Seek Quotes - page 94

I don't like rules of any kind. And I seek people who break rules with happiness - and not bringing pain to themselves. (John Waters)
I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience. View quote
Philip Sidney
I have put my days and dreams out of mind, Days that are over, dreams that are done. Though we seek life through, we shall surely find There is none of them clear to us now, not one. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters. View quote
William Cowper
In the past, the U.S. was the centre of the world, where everything was happening. I think my stories have always sought to question this, maybe even criticise it. View quote
Hideo Kojima
The marvelous is of necessity a lie, a distortion. At best it is a metaphor which leads to the truth. I think that I know what causes the World's Pain, lady. Or at least I think I know what contributes to that Pain.” "And what would that be, Ulrich von Bek?” "By telling a single lie to oneself or to another, by denying a single fact of the world as it has been created, one adds to the World's Pain. And pain, lady, creates pain. And one must not seek to become saint or sinner, God or Devil. One must seek to become human and to love the fact of one's humanity.” I became embarrassed. "That is all I have learned, lady. View quote
Michael Moorcock
Despairingly, sometimes, I seek the comfort of a benign god, Shaarilla. My mind goes out, lying awake at night, searching through black barrenness for something-anything-which will take me to it, warm me, protect me, tell me that there is order in the chaotic tumble of the universe; that it is consistent, this precision of the planets, not simply a brief, bright spark of sanity in an eternity of malevolent anarchy. View quote
Michael Moorcock
Some try to understand the world, while others seek to impose their understanding on it. View quote
Michael Moorcock
Give me your trust and confidence, knowing that what I seek is for the good of Fiji, for the good of us all. View quote
Josefa Iloilo
I have often come across convinced adepts of Greek mythology who mock our faith under the pretext that we do not say anything else to those whom we instruct in divine things, but merely command them to believe. They accuse the apostles of ignorance, labelling them barbarians, because they do not have the subtlety of eloquence; and they say that the cult of martyrs is ridiculous, considering it completely absurd for the living to seek assistance from the dead. View quote
Theodoret
I seek, after George Berkeley, especially, to elaborate a notion of the real itself as linguistic, and as divine language, and, after Robert Lowth and Johann Georg Hamann, to develop a theory of human being as linguistic being which participates in the divine linguistic being. (John Milbank)
If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available. View quote
Henry Rollins
Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance. View quote
Henry Rollins
To combat the confusion and depression that assault me when I come off the road in the middle of a tour, I seek the most oblivionated music possible. When it's the 'way out there' that I seek, I go right to my stash of amazing music from Japan. View quote
Henry Rollins
You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress. View quote
J. Paul Getty
I will seek the presidency with nothing to fall back on but the judgment of the people, and nowhere to go but the White House or home. View quote
Bob Dole
Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to improve institutions we deem defective. But let us, in doing so, respect the orderly processes of the law. Any other course enthrones tyrants and dooms freedom. View quote
Barry Goldwater
Seek His face, He'll never let you down. Worship grace, He'll never let you down. View quote
Sufjan Stevens
Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
He will therefore seek to establish for his country in the eyes of the world, such a character as shall make her not unworthy of the name of a Christian nation. View quote
Francis Scott Key
Power should be entrusted only to those who do not seek it. (Richard Rohr)
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book. View quote
Arthur Helps
Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you. View quote
James Freeman Clarke
There is no entering into heaven but by the straight passage of the second birth; without holiness you shall never see God (Hebrews 12:14). Therefore give yourselves unto the Lord now. Set yourselves to seek Him now. Set up the Lord Jesus in your hearts, and set Him up in your houses. Kiss the Son (Psalm 2:12) and embrace the tenders of mercy; touch His sceptre and live; for why will ye die? I do not beg for myself, but would have you happy: this is the prize I run for. My soul's desire and prayer for you is, that you may be saved (Romans 10:1). View quote
Joseph Alleine
I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth. View quote
George McGovern