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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

We take no pleasure in permitted joys,
But what's forbidden is more keenly sought. — Ovid

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

What is to be taught I learn; what is to be discovered I seek; what is to be prayed for I sought from the gods. — Sophocles

Knowledge of any value can't be given. It must be sought and earned — Rick Riordan

No man ever sought Christ with a heart to find Him who did not find Him. — Dwight L. Moody

Stability, after all, is only sought in situations of significant flux. — Ashley Dawson

Happiness is not be sought outside. It can never come from outside or from inside
because 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

God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought. — Victor Hugo

everywhere for it. And, as she sought, the conviction came into her heart that her husband had taken it. What she had in her purse was all the money — D.H. Lawrence

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

Active prospecting let's people know that they matter; that you've sought them out. — Diane Helbig

what is lost when the ends are interpreted to justify the means is always greater than what we sought to preserve with our unjustifiable actions. — A.D. Bloom

Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or respect for what was in others. — Ben Hecht

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

What if you're the angel I sought and me the ghost you loved, and we both knew, we belong to different place. — J. Limbu

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

Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue. — Horace

I never sought out a record deal. It caught me with my pants down. I was just a musician doing my thing, I didn't even send my records out. — Jamie Cullum

Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity. — Hugh MacLennan

As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay. — Mason Cooley

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 youth
Is 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

The secret of the receptive Must be sought in stillness; Within stillness there remains The potential for action. — Sun Bu'er

Bob [Crane] was driven to success, and he sought perfection in his work, right from the start. — Carol M. Ford

Our ancestors sought knowledge, but we, their descendants, glorify ignorance. — S.J. Kincaid

I had sought love. I had talked of love, not knowing that it is one step beyond wisdom into the face of God. And this was the only salvation. — Tosca Lee

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

When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge. — Herodotus

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

Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial — Henry Kissinger

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

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away. — Ellen Glasgow

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

I'm a fairly quiet and private person. So I haven't sought publicity. — Mark Walter

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

Still waiting for the sequel, The Little Engine That Sought Revenge: Part Deux. — Jim Gaffigan

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