They Sought Quotes
26 quotes by 23 authors
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
— Matsuo Basho
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When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility…
— Ronald Reagan
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It's instructive to consider the more spectacular and well-known falls from grace of leaders in the public eye... In the main, the issues behind these…
— Peter Cosgrove
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I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see people who wrote…
— Alan Keyes
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The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more evil than murder...…
— Inge Genefke
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I come of Quaker stock. My ancestors were persecuted for their beliefs. Here they sought and found religious freedom. By blood and conviction I stand…
— Herbert Hoover
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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
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But the whole history of America is quite different from Europe. People went there to get away from the intolerance and constraints of life in…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Many psychologists ... thought by turning their attention to their own consciousness to be able to explain what happened when we were thnking. Or they…
— Wilhelm Wundt
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Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not…
— A. E. Housman
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Showing a greater fondness for their own opinions than for truth, they sought to deny and disprove the new things which, if they had cared…
— Galileo Galilei
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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
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No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one…
— William Shakespeare
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There they lay, but not in the forgetfulness of the previous night. She was seeking and he was seeking, they raged and contorted their faces…
— Franz Kafka
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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
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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
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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
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While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people who had created…
— Dan Gelber
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I had been doing MP3 players and handheld computers since 1990-1991, and so they sought me out because of my experience. And about 18 generations…
— Tony Fadell
Who Wrote These They Sought Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 26 They Sought Quotes as follows: