is my work ethic.
I feel like 'Birds in the Trap' seem united; it's just metaphor for ones in their box that are stuck and can't get their creative idea out.
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.
When I get really down, I remember that we all share 99.99 per cent of our DNA with Beyonce. And suddenly, the world doesn't seem too bleak.
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.
There are too many organisations - and the BBC is a fabulous organisation - that seem to think it's OK to badger, hector and threaten people.
One of the key emotions a lot of people seem to be feeling is disillusionment, and what I try to do as a lyricist is touch on these emotions.
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.
The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.
Miracles seem to attest to the presence of a loving and compassionate God, one who wants to help us, who wants to speak to us and encourage us.
Honours seem to be the nature of British life. It's horrible. Maybe I'm mad, but the older I get, the less I want to have honours loaded on me.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
I seem to have this need to belong to some church. I get worried on Sunday mornings.
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.