Seeking Quotes

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.

After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.

The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place.

My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it.

They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

The world is not uni-cultural. We must live together rather than seeking to dominate each other. The people in the world cannot accept domination anymore.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.

I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity.

Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans.

The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation.

I tell the person I won't take a picture or sign the autograph, but I will shake their hand. That kind of personal touch is all they're really seeking.

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.