Seek Quotes

I was never one to seek out the spotlight. I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all.

I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am.

Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.

Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.

Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.

I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.

But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

Seek out your bishop. He will show you how to repent and will help you do it.

Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.

I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the 'permanent quarterback.' I didn't know exactly what the age difference was, but I was already playing against older guys.

Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.

I seek as much as I can to mitigate risk.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty.

For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.

I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't seek it, it's always with you.

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

You should seek approval from yourself.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.