I Sought Quotes
66 I Sought quotes by 60 unique authors
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Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before.
— Garry Kasparov
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At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of…
— Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of…
— Barack Obama
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I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not…
— A. E. Housman
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I sought the advice and cooperation from all those around me- but not permission.
— Muhammad Ali
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..I sought a world philosophy-or an integral philosophy-that would believably weave together the many pluralistic contexts of science, morals, aesthetics, Eastern as well as Western…
— Ken Wilber
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Having found in many books different methods of going to GOD, and divers practices of the spiritual life, I thought this would serve rather to…
— Brother Lawrence
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Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it.
— Jo Stafford
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In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought,…
— Henry Suso
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You know, a lot of actors I think go into acting for therapy from whatever trauma has affected them as children. But for me, I…
— Michael Ealy
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There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it.
— Robert Breault
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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
— Alfred de Vigny
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It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself…
— William Faulkner
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I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.
— John Henry Newman
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For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer.
— Paul Theroux
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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought...
— William Shakespeare
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If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And thous didst it of thine obstinacy.…
— Khaled Hosseini
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I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful. I despised sophisters…
— Russell Kirk
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I had fallen in love. What I mean is: I had begun to recognize, to isolate the signs of one of those from the others,…
— Italo Calvino
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I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there; in her fiertile…
— W. Cleon Skousen
Who Wrote These I Sought Quotes
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