Seeks Quotes
753 quotes by 577 authors
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Giving primacy to God means having the courage to say ‘no’ to evil, ‘no’ to violence, ‘no’ to oppression, to live a life in service…
— Pope Francis
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From the moment when he catches sight of the light of the world, a man seeks to find out himself and get hold of himself…
— Max Stirner
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Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.
— Arnold Bennett
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I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is…
— Dianne Feinstein
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He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in,
— Nick Cave
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Welfare mostly subsidizes people in poverty, helping few escape from it. In their hearts, most people who are poor would like to be rich, or…
— Cal Thomas
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The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks…
— Tahir Shah
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Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it.…
— Aberjhani
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A man seeking publicity works with the noise of voice; A man working for humanity seeks the silence of rejoice in life.
— Anuj
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Everybody who cares for his art seeks the essence of his own technique.
— Dziga Vertov
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Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own…
— Albert Einstein
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Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a…
— James Fallows
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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to…
— Woodrow Wilson
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What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.
— Epictetus
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The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in…
— David Mamet
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The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but an…
— Susan Sontag
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The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among the dead and…
— Lawrence Durrell
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A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and…
— Gustav Mahler
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Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector.
— John C. Calhoun
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