Sought Quotes

648 Sought quotes by 518 unique authors

He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars. — Victor Hugo
Beware of the truth, gentle Sister. Although much sought after, truth can be dangerous to the seeker. Myths and reassuring lies are much easier to… — Frank Herbert
The loss of something that is never thought of, felt, or sought for when lost is not a loss at all. — Ravi Zacharias
I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body.… — Robin Hobb
I nod like I'm not at all unnerved by this new cold side to him. Not cruel like his father. Not warm like the husband… — Lauren DeStefano
When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when you see a… — Khalil Gibran
Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the… — Jodi Picoult
I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be… — James Joyce
He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people appear… — Steven Erikson
And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from… — Donna Tartt
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. — Samuel Johnson
We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty… — John Milton
I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
This is a long tough road we have to travel. The men that can do things are going to be sought out just as surely… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving. — Saint Augustine
Before us lay a painful road, And guidance have I sought in duteous love From Wisdom's heavenly Father. Hence hath flowed Patience, with trust that,… — William Wordsworth
During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their will were supposed… — Albert Einstein
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives devildoing its… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought. — Daniel Dennett
We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never… — Mark Twain
Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one. — Robert Breault
How to get rid of the mind? Is it the mind that wants to kill itself? The mind cannot kill itself. So your business is… — Ramana Maharshi
These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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