Seeking Quotes

1388 Seeking quotes by 1025 unique authors

No doubt exists that rent seeking in general leads to serious inefficiencies in this direct sense, but its indirect damage is even worse. Drawing the… — Gordon Tullock
A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My whole life has been one of seeking experience. — Jerry Kramer
The Fourth Amendment is clear; we should be secure in our persons, houses, papers, and effects, and all warrants must have probable cause. Today the… — Ron Paul
Running is a very natural activity. If you get too caught up, you find yourself constantly seeking to make running something that it isn't. You… — Bill Rodgers
The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because… — Plato
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends. — James Bovard
There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be… — Woodrow Wilson
Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends… — William McFee
If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God. — Meister Eckhart
Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This… — Unknown Author
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation. — Dean Acheson
Everyone, whether he is self-denying or self-indulgent, is seeking after the Beloved. Every place may be the shrine of love, whether it be mosque or… — Hafez
I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself… — Natalie Merchant
Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for… — Thomas E. Mann
In terms of 'Saving Face,' I was inspired by the stories of survivors who didn't let their attacks stop them from pursuing justice and seeking… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving… — Cory Doctorow
In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of… — Nancy Pearcey
Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds… — Steven Rattner
Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it. — Karrine Steffans
We had many books and pictures... my parents' way of life doubtless left a lasting impression on me. They created an atmosphere in which a… — Alfred Stieglitz
Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people, and the American continent received many people whose contributions are particularly clear in the agricultural and… — Julius Streicher
If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer ... We are in the business of reproducing reality from nothing. We… — Guillermo del Toro

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