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We did not begin this project with a theory to test or prove. We sought to build a theory from the ground up, derived directly from the evidence.
— James C. Collins
I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love ... I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
— Augustine Of Hippo
For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought.
— Bayazid Bastami
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]
— Juvenal
For Jews, the paradigmatic convert is the biblical Ruth, who sought not only a new relationship with God but also a new nationality.
— Meir Soloveichik
The future belongs to those who are building brands now, for they will be sought-after.
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
They have rejected that power and sought to convince women of the exact opposite, that they are powerless.
— Frederick Lenz
I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't seek it, it's always with you.
— Bonnie Tyler
I'm the world's most famous photographer, most sought after photographer, most awarded photographer.
— Peter Lik
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
My mirror image always had to be interpreted. And for that I sought my reflection in someone else's eyes.
— Alix Kates Shulman
Advice is like rain that soaks everything without being sought.
— Timothy Brook
I sought the bird of bliss and she flew away, I sought my neighbor's good and bliss came my way
— Anonymous
No man ever sought Christ with a heart to find Him who did not find Him.
— Dwight L. Moody
Happiness is not be sought outside. It can never come from outside or from insidebecause it simply is. It is always. Where? Everywhere. — Swami Satchidananda
Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.
— William Shakespeare
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
— Calvin Coolidge
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
— Annie Dillard
Control is never achieved when sought after directly; it is the surprising result of letting go.
— James Arthur Ray
They campaigned on contempt for the body they sought to join.
— Rick Perlstein
Precious jewels are to be sought, not to be seeking.
— La Jill Hunt
Mystery was piling upon mystery, and that for all his efforts he was getting further and further from any understanding of the truths he sought.
— Arthur C. Clarke
It's nice to be in a place where I can be a little more selective, and to be sought out for ideas that I have.
— Will Ferrell
The eunuch sought God despite the fact that he had heard that there was no love for him there.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber
One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.
— Henry Adams
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
— Harriet Martineau
There's no question that the resolution of dissonance has always been the norm against which the occasional iconoclast has sought to make its mark
— Herbert Lindenberger
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
Are you sought out at parties?No. Sorted out sometimes, and then slung out. — Ray Galton & Alan Simpson
Reiki has become a sought-after healing art among patients and mainstream medical professionals.
— Mehmet Oz
The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Arya did not know any Many-Faced God, but if he answered prayers, he might be the god she sought.
— George R R Martin
Jimmy Meng sought to be a power broker in the halls of justice. But the influence he sought to peddle was corrupt, and his power was illusory.
— Loretta Lynch
Think how much happier the world might be if people sought approval for what they do from their children instead of their ancestors.
— Brian Ruckley
I heard you, sought you, and have found you. I have reached for you, across space and sense and the laws of nature. I do not know how.
— Rachel Hartman
In the Credo the Church bows before that God Whom we did not seek and find - Who rather has sought and found us. Now
— Karl Barth
Always valuable, your attention has now also become one of your most insecure assets and most-sought-after possessions.
— Edward M. Hallowell
have become even more sought-after as a high-end party "drug"; at clubs in southeast Asia,
— Elizabeth Kolbert
Before I sought truth. Now I seek justice.
— Sophie Jordan
Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good enough to reach them.
— Robert Kennedy
What has happened by chance is often difficult to repeat when it is sought deliberately. Chance is a genius.
— Katsuki Sekida
I never have sought the world;the world was not to seek me. — Samuel Johnson
I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.
— Virginia Woolf
Even Gods have sought out gurus for themselves.
— Santosh Kalwar
Dreams can only become reality when they are sought after with the spirit of boldness.
— Ellen J. Barrier
They who seek Christ are already being sought of him.
— Charles Spurgeon
And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Advice should only be given when it is sought, otherwise our own worthiness gets assessed.
— Dada Bhagwan
Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.
— Hugh MacLennan
I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.
— Raymond Loewy
The much-sought prize of eternal youthIs just arrested growth. — Edgar Lee Masters
Having declared a passion for his wildness, she had sought from the beginning to tame him.
— Titania Hardie
I remind you that I have no faith. If I sought God, I find myself.
— Henry De Montherlant
The seeker is that which is being sought.
— Gautama Buddha
A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.
— Jim Morrison
According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Bob [Crane] was driven to success, and he sought perfection in his work, right from the start.
— Carol M. Ford
The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause.
— Bertrand Russell
Memory at last has what I sought.
— Wislawa Szymborska
Segregation, he concluded, is neither sought nor imposed by healthy ... human beings.
— Jonathan Kozol
Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before.
— Garry Kasparov
The reason why we have never found measure of wealth. We never sought it.
— George S. Clason
Men of great ambition have sought happiness . . . and have found fame.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Vengeance is pointless, but certain men did not have a place in the world we sought to construct
— Simone De Beauvoir
Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage.
— Elizabeth Warren
She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.
— Lorrie Moore
But the fact is, I looked at my life and realized I already had what people sought in marriage.
— Khaled Hosseini
No naked man is sought after to be rifled.
— George Herbert
Kho closed and sought my jugular with his teeth. He seemed to forget the hatchet dangling by
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it.
— Robert Breault
Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.
— Saint Augustine
The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
— Alfred De Vigny
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
The little flower lies in the dust. It sought the path of the butterfly.
— Rabindranath Tagore
The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season.
— Arthur Lismer
I honestly don't think I sought fame. It wasn't something I courted or wanted, particularly.
— Kevin Whately
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
— Margaret Oliphant