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We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make...

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

Quote by Dean Acheson about nation

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility...

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

Quote by Joseph Addison about humility, wealth, youth, good, good luck

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

Quote by George W. Bush about pray, violence, peace, state, world

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in...

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

Quote by Augustin de Hipona

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every...

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about common sense, action, pain, pleasure, life

In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about democracy, name, power

I want to work with the top people, because only they...

I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking profile that you need.

Quote by James Joyce about risk, courage, need, work, people

After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.

Quote by Joy Page about eternity, sadness

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

Quote by Camille Paglia about sex, wanderer, envy, earth, man, nothing

I had a tremendous interest and I just kept plugging away...

I had a tremendous interest and I just kept plugging away and knocking at doors, you know, seeking out encouragement where I could get it.

Quote by Gordon Parks about interest, encouragement

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...

Quote by George Pataki about moral, children, activity

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual...

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about beauty, happiness

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and...

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about literature, silence, books, being

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the...

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

Quote by William Faulkner about wisdom, dream, end

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Quote by Jean Rostand about olderness, old, man

What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but...

What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.

Quote by Amedeo Modigliani about opinion, human imperfections, real estate

The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking...

The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Quote by Marcel Proust about knowledge, eyes, real estate

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