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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.
Kevin Rudd

Job, May, Challenge

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.
Sun Myung Moon

Time, Done, Words

What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.
Alex Campbell

Beginning, Realize, Pleasure

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.
A. R. Ammons

Between, Walk, Interior

If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Work, Hard, Insecure

In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.
Arthur Keith

Peace, Time, War

They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Lost, Glorious, Worlds

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.
Lee H. Hamilton

Union, Nuclear, Likely

I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.
Tony Abbott

Leadership, Successful, Political

I like trying things, I am kind of adventurous and I like thrill seeking.
Joshua Bell

Today, we realize there are those actively seeking to harm us, to destroy our infrastructure and take lives.
Dave Reichert

Today, Lives, Realize

But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.
Stephan Jenkins

School, Others, High

My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.
Kevin J. Anderson

We're all seeking order. We're all seeking control.
Michael Connelly

I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are.
John Prescott

God, Thank, Table

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

Government, Children, Before

We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.
Edward Kennedy

Known, Weapons, Mass

And, of course, customers really need to feel safe and are seeking reassurance when they fly.
David Neeleman

Safe, Fly, Customers

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

Power, Democracy, Control

On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border.
Jhumpa Lahiri

Through, Trees, Safety

When I'm saying hysteria, I'm referring to Freud, because all the women were coming to him with symptoms and seeking help, and he just called it hysteria.
Cybill Shepherd

Women, Help, Saying

Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
C. L. R. James

Today, Able, Situation

I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of.
Marguerite Young

Time, Fun, Help

We know that al Qaeda is seeking radioactive materials and technology to launch a devastating attack, and that hundreds of radioactive sources have been lost or stolen in the U.S. and around the world.
Ed Markey

Technology, Lost, Around

I tell the person I won't take a picture or sign the autograph, but I will shake their hand. That kind of personal touch is all they're really seeking.
Chevy Chase

Person, Tell, Personal

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.
Frederick Sanger

Good, Knowledge, Sense

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.
Sonny Rollins

Life, Playing, Stop

I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Giving, Value, Seems

In terms of 'Saving Face,' I was inspired by the stories of survivors who didn't let their attacks stop them from pursuing justice and seeking treatment.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Justice, Inspired, Face

The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq.
Robert Byrd

War, Mistakes, Give

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