I Sought Quotes

66 I Sought quotes by 60 unique authors

..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
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
Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it. — Jo Stafford
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
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
There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it. — Robert Breault
The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be. — Alfred de Vigny
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What I sought was the sense… — Haruki Murakami
If you were close enough to her ruby-red lips you would hear her say, 'I will rise now and go about the city in the… — Neil Gaiman
So let the way wind up the hill or down, O’er rough or smooth, the journey will be joy; Still seeking what I sought when… — Henry Van Dyke
Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having… — Fernando Pessoa
School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that I remain thankful. I… — Craig Ferguson
Count up the almonds, Count what was bitter and kept you waking, Count me in too: I sought your eye when you glanced up and… — Paul Celan
And somewhere in that crimson-colored never-never land where i pirouetted madly, in a wild and crazy effort to exhaust myself into insensibility, i saw that… — Virginia C. Andrews
I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body.… — Robin Hobb
I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving. — Saint Augustine
Before us lay a painful road, And guidance have I sought in duteous love From Wisdom's heavenly Father. Hence hath flowed Patience, with trust that,… — William Wordsworth

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