Sought Quotes

648 Sought quotes by 518 unique authors

For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland or pop, I've deliberately sought those things out. I've never… — Rufus Wainwright
Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me. — Ethel Waters
I had often sought for the peace there is in Christ, but I could not seem to find the freedom I desired. A terrible sadness… — Ellen G. White
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought. — Edward Young
The truth is black celebrities are not as sought after in the press as white celebrities, and that is comforting. — Niecy Nash
For many years, I have sought and studied Agarikon, an unusual mushroom native to the old growth conifer forests of North America and Europe. — Paul Stamets
He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought was jostling within himself. He had… — Mervyn Peake
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
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all — William Butler Yeats
All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem — Hunter S. Thompson
Owen Meany believed that “coincidence” was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their lives… — John Irving
Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized. — Terry Pratchett
O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near,… — Walt Whitman
There is no more compelling motivation to worthwhile endeavor than the knowledge that we are children of God, that God expects us to do something… — Gordon B. Hinckley
No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he sought, such a… — Hermann Hesse
Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found. — Robert Fulghum
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
But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on… — Marcel Proust
The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them. — Christian Dior
I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must… — Henry Miller
I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it. — Virginia Woolf
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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