Sought Quotes

648 Sought quotes by 518 unique authors

It [the depression] was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence worked out as one works out a mathematical equation. The international bankers sought… — Louis Thomas McFadden
This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection", or… — Herbert Spencer
In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power has been Roman… — Andre Malraux
The truth is that not yet usually means never. Trying to run away from the responsibility to decide about Christ is childish. Pilate sought to… — Neal A. Maxwell
Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I did not love… — Russell Kirk
As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses,… — Ron Kind
The temple endowment was given by revelation. Thus, it is best understood by revelation, prayerfully sought with a sincere heart. — Russell M. Nelson
I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather… — Bill Gates
Truth is power, but only when one has patience and requires of it no immediate effect. And one must have no specific aims. Somehow, lack… — Romano Guardini
Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a… — Daphne du Maurier
In 2003... the White House conspired with an oil-company funded think tank to block a major government scientific report that sought to spell out the… — Joseph J. Romm
In fact it is remarkable that this theory has had progressively greater influence on the spirit of researchers, following a series of discoveries in different… — Pope John Paul II
We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the… — Tom Daschle
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine.… — Bertrand Russell
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of… — Charles Caleb Colton
Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as it disparages itself. It seeks… — Maurice Blanchot
I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see, I sought my god, but my god eluded me; And then I sought my… — Baba Amte

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