Seek Quotes
3572 Seek quotes by 2062 unique authors
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I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.
— Patricia Highsmith
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Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
— Heraclitus
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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
— Andre Gide
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The bottom line is that people dont have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys, they should…
— Ingrid Newkirk
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Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold…
— Frank Herbert
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We poor sinners need to come back from our wanderings to seek pardon through the all-sufficient merits of our Redeemer. And we need to pray…
— Robert E. Lee
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Do not seek death. Death will find you,
— Dag Hammarskjold
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Using trees as a symbol of peace is in keeping with a widespread African tradition. For example, the elders of the Kikuyu carried a staff…
— Wangari Maathai
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Acquiring weapons for the defense of Muslims is a religious duty... If I seek to acquire these weapons, I am carrying out a duty.
— Osama bin Laden
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Acquiring weapons for the defense of Muslims is a religious duty. If I have indeed acquired these weapons, then I thank God for enabling me…
— Osama bin Laden
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I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so…
— Kenneth Grahame
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In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of…
— George J. Mitchell
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Seek advice, but make sure it's from someone who has successfully handled mistakes or adversities.
— John C. Maxwell
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The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
— Mencius
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Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The motive is this, 'Oh! that God could be glorified, that Jesus might see the reward of his sufferings! Oh! that sinners might be saved,…
— Charles Spurgeon
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God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is…
— Jim Elliot
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When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
— Edith Stein
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Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can…
— Charles L. Allen
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Let us not seek to make it less monstrous, for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty, lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we…
— John Updike
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A person who is obsessed with Jesus knows that the sin of pride is always a battle. Obsessed people know that you can never be…
— Francis Chan
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If America is to survive, we must elect more God-centered men and women to public office; individuals who will seek Divine guidance in the affairs…
— Billy Graham
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Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression…
— Andrew Solomon
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There is no power in the world like that of women ... this most potent constituency we seek to represent, and for their suffrages we…
— Louisa Lawson
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