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Tag Name "Seeks" (513)

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Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.
Alison McGhee
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As a person, I take pleasure in receiving and sharing. As a perfumer, I like showing and convincing.... I'm quite simply following the trajectory of an artist, someone who seeks and, sometimes, finds.
Jean-Claude Ellena
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If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
Sidney Lanier
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The individual who fears the criticism of others is no different from the one who seeks their praise. Both are shadow figures, fading into the landscape, lacking the will to act for themselves.
Richard Bode
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He who understands humanity seeks solitude
Ali ibn Abi Talib
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We can't build a safer world with honorable intentions and good will alone. Achieving the fundamental goals our nation seeks in world affairs - peace, human rights, economics progress national independence and international stability - means supporting our friends and defending our interests.
Ronald Reagan
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Psychology, on the other hand, seeks to give account of the interconnexion of processes which are evinced by our own consciousness, or which we infer from such manifestations of the bodily life in other creatures as indicate the presence of a consciousness similar to our own.
Wilhelm Wundt
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The most perilous moment for a bad government is when it seeks to mend its ways. Only consummate statecraft can enable a king to save his throne when, after a long spell of oppression, he sets out to improve the lot of his subjects.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
Alexander Cockburn
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He that attends to his interior self, That has a heart, and keeps it has a mind That hungers, and supplies it and who seeks A social, not a dissipated life, Has business.
William Cowper
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The immature mind hops from one thing to another the mature mind seeks to follow through.
Harry Allen Overstreet
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Someone has to make the final decision, but the wise leader gathers information and seeks counsel - after deciding who among those surrounding him provides consistently wise advice - before making that final decision.
John E Ferling
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The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.
William James
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It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience.
William O. Douglas
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He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
William Penn
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
Alan Paton
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Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.
Diane Glancy
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In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey.
Philip Sidney
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Worship is at the center of everything that the church believes, practices, and seeks to accomplish
Robert Wiebe
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It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion the Bible seeks to open one.
William Sloane Coffin
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