Seeking Quotes · Page 33

In my experience, most federal prosecutors, at every level, are seeking to make a name for themselves, and the best way to…

— Jed S. Rakoff

I know that when I look at today’s Mexicans and Central Americans, they seem to me fundamentally the same as my grandparents…

— Paul Krugman

The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest.

— Rabindranath Tagore

When a novelist or screenwriter is looking for a subject, the element he's seeking is conflict. Conflict makes drama. Conflict produces great…

— Steven Pressfield

[The Bytyqi Brothers were] American citizens and we have been seeking answers to why no one's been held accountable for these atrocities.…

— Ben Cardin

Ramakrishna didn't suddenly become enlightened. We had years of him meditating, seeking, crying to Mother Kali, going in and out of samadhi;…

— Frederick Lenz

“To pray is seek the sacred path.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are looking for God with his eyes. I suggest you…

— Adyashanti

Liberalism is the party of upstarts who have insinuated themselves between the people and its big men. Liberals feel themselves as isolated…

— Arthur Moeller van den Bruck

If you play basketball, you get into the zone. You can't miss. That's the expansive mindset we're all seeking. But that only…

— Russell Simmons

A lot of people, after seeking a bit, have some experience, and sometimes will believe they're enlightened. One has to be careful…

— Robert Thurman

Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.

— Byron Katie

Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships. When one views the slaughter and suffering caused by religious intolerance…

— L. Ron Hubbard

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line,…

— James Fenton

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

— Ambrose Bierce

Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking…

— Alison Gopnik

Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and…

— Catharine Cox Miles

When a person's primary objective is to maximize material pleasures while minimizing discomforts, then life becomes a constant process of "pushing" (trying…

— Duane Elgin

......the interesting thing was that the Roman Catholic monks and the Buddhist monks had no trouble understanding each other. Each of them…

— Joseph Campbell

Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path…

— Anne Roiphe

Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I tell you to keep going, not because it's easy. Not because it doesn't hurt. I tell you to keep going because…

— Yasmin Mogahed

Nonviolence worked in Serbia, and it can work in other countries seeking their freedom.

— Janine di Giovanni

It's cool to be recognized, but it's not something that I was seeking or sought after. I never wanted to be famous.

— Poo Bear