Seeking Quotes

I think the concept of seeking fame and fortune in women's football in the States is a bit idyllic.

At the core, our motives are always self-serving, Kate. Altruism is a fog created by sly minds seeking to benefit from the energy and skill of others. Nothing more.

I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking to deprive me of one of the greatest blessings man can have-liberty.

What the Commission is seeking cuts the heart out of the strategic rationale of our deal.

If you become so intensely curious that without knowing you cannot live, that is called seeking.

Seeking means admitting that you do not know. Once you have cleared your slate, truth can imprint itself upon it.

In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In what shallow glimmering space shall I find what glimmering glory?

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

You don't rest well as long as you're seeking vengeance. I feel sad justice wasn't done, but it's time to move on and sleep well.

Some few have a natural talent for office-bolding; very many for office-seeking.

If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, you would not have any shortage of very qualified men and women seeking the jobs.

Anyone who promises you something that you have not earned is seeking to enslave you.

I think very few people in Canada are seeking - to regulate any public expressions of individuals' religions.

When speed dating I'm seeking my equal or at least one in the making.

My heart went out, seeking the God of my people. In thousands of homes those white candles burned tonight. I joined an invisible congregation.

A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

We are not seeking to impose a recall.

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are seeking to measure.

You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.

In seeking the help of the Congress and our countrymen, I pledged no easy answers. I pledged, and asked, only toil and dedication. These the Congress and the people have given in good measure.

It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be read. They want support; they want someone to say, "Good job."

It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist deficit hawk.

I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are.

Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers.

Since the late 1970s, 163 million female babies have been aborted by parents seeking sons.

I like trying things, I am kind of adventurous and I like thrill seeking.

1 Peter 5 - Be well balanced because Satan 'roams about like a hungry lion seeking who he can devour.

When we survey our lives, seeking to fulfil our creativity, we often see we had a dream that went glimmering because we believed, and those around us believed, that the dream was beyond our reach.

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.

I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.

I was never really seeking to play music. I knew I wanted to do it, but I think I wasn't seeking it out because it seemed so abstract to me.

Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!

Do not fear the aging of the body for it is the body's way of seeking the root.

Boredom is desire seeking desire.

We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.

Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.

I loved him so much. It didn't change all the reasons we couldn't be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept my skin seeking his skin over and over again in the sad dance we did.

While our bodies move ever forward on the time line, our minds continuously trace backward, seeking shape and meaning as deftly as any arrow seeking its mark

Behind all forms of beauty there is an infinite unity, and this unity, this intrinsic and eternal beauty, the artist is seeking to discern and to make others discern.

I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it.

It's really corny to say, but if you are happily married and have good kids, that is about 98 per cent of what you should be seeking to achieve.

I love rollercoasters, thrill-seeking, all of that is fun.

In a lot of ways, I'm seeking some sort of peace of mind for myself. I'm a fairly emotionally petty, resentful guy who has an inflated sense of himself, and I needed to take that down a notch.

I'm always looking for a way to serve the nation, but I don't believe that it will be as vice president and I'm really not seeking it, I'm not requesting it and it won't happen.

I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.

The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about him somewhere, and is always seeking the opportunity to grind it.

I have DECIDED to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. GOD is love.

Doing justice, loving mercy, seeking truth...these are the issues [the Bible] is clear on.