Sought Quotes
648 quotes by 529 authors
-
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
— Abigail Adams
-
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
— Matsuo Basho
-
It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator - just as I believe…
— Joe Biden
-
The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
-
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
— Dante Alighieri
-
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
-
An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be adjustable to too many different…
— Emile Durkheim
-
Lord, where shall I find you? Your place is lofty and secret. And where shall I not find you? The whole earth is full of…
— Judah Halevi
-
If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of…
— George MacDonald
-
Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.
— Ludwig von Mises
-
It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those instruments of war,…
— Herman Boerhaave
-
The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was…
— Oscar Wilde
-
The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
-
Prayer is not appointed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to Him…
— Arthur W. Pink
-
Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought…
— Charles Alexander Eastman
-
During the war one accepted indifferent after-dinner coffee as a necessity, but when, after the war, one sought to find the coffee remembered of days…
— Constance Spry
-
After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be ready…
— Carl von Clausewitz
-
I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.
— Raymond Loewy
-
Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt…
— Roland Barthes
-
Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought Heart's ease.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Who Wrote These Sought Quotes
529 authors contributed a total of 648 Sought Quotes, led by these top contributors: