#seeking

There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in that awful activity. ↗

— George Pataki

#awful #before #between #children #civilians

Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#because #been #beyond #characteristic #economic

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#am #atrocity #between #cause #disaster

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends. ↗

— James Bovard

#dangerous #definition #friends #our #over

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God. ↗

— Bede Griffiths

#been #centre #existence #god #had

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#poetry #seeking #sources #spirit

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. ↗

— John Ruskin

#ideal #positive #reality #seeking #study

I'm not seeking out genre films, but this just came my way, and Miramax was good enough to add a role for me because we wanted the chance to work together. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

#because #came #chance #enough #films

The attacks in Jordan, just like those before it in Indonesia, Egypt, Spain and the United States, demonstrate that terrorism does not discriminate by race, ethnicity or region. Instead, terrorists indiscriminately target those seeking to live a peaceful, loving and free life. ↗

— Allyson Schwartz

#before #demonstrate #discriminate #does #egypt

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#answer #barbarity #cruelty #great #howl