I Sought Quotes

66 quotes by 60 authors

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in… — Eric Clapton
I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large. — Raymond Loewy
I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I sought to reform minstrelsy among refined people by making words suitable to their taste, instead of the trashy and really offensive words which belong… — Stephen Foster
I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out. — Virginia Heffernan
Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach. — Albert Einstein
Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of… — Piet Mondrian
Ever since ROME, OPEN CITY, I have maintained a conscious, determined endeavor to try to understand the world in which I live, in a spirit… — Roberto Rossellini
Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I did not love… — Russell Kirk
I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see, I sought my god, but my god eluded me; And then I sought my… — Baba Amte
Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather… — Chantal Kreviazuk
At every stage of my career, I sought out the most influential people around me and asked for their help and guidance. — Keith Ferrazzi
I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my… — Thomas Francis Meagher
Late have I loved Thee, O Lord; and behold, Thou wast within and I without, and there I sought Thee. Thou was with me when… — Saint Augustine
If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to… — Lena Dunham
Sin is a thing of time, but mercy is from everlasting. Transgression is but of yesterday, but mercy was ever of old. Before you and… — Charles Spurgeon
What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he… — John Gunther
I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my dearest friends have… — Lawrence Clark Powell
The more I sought truth uncorrupted by years of religious history, the more I kept finding answers I didnâ€™t want to find. Emotionally, it would… — Tim Lambesis

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