It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should stop at the door of the church or mosque.
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
The level on which Japan seems to have picked up on my music seems to be on a more abstract level.
Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can't figure out the story. We don't know what part we're supposed to play or what the plot is.
I personally would rather raise my child in New York. It seems like it would be easier to make sure she or he gets a whole bunch of experience and understanding of the world. But, people in general think it's easier to raise a kid when you don't have so much stuff in your face.
When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded.
I come from a position where it seems like I have an addictive quality to everything in my life.
In very simple language, Morrie always seems to be able to explain something that other people would take a chapter for, you know.
It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.
Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently it's the most difficult thing in the world.
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
I've said it before - and I'll say it again: it always seems to me that we come to know our same-sex parents through the bodily and the involuntary; through a kind of fossicking of our own physical strata. As we come to resemble our fathers, so we re-encounter the individual who reared us.
Since I can barely write two books a year the best solution seems to be co-author projects. My goal isn't to get another writer to clone me... it's more to produce a book that shares my vision of positive, fun entertainment.
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
It's about process, the process of growth. It seems to me in my own life - and other minds throughout history have also observed this phenomenon - that growth seems to move in two directions at the same time.
Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.
It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
When 'The Thin Blue Line' came out, I was criticized by many people for using reenactments, as if I wasn't dedicated to the truth because I filmed these scenes. That always and still seems to be nonsensical.
It seems like Satan has thrown the DH into our game.
You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really.
The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars.
The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science.
You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems.
Mental fitness is served by consciously redirecting our attention away from the constant bombardment from the media whose reason to be seems to be focused on keeping us in a state of constant alert.
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?
The world is in motion, as it seems.
The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean.
Novelists, it seems to me, are the very last people who should be asked to comment on the news of the day, and sooner or later, when they have been pilloried for their views, most of them recognise this.
In humans, the thing is that as we mature, our telomeres slowly wear down. So the question has always been: 'Did that matter?' Well, more and more, it seems like it matters.
Selling beauty is something I can understand. Even selling false beauty seems perfectly natural; it's a sign of progress.
Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.
Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.
