Sought Quotes

648 Sought quotes by 518 unique authors

Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity. — Hugh MacLennan
All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed landscape… — Ivan Chtcheglov
I have never sought out the extraordinary or the scoop. I looked at what complemented my life. The beauty of the ordinary was always the… — Willy Ronis
And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys than to be… — Unknown Author
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. — Margaret Oliphant
This [Scientology] is useful knowledge. With it the blind again see, the lame walk, the ill recover, the insane become sane and the sane become… — L. Ron Hubbard
The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within.… — Ramana Maharshi
Love is not of the mind, it is not in the net of thought, it cannot be sought out, cultivated, cherished; it is there when… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
At every stage of my career, I sought out the most influential people around me and asked for their help and guidance. — Keith Ferrazzi
The revolution is ... the blow dealt ... agains the counter force of tyranny, which has never entirely recovered from the blow, but which from… — Voltairine de Cleyre
The LGBT movement has been coopted by the very institutions it once sought to transform, — Urvashi Vaid
For almost half a century, Fermilab has occupied center stage as physicists have sought to understand the fundamental structure of the universe. The lab deserves… — James Trefil
You have to get buy-in as a leader, instead of demanding adherence to management. Phil Jackson sought Michael Jordan's support before installing the triangle offense. — Chris Lytle
Analytic It is clear that the definition of "logic" or "mathematics" must be sought by trying to give a new definition of the old notion… — Bertrand Russell
Notable enough, however, are the controversies over the series 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - ... whose sum was given by… — Leonhard Euler
The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult. — Mencius
Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon… — W. Somerset Maugham
Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one. — C.D. Wright
People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the… — Theodor Adorno
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
In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize… — Benjamin Cardozo
Rachel Resnick's story of love lost and love sought cracks open the timeworn addiction narrative to release something raw, probing, brave, and redemptive. The courage… — Hope Edelman
So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of… — Herbert M. Shelton
Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge just as each… — Timothy Keller

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