Famous quotes containing the word seek:
“There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)
“Let others seek safety. Nothing is safer than misfortune,
Where there’s no fear of greater ill to come.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.”
—Epictetus (c. 50–120)