We Seek Quotes
316 We Seek quotes by 246 unique authors
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Personal answers to ultimate questions. That is what we seek.
— Alexander Eliot
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When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential…
— Mark Epstein
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For spiritual companions I have had the many artists who have relied on nature to help shape their imagination. And their most elaborate equipment was…
— Sam Abell
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Little wonder that we. . .find the old pictures of openness - pictures usually without any blur, and made by what seems a ritual of…
— Robert Adams
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The normal curve is a distribution most appropriate to chance and random activity. Education is a purposeful activity and we seek to have students learn…
— Benjamin Bloom
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When we seek inspiration to help make decisions, the Lord gives gentle promptings. These require us to think, to exercise faith, to work, to struggle…
— Richard G. Scott
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We tolerate, even promote, many things we once regarded as evil, wrong, or immoral. And then we seek "explanations" for an act that seems beyond…
— Cal Thomas
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We seek opinions that are likely to support what we want to be true.
— Thomas Gilovich
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You do not take a man who for years has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line of a race,…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning ....
— Barack Obama
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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The peace we seek in the world is not the flimsy peace which is merely an interlude between wars, but a peace which can endure…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek…
— Ben Vereen
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Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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We must be careful, as we seek to become more and more [Christlike], that we do not become discouraged and lose hope. Becoming Christlike is…
— D. Todd Christofferson
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No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life suggests that the…
— Barbara Brown Taylor
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Don't become weary in doing good. If we are patient, we can experience the change of heart we seek. For most of us this will…
— Kathleen H. Hughes
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We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of…
— Blaise Pascal
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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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If the pleasures we seek are not permanent, then how important are they?
— Colin Beavan
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We seek a peaceful world, a prosperous world, a free world, a world of good neighbors, living on terms of equality and mutual respect, as…
— Harry S. Truman
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What we seek to advance, what we seek to develop in all of our colleges and universities, are educated men and women who can bear…
— John F. Kennedy
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Where others fear trade and economic growth, we see opportunities for creating new wealth and undreamed-of opportunities for millions in our own land and beyond.…
— Ronald Reagan
Who Wrote These We Seek Quotes
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