Sought Quotes

648 Sought quotes by 518 unique authors

First, she wanted to taste the sweat that shone on his throat and fragile clavicle; then he chose to undo the tails of her shirt,… — John Crowley
Sought we the Scrivani word-work of Surthur Long-long in ledger all hope forgotten Yet fast-found for friendship fair the book-bringer Hot comes the huntress Fela,… — Patrick Rothfuss
The reason why we have never found measure of wealth. We never sought it. — George S. Clason
He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was… — Leo Tolstoy
A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world. — Jim Morrison
Elizabeth’s entire body started to tremble as his lips began descending to hers. and she sought to forestall what her heart knew was inevitable by… — Judith McNaught
The cost of a loaf is a simple thing, and so a loaf is often sought, but some things are past valuing: laughter, land, and… — Patrick Rothfuss
Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new kinds… — Alain de Botton
The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed;… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A smile flitted across War's mouth, hidden by her helmet. She had little patience for religion (although she approved heartily of the religious fanatics who… — Jackie Morse Kessler
Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having… — Fernando Pessoa
With a secret smile, not unlike that of a healthy child,he walked along, peacefully, quietly. He wore his gown and walked along exactly like the… — Hermann Hesse
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else. — Immanuel Kant
She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is like the thirsty traveller who at first sincerely sought the water of knowledge, but who later, having found it plain perhaps, proceeded to… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would… — Winston Churchill
But it was important to simply be sought, even if you didn‟t ever want to be found. — Sarah Dessen
All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that… — James A. Baldwin
I have sought you out to cure me.' 'To cure you of what?' 'Of this cursed affliction.' 'I cannot cure stupidity.' Scapegrace frowned. — Derek Landy
Everyone striving to be witty and sought-after, everyone talking and no one listening... — Lisa Kleypas
What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The power… — John Piper
The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was… — Barack Obama
In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought. — William Wordsworth
Decades ago, our ancestors realized that it is not just political ideology, religious belief, race, or nationalism that is to blame for a warring world.… — Veronica Roth

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