Top 100 Quotes About Seekers
#1. They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.
Lillie Langtry
#2. What a happy woman I am, living in a garden, with books, babies, birds and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them. Sometimes I feel as if I were blest above all my fellows in being able to find happiness so easily.
Rosamunde Pilcher
#3. Spiritual seekers particularly are on a quest to understand life; we want to examine our own lives and find meaning in what we do and who we are ... We find meaning in the seeking itself. Every step along the way is the Way ...
Surya Das
#4. Anyone, without exception, can know God if they really want to simply by praying, by honestly telling Him that they want to know Him. He always responds to honest seekers. Jesus promised, 'All who seek, find.'
Peter Kreeft
#5. People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.
Dennis Prager
#7. For almost 50 years polls have shown that a large majority of the public believe that the budget should be balanced, and for all that time they have elected office seekers who would not balance it. The public cares about deficits, but doesn't care much.
Herbert Stein
#8. What makes Harlem special is that at any given time, food seekers can not only find food deeply rooted in Southern, Latin and African traditions, but also can taste the newer Senegalese, Chinese, and Italian influences as well.
Marcus Samuelsson
#9. I used to dream about him all the time," Sunny whispered to me. "Every night. I kept hoping the Seekers would find him; I missed him so much ... When I saw him, I thought it was the old dream again.
Stephenie Meyer
#10. Before he sat down, my internal heat-seekers sensed what was coming my way: deep blue eyes that melted girls like Velveeta in a microwave. I tried to resist those microwave eyes, but sometimes there's no defense against them. I had a feeling I'd be seeing him weeping over my coffin later that night.
Natalie Standiford
#11. It shouldn't be the asylum seekers wondering which country they want go to. It should be Europe telling them where to be, be it Lithuania, Sweden, or wherever.
Mark Rutte
#12. Most philosophies wrap their seekers in a strict belief system. By virtue of what they include, they exclude everything else, especially some vital realizations. Periodically revising our philosophy of life as we live it is, therefore, a critically valuable exercise.
Charles Bates
#13. Religious institutions perpetuate a moral master-servant relationship. They create an arena which attracts prideful human power-seekers with all of their nearsighted prejudices!
Frank Herbert
#14. GIVING - Applied tithing is so rewarding. When you give away your time, talent, and treasures you create a huge shift in your prosperity consciousness. So start where you are as you reach for where it is you want to be.
Lisa Washington
#15. Do we look like thrill-seekers? Wasn't it enough that we had to put up that sign reading NO HABLA ESPANOL and acknowledge the existence of thirty percent of the population, even in the negative?
Christopher Moore
#16. The Empire was on the point of turning Paris into the bawdy house of Europe. The gang of fortune-seekers who had succeeded in stealing a throne required a reign of adventures, shady transactions, sold consciences, bought women, and rampant drunkenness.
Emile Zola
#17. The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.
Voltaire
#18. Unions are the result of profit seekers. Unions are the way the average guy gets even with evil corporateers. The unions are godsends. The unions have a special status, because they represent the rising up of the average man against the evil corporateers and profiteers.
Rush Limbaugh
#19. The seeker asking, Where is God? Is really God saying, Where indeed is the seeker!
Meher Baba
#20. Spiritual seekers let their light shine so that others may see; not only to give service by example, but also to constantly remind themselves that spirituality is most gloriously embodied in our actions, our habits of being.
Bell Hooks
#21. For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.
H.L. Mencken
#22. Theatre is a game of hide-and-seek. For both the hiders and the seekers, the thrill is in the discovery. When the rules of the game are too vague or too complicated, however, the audience can lose its urge to play; the prize no longer seems quite worth the hunt.
John Lahr
#23. The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument.
Suzi Quatro
#24. We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody.
Justine Larbalestier
#25. Oh yeah, you're a regular sage. Shouldn't you be sitting on a mountain somewhere cultivating a long white beard waiting for knowledge seekers to come to you?"
"Have I mentioned that sarcasm has the potential to be detrimental to the natural beauty of your face?" he countered.
Jacquelyn Frank
#26. Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.
Jon Krakauer
#27. I never refused autograph seekers, unless they were old enough to look like collection agents.
Joe Pepitone
#28. Some seekers will do anything for their Self-realisation - except work for it.
Sri Chinmoy
#29. God shrouds himself in mystery so He can be found by true seekers.
Karen Wheaton
#30. It always amused me to observe the pathetically desperate hunger expressed in popular culture for life-forms on other planets, when underneath the very feet of these seekers of aliens, and roundly ignored by them, were the most exotic, grotesque, and fabulous life-forms imaginable.
David Cronenberg
#31. Oh, fancy! All these. I really have forgotten a lot of these. Oh, here's The Amulet and here's The Psamayad. Here's The New Treasure Seekers. Oh, I love all those. No, don't put them in shelves yet, Albert. I think I'll have to read them first.
Agatha Christie
#32. We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.
Michael Howard
#33. As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on our religious differences; and to the religious arrogance that says, 'Our truth is the only truth.'
Parker Palmer
#34. Blossom time has come and many ancient seekers are today getting their Self Realization.
Nirmala Srivastava
#36. We were all journalists, professional truth-seekers, but one thing we knew about the truth that laymen were prone to disregard was that it need not be literal or factual; the unpredictable human personality was itself a fact.
Walter Kirn
#37. Don't characterize loners as aloof or crowd seekers as arrogant. They may be living out their story.
Max Lucado
#39. I get very upset with all of the crowd seekers today, and people out there trying to get on TV. It ain't about you. It's about trying to make the world more just for everybody.
Marian Wright Edelman
#40. There are no new sins - only new sinners. There are no new crimes - only new criminals, No new evils - only new evildoers. No new pleasures - only new pleasure seekers. We must distinguish between wholesome, God-ordained pleasure and sinful, worldly pleasure.
Billy Graham
#41. The teaching process becomes most interesting for spiritual seekers once they've managed to hit the lower samadhis. However at that point many seekers become very egotistical.
Frederick Lenz
#42. The window of heaven is what all truth seekers are trying to open.
Harold Klemp
#43. Well they're very, very genuine concerns at present as to the status of the 800 people who are to be sent by Australia to Malaysia. There's concern about the status of asylum seekers in Malaysia generally, but there's concern about the status of the 800 to be sent.
Julie Bishop
#44. Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.
Hunter S. Thompson
#45. Young people are caught up in whatever appears to be the most bizarre. They look for truth and settle for folly. False religions and the occult are clever in reaching seekers who want to experience a rush of any kind.
Billy Graham
#47. Good problem-seekers are in higher demand than good problem-solvers.
John Maeda
#48. My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness.
Mary Oliver
#49. If we had attained the full vision of Truth, we would no longer be seekers, but become one with God, for Truth is God.
Mahatma Gandhi
#50. Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.
Naguib Mahfouz
#51. 'Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks of life.
Julia Cameron
#52. As with the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, the origins of Shearith Israel trace back to a small group of religious freedom-seekers and a treacherous ocean passage to the New World.
Meir Soloveichik
#53. The Oblivion Seekers, a collection one critic has described as "one of the strangest human documents that a woman has given to the world.
Maggie Nelson
#54. In Marrakech, Arabian open-heartedness is served up with a generous dose of pan-African mysticism, a dollop of French savoir-vivre, and a garnish of Moorish grace. The vibe is irresistible to meaning-of-life seekers and international hipsters looking for a scene.
Vivian Swift
#55. The seeker is never so popular as the sought. People want what they can't get.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#56. We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
Anais Nin
#57. Entrepreneurs are the seekers of solutions, and that they will go into these places where both market and traditional aid has failed or traditional charity has failed.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#58. There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?
Mark Twain
#59. We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home, and soon find that a change of climate is easier than a change of heart.
Phil Cousineau
#60. Questers of the truth, that's who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being's authentic core.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
#61. Simply being with other people who are also seekers and who are involved in the same quest you are is very meaningful.
Dan Wakefield
#62. Dear FB Friends,
Fuck Facebook!!!!! - It has proven to be worthless as a book-selling device, and is nothing but a repository for perverts, reparation-seekers, old buddies looking for handouts, syphillitic ex-girlfriends looking for extra-curricular schlong and hack writers begging for blurbs.
James Ellroy
#63. We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be said about our most ardent foes.
John C. Danforth
#64. It is natural for me to ignore autograph seekers, but God wants me to share my testimony card with them and be loving. That power and initiative comes from him.
Ben Zobrist
#66. Defy all that's holy, for they are the seekers
Do the bidding for they are the devil's speakers
Justin Bienvenue
#67. Whether one moves
slowly or with speed,
the one who
is a seeker
will be a finder.
Rumi
#68. In a social media world, the danger is being overexposed and when something is overexposed it is no longer interesting ... if ever it was.
Donna Lynn Hope
#69. No system which implies control by privilege seekers has ever ended in any other way than collapse.
Erik Larson
#71. When
I die
I'm sure
I will have a
Big Funeral.
Curiosity
seekers ...
coming to see
if I
am really
Dead
or just
trying to make
Trouble.
Mari Evans
#72. You have to be intellectually honest with yourself and others. In my judgment, all great investors are seekers of truth.
Michael Steinhardt
#73. Final-offer arbitration should have great appeal for the daring (the risk seekers) who play against the timid (the risk avoiders).
Howard Raiffa
#74. You are not seeking to attain some future state. That is the fallacy of many spiritual seekers. They have an image of some state - enlightenment, or whatever they call it - they want to achieve.
Eckhart Tolle
#75. A seeker of Truth looks beyond the apparent and contemplates the hidden.
Rumi
#76. The recruiters and hiring managers of today are becoming more and more like politicians when asked difficult and uncomfortable questions. If they reply at all, they will not directly answer the job seekers' questions.
Paul Babicki
#78. Most people are not going after what they want. Even some of the most serious goal seekers and goal setters, they're going after what they think they can get.
Bob Proctor
#79. We were seekers. You are that which is sought, Joshua. You are the source. The end is divinity, in the beginning is the word. You are the word.
Christopher Moore
#80. People who want to live like Olympian gods must have slaves whom they throw into their fishponds and gladiators who fight during their masters sumptuous banquets-and the pleasure-seekers never care if some blood splatters on them.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#81. Lesson to would-be fame seekers: It's not really a new world when it comes to celebrity. There are no shortcuts. It's still talent, perseverance and hard work. Even the speed and reach of the Net can't create lasting value and income overnight.
Sarah Lacy
#82. We opposed unlimited detention without trial. We stood up for trial by jury as well. And of course we spoke up for asylum seekers and for the most vulnerable in our society.
Charles Kennedy
#83. My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums ...
Mary Oliver
#84. I'm a truth seeker. That's what I do every day on the show - put out the truth. Some people don't like it, they call it sensational, but I say life is sensational.
Oprah Winfrey
#85. We must primarily become seekers of God instead of founders of works, for work will not sustain us through the traumas of incarnation.
Viv Grigg
#86. Later, John Paul II would challenge seekers like Jobs, noting that "Carmelite mysticism begins at the point where the reflections of Buddha end.
Al Kresta
#87. I encourage all you superior seekers in the secret depths to devote yourselves to penetrating and clarifying the self, as earnestly as you would put out a fire on the top of your head.
Hakuin Ekaku
#88. O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#89. The true seekers pursued their goal so single-mindedly, they felt no urge to tamper with the faith of others
Shahrukh Husain
#90. We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know that I do not belong, we are influenced - and sometimes strongly - by our personal bias; and we give our best thoughts to those ideas which we have to defend.
August Krogh
#91. We are the Children of Stardust.
The Seekers of Truth and ever growing Wisdom of Nature.
Our beliefs may change, our form may alter, and even our World may crumble,
but our Essence will live in this Universe forever!
Carla VanKoughnett
#92. Heaven and God are not high above us, far away; they are deep within us. Heaven is not a distant country where there are trees and houses and other objects; it is a plane of consciousness within us. Seekers of the eternal Truth will realise their eternal Heaven within their aspiring hearts.
Sri Chinmoy
#93. I guess that showed why the Guard mainly meddles with humanoid cultures. We're opportunists, not real knowledge-seekers, and we just don't have the knowledge base to go beyond humanoid contacts.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#94. What about you? You didn't even think twice about following those two. They say, 'Let's go onto the ice' and right away you say, 'Where do I put my paws?' If you ask me, you're the brave one.
Erin Hunter
#95. Thus the fundamental form-determining intention of the novel is objectivised as the psychology of the novel's heroes: they are seekers.
Gyorgy Lukacs
#96. I honestly don't hate asylum seekers - THESE PEOPLE ARE COCKROACHES and they're doing what cockroaches do because cockroaches can't help what they do, they just do it, like cats miaow and dogs bark.
Mark Collett
#98. If some of our teenage thrill seekers really want to go out and get a thrill, let them go up into the Northwest and tangle with the Grizzly Bear, the Polar Bear, and the Brown Bear. They will get their kicks, and it will cleanse their souls.
Fred Bear
#99. It's amazing to me how many people who profess to be spiritual seekers are self-seekers, and how few of them ever consider God.
Frederick Lenz
#100. We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be "informavores", epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future.
Daniel Dennett
