Sought Quotes

648 Sought quotes by 518 unique authors

Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be. — Alfred de Vigny
The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to the law of… — Edward Forbes
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the… — Adam Gopnik
In my practice as a psychiatrist, I have found that helping people to develop personal goals has proven to be the most effective way to… — Ari Kiev
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought… — Gerald R. Ford
The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon it with wonder and curiosity,… — Rachel Carson
In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods. — H P Lovecraft
When I began my physical studies [in Munich in 1874] and sought advice from my venerable teacher Philipp von Jolly...he portrayed to me physics as… — Max Planck
Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken. — William Osler
Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section… — Robert Toombs
A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been… — Napoleon Bonaparte
They have rejected that power and sought to convince women of the exact opposite, that they are powerless. — Frederick Lenz
The normal Christian life is a life of regular, daily answer to prayer. In the model prayer Jesus taught His disciples to pray daily for… — John R. Rice
Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of all death, for… — John William Draper
Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season. — Arthur Lismer
Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another,… — Criss Jami
Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with moral valuations. And… — Nikolai Berdyaev
Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but of the things which thou hast, select the best, and… — Marcus Aurelius

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