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

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