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Tag Name "Seeks" (513)

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A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. It's a lie if you make something up. But you make it up in the name of truth, and then you give your heart to expressing it clearly.
Anne Lamott
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Your spirit is the part of you that seeks meaning and purpose. It's the part drawn to hope, that will not give in to despair.
Caroline Myss
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Follow the man who seeks the truth run from the man who has found it.
Vaclav Havel
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My inner wolf seeks to destroy the one I love for reasons of self-preservation. For the only cure to free my soul is to be killed, in an act of true love, by the one who loves me most.
Bree Despain
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He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.
Anna Brownell Jameson
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The Constitution of India seeks to guarantee respect for the rule of law, the independence of the judiciary, and the integrity of the electoral process. But time and again, provisions of the Constitution of India have been flagrantly violated in Kashmir, and the ideals that it enshrines have been forgotten.
Nyla Ali Khan
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Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.
Vikram Seth
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As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.
Dante Alighieri
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It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And you see - this, in my opinion, is the advantage that impressionism possesses over all the other things it is not banal, and one seeks after a deeper resemblance than the photograph.
Vincent Van Gogh
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It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.
Moses Finley
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Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.
Andrew Johnson
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Every man gravitates to where he belongs in life, just as surely as water seeks and finds its level. His position is measured precisely by the quality and quantity of the service he renders, plus the mental attitude with which he relates himself to other people.
Andrew Carnegie
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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
Andre Gide
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I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.
Voltaire
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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging... This confers the tone and bearing of genuine reminiscences. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil.
Walter Benjamin
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Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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He who seeks possessions for himself will never find them-until he begins to give of the abundance of possessions which he already has.
Walter Russell
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A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood
John Gray
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The non-violent movement seeks justice and reconciliation, not victory - or not just victory.
Alveda King
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The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.
Washington Allston
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If someone is gay and seeks the Lord with good will, who am I to judge?
Pope Francis
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One rational standard of action is how well it promotes the end it seeks. Another standard is whether it aims at ends which are good. Both of these, but especially the former, depend on judgments of fact.
Allen W. Wood
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The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil.
Tim LaHaye
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