Seeks Quotes
753 quotes by 577 authors
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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
— Richard Dawkins
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The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.
— Khalil Gibran
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TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person.
— Daniel Quinn
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What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?
— Robert Hughes
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Every single being, even those who are hostile to us, is just as afraid of suffering as we are, and seeks happiness in the same…
— Dalai Lama
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For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal…
— Yann Martel
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...This is the first time I have met someone who seeks out people and who sees beyond...We never look beyond our assumptions and, what's worse,…
— Muriel Barbery
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My joy grows with every soul that seeks the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Remember, you have one life. That’s all.…
— John Piper
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Vengeance only destroys the one who seeks it. (Theo- Geary’s Grandfather/Acheron)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Only Thee That I want thee, only thee---let my heart repeat without end. All desires that distract me, day and night, are false and empty…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign…
— Judith Butler
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A community that is growing rich and seeks only to defend its goods and its reputation is dying. It has ceased to grow in love.…
— Jean Vanier
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[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In Muslim societies, a person who has been manipulated unto believing in extremist violence or terrorism often seeks the permission of his mother before he…
— Greg Mortenson
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All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries.
— Starhawk
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He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get. I to the world am like a drop of…
— William Shakespeare
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Poems On Love Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty. Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. Love is…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a…
— George Santayana
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The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the…
— George Eliot
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