No kid is seeking anything when he joins a gang; he's always fleeing something. He's not being pulled; he's being pushed by the circumstances in which he finds himself.
Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.
I conclude where I began, I was elected by the people of Australia to do a job. I was not elected by the factional leaders of Australia, of the Australian Labor Party to do a job - though they may be seeking to do a job on me, that's a separate matter. The challenge therefore is to honour the mandate given to me by the Australian people.
The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
The time will come, without my seeking it, that my words will almost serve as law. If I ask a certain thing, it will be done. If I don't want something, it will not be done.
Only in the last week, South Carolina announced that it is seeking to become the U. S. center for hydrogen fuel cells, and BMW revealed that it will power some of its high-end model cars with hydrogen.
But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.
And, of course, customers really need to feel safe and are seeking reassurance when they fly.
I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.
Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place.
China, as a nation, is a country under the one-party rule of the Communist Party, but it has introduced the market economy. As a country that is under the one-party rule of the Communist Party, normally what they should be seeking is equality of results.
I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and I have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.
I love pop music, but at the same time, I'm seeking to write whatever I'm organically inclined to.
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
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.
This urbanization that's taking place around the world is very real. But if it's people that are seeking an urbanized environment out of desperation, that's not going to be helpful long term.
The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
Historically, Jews only accept converts rather than actively seeking them.
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.
Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, 'It is not good for a woman to live alone.'
The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.
People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
It's not like every director in every movie is seeking me out by any means, there are a lot of things I'm not suited for, a lot of things I'm not interested in, and a lot of things that directors wouldn't be interested in me for.
The right algorithm is to put off seeking funds for as long as physically possible. And in an ideal world, a startup would never have to seek funds at all.
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.
In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.
People are seeking more power in the individual and less in government and institutions; they want more cooperation and less competition.
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.
Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.
Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.
It is easy to overlook the importance of the young in underdeveloped countries. It is the natural course for nations, and diplomats, and those who publish newspapers, to speak to the established order. Seeking out the young requires a conscious effort.