Seeking Someone Quotes

#1. The G.O.P. is desperately seeking someone who can save the party from the fate of nominating Mitt Romney. But every time a non-Mitt throws his hat in the ring, the hat explodes.

Gail Collins

#2. I suppose Anne was right when she observed that at any given moment we're all seeking someone's forgiveness.

Amor Towles

#3. Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Saint Peter

#4. If I were capable of assisting someone, I would do it in a manner that would cause the person seeking assistance to work, so he assists himself.

Ameen Rihani

#5. 10 As the Scriptures say, No one is righteous - not even one. 11 No one is truly wise; no one is seeking God. 12 All have turned away; all have become useless. No one does good, not a single one.

Anonymous

#6. Step out today not seeking to be in the spotlight but seeking for a spot to light - be a blessing to someone

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#7. Idolatry' is the practice of seeking the source and provision of what we need either physically or emotionally in someone or something other than the one true God. It is the tragically pathetic attempt to squeeze life out of lifeless forms that cannot help us meet our real needs.

Scott J. Hafemann

#8. If someone is depressed they tend to retreat within the inner circle of their comfort zone which in the longer term, may contribute to exacerbating a problem rather than soothing it and if not seeking to expand the comfort zone becomes the norm.

Philippa Perry

#9. Seeking refuge from a world in which huge and mysterious forces were let loose to destruction.

Diana Gabaldon

#10. I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Saint Augustine

#11. He rubbed at his face, as if seeking to awaken the right words from muscle, blood and bone.

Steven Erikson

#12. What I haven't apologised for is the original concept of seeking to bring justice to all South Africans through the concept of nation states.

F. W. De Klerk

#13. Contrary to what you might assume, I didn't start with any advantages and neither did most of the successful people I know. I am the grandson of immigrants who came to this country seeking basic economic and personal liberty.

Kenneth Langone

#14. I write what the Holy Spirit put on my mind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. The mind is a dynamo in the dark, an engine endlessly running, powering nothing. It thrashes in the night, seeking daylight, inventing its own.

John Jackson Miller

#16. The goal of living a life of faith is never to go against God, but to go with Him. It isn't just about getting what you want, it's about seeking God's best, then trusting Him with His answer." - Linda Evans Shepherd

Cherie Hill

#17. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Charles Eastman

#18. Al Qaeda's message that violence, terrorism and extremism are the only answer for Arabs seeking dignity and hope is being rejected each day in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and throughout the Arab lands.

Elliott Abrams

#19. I always loved running ... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Jesse Owens

#20. Generally speaking, though, Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment-seeking nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#21. I opened the door for him; he took off like a furry heat-seeking slobber missile.

John Scalzi

#22. What's important is to be supportive of all who practice. Anyone on any level, even if they don't call it self-discovery, who is seeking to awaken to their own potentials and possibilities, to the inner freedom, deserves your respect and support.

Frederick Lenz

#23. Aaron Persky who is the judge who really I think it's fair to say there is a mob seeking to recall him because of what's perceived as a too-lenient sentence in a sexual assault case.

Dahlia Lithwick

#24. It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be read. They want support; they want someone to say, "Good job."

John Irving

#25. Never give up on someone. Sometimes the answers you are looking for are the same answers another person is looking for. Two people searching together are always better than one person alone.

Shannon L. Alder

#26. What someone may lack in talent can be more than made up for in self-motivation, self-direction, and follow-through.

Miles Anthony Smith

#27. CONFIDENCE BOOSTER: Take pride in the things that make you stand out. Realize that you're better served by being authentic to yourself than by seeking out short-term praise from someone else.

Robin Meade

#28. To be blunt, the belief in "authority" serves as a mental crutch for people seeking to escape the responsibility involved with being a thinking human being. It is an attempt to pass off the responsibility for decision-making to someone else: those claiming to have "authority.

Larken Rose

#29. Yes I'm seeking for someone, to help me. So that some day I will be the someone to help some other one.

Vignesh Karthi

#30. When I begin praying Christ into someone's life, God often permits suffering in that person's life. If Satan's basic game plan is pride, seeking to draw us into his life of arrogance, then God's basic game plan is humility, drawing us into the life of his Son.

Paul E. Miller

#31. Selfish people are always seeking ways to advance themselves. They only notice you when you have something beneficial to them. Realize when someone is using you for their own personal gains and put a stop to it.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#32. As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are - what others say is irrelevant.

Nic Sheff

#33. I didn't know someone whom I wasn't seeking, could make me feel like I didn't need to search anymore.

Nikki Rowe

#34. Seal the Deal Tip: When meeting with someone who asks a lot of questions, they're seeking information. Once you meet their need for proof and information, they will say Yes! I want to do business with you.

Lisa A. Mininni

#35. Never forget - someone else didn't get the job that day because you were the best candidate with the most unique combination of skills and talent.

Carla Harris

#36. Are you seeking power because that is your true desire, Brennan?
Or because you have a picture in your mind, of the role that you play as an ambitious young man, and you think it is what someone playing your role would do?

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#37. The more you try, so desperately, to prove a point to get someone's approval, the more fleeting that approval might be, causing a chain of depreciation of self-esteem. Sometimes, all you need do is truly love yourself and get only the approval and acceptance of the inner self.

Ufuoma Apoki

#38. To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

Sallust

#39. I didn't want to be ordinary," I mumbled.
My mother looked up. "What ordinary, Charley?"
"You know. Someone you forget."
From the other room came the squeals of children. Miss Thelma turned her chin to the sound. She smiled,"That's what keeps me from being forgotten.

Mitch Albom

#40. The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer: If you're an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/ responded/ insisted to what happened yesterday.

Seth Godin

#41. A Speechmaker's Prayer:
"Let each word of mine be tender and sweet,
Just in case someone might make me eat it.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#42. Often truly authoritative leadership falls on someone who years earlier dedicated themselves to practice the discipline of seeking first the kingdom of God. Then, as that person matures, God confers a leadership role, and the Spirit of God goes to work throuh him.

J. Oswald Sanders

#43. They are the efforts of someone who, overarced by stars that are human handiwork, and who, shelterless in this till now undreamt of sense and thus most uncannily in the open, goes with his very being into language, reality-wounded and reality-seeking.

Paul Celan

#44. I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking to deprive me of one of the greatest blessings man can have-liberty.

Jack Johnson

#45. He continued to stroke its back and scratch its ears, but after a minute or two he realized he was seeking something from the dog that it could not provide: meaning, purpose, relief from despair.

Dean Koontz

#46. Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers.

John Steinbeck

#47. I want a woman who can go to the saloon with me, not hypocritical, fame seeking

Denrele Edun

#48. The person who will end up enjoying success, is the one who planned for it and who knew why they are seeking to succeed.

Archibald Marwizi

#49. As I understand it, miracles come to those who risk defeat in seeking them. They come to those who have exhausted themselves completely in a struggle to accomplish the impossible.

Mark Helprin

#50. Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.

Enza Vita

#51. 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

#52. In government and out, there are vast realms of the bureaucracy dedicated to seeking more information, in perpetuity if need be, in order to avoid taking action.

Meg Greenfield

#53. Almost 30 years ago, I started seeking help from a counselor with a master's of social work in New York City, but we were never a good match. It was like being in a bad relationship, except the guy could actually bill my health insurance company for lousy dates.

Gina Barreca

#54. When I say I have a big dick, it's not a shit-talking attention-seeking ploy to impress a girl.

Charisse Spiers

#55. I'm seeking out a God who is the insatiable author of countless journeys, but who can still be intimately engaged with every minuscule facet of my journey.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#56. The giving of the Torah is a story of God seeking to provide humanity with the opportunity to make moral decisions.

Meir Soloveichik

#57. I am still seeking to become firmly established as an actor.

DeForest Kelley

#58. As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.

Lewis Thomas

#59. We are all doomed to seek our own happiness; we can't help ourselves. We are all, the cruel and the gentle alike, condemned to seeking that happiness in the dark. We use our need as the blind use a walking stick, to determine the safety of every forward step.

Jesse Browner

#60. Detachment is a basic requirement for seeking enlightenment. Anyone or anything we are attached to has power to manipulate us although we all have freedom to choose.

Hina Hashmi

#61. I have that thrill-seeking mentality, so when people want to know why my incarnations keep changing, or why I'll do something different than I did before, it's that same impulse.

Liz Phair

#62. After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known.

Gautama Buddha

#63. Having exhausted every possibility at the moment when he was coming full circle, Antonino realised that photographing photographs was the only course that he had left - or, rather, the true course he had obscurely been seeking all this time. (Last line of the story The Adventure of a Photographer )

Italo Calvino

#64. I don't know what kind of life you had, what sorts of joys and sorrows you experienced. But even if there was something that left you unfulfilled, you can't go around seeking it at other people's doors. Even if it is at the place you're most familiar with, and the sort of act that is your forte.

Haruki Murakami

#65. If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving them special time to blog more - and giving them extra credit besides.

Cory Doctorow

#66. Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage.

Alexander Haig

#67. All the suffering in the world comes from seeking pleasure for oneself. All the happiness in the world comes from seeking pleasure for others.

Shantideva

#68. The reason, simply put, is that seeking control is not the solution to the human condition but is part of the problem.

Skye Jethani

#69. There's enough pressure in life without seeking competition. That makes it double pressure.

Frank Bruno

#70. But if, through seeking happiness, my deeds are wrong, No matter where I turn my steps, The knives of misery will cut me down, The wage and retribution of a sinful life.

Santideva

#71. I never knew the wonders of nature, until I began to walk with nature.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#72. If you are seeking the counsel of God on a directional matter in your life, never get so caught up in the specifics of your own situation that you selfishly forget about others. Don't neglect the poor. Think outside yourself. It's liberating! Likewise,

John Crowder

#73. This "human thing" is the permanent process of seeking the sacred through revealing what is hidden. It is an ever ongoing and indefinite process of understanding and interpretation.

Curtis White

#74. Read the Scripture to renew your mind.
Mediate on the Scripture to nourish your soul.
Affirm the Scripture to revive your spirit

Lailah Gifty Akita

#75. There are enough blessings for everyone. You need to reach out for yours.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#76. Only the U.K. can trigger Article 50. And in my judgement, we should only do that when there is a clear view about what new arrangements we are seeking with our European neighbours.

George Osborne

#77. Islamism. It's an ideology. People are seeking to bring it about, but they differ in their approach.

Maajid Nawaz

#78. I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.

Margaret Spellings

#79. Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority of priests and politicians are honourable and honest - seeking to live out their beliefs and serve society.

Keith O'Brien

#80. The enemy is over there and we are still seeking revenge from the nature.

M.F. Moonzajer

#81. Easy to Understand, but profound wisdom for women seeking a deeper understanding of what happens to their bodies and minds as they reach the age of forty and beyond. A must read for every woman! -- Super Health Nation

Ivy Gilbert

#82. Once you have drunk from the water of unconditional love, no other well can satisfy your thirst. The pangs of separation may become so intense that seeking the affection of the Beloved becomes an obsession.

Ram Dass

#83. Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

Sonny Rollins

#84. Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows
comes the shape I am seeking for reason.

Audre Lorde