#seek

We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#fortune #greater #look #may #otherwise

We're trying to be very careful and precise in our use of language, because I think the language we use and the images we project really do have resonance. It's the reason why I don't use the term jihadist to refer to terrorists. It gives them the religious legitimacy they so desperately seek, but I ain't gonna give it to them. ↗

— John O. Brennan

#careful #desperately #give #gives #gonna

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves. ↗

— Hermann Broch

#better #hates #information #inquire #know

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity. ↗

— Steven Brust

#avoid #before #called #conform #conformity

When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things. ↗

— Wynn Bullock

#doing #i #photograph #really #seeking

I was seeking a real love, a real deal, and I have been seeking it for a lot of years. And in that seeking, I found that God's love is real. ↗

— Dyan Cannon

#deal #found #god #i #lot

People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#attention-seekers #drugs #fame #money #money

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters. ↗

— John Cazale

#find #i #inability #makes #oneself

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#always #been #down #heads #heads down

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#attitude #dogmas #evidence #find #insists