Seeking Quotes
1388 quotes by 1064 authors
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different…
— Karen Armstrong
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
— Saint Augustine
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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
— Saint Augustine
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Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.
— Alvin Adams
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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
— Charles Baudelaire
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The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
— Joseph Addison
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There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to…
— Alfred Adler
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Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and divine;…
— Annie Besant
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The United States is the first nation to regularly conduct strikes using remotely piloted aircraft in an armed conflict. Other nations also possess this technology.…
— John O. Brennan
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
— Emily Bronte
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What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing their emotions in…
— Julie Burchill
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We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will…
— George W. Bush
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The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this…
— Robert Byrd
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I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.
— Nicolas Cage
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Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down…
— Coco Chanel
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And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan. We know they are seeking…
— Dick Cheney
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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans.
— Eric Alterman
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I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the…
— A. R. Ammons
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