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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought. — Matsuo Basho

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

Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it. — Jacqueline Cochran

The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself. — Henry James

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love ... I sought what I might love, in love with loving. — Augustine Of Hippo

He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.] — Juvenal

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

My mirror image always had to be interpreted. And for that I sought my reflection in someone else's eyes. — Alix Kates Shulman

but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who never really sought it — J.K. Rowling

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought ... — William Shakespeare

Like other women who sought equality, the amount of trouble I cause is inversely proportional to my physical size. — Cassandra Duffy

If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence. — George MacDonald

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

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

I never sought to privatize Social Security. — Saxby Chambliss

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

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

Luke diagnosed himself to be in love, and sought no cure for the disease. — Sarah Perry

Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance. — Michael Moorcock

A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters. — William Cowper

One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it. — Henry Adams

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

Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook. — Ludwig Von Mises

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine's economy. — Joe Biden

We have quoted freely from the Scriptures and have sought to furnish proof-texts for every statement we have advanced. — Arthur W. Pink

For me, the Revolution sought to end mistreatment, not to democratize it. — Gioconda Belli

There are two types of drinkers: those who drink to enhance their personalities, and those who sought to take something away. — Haruki Murakami

Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended. — George Herbert

I always sought out organic produce because to me it always tasted better; the quality was better - if you got it fresh. — Nell Newman

In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today. — Doc Hastings

Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought. — Margaret Chase Smith

For many years, I have sought and studied Agarikon, an unusual mushroom native to the old growth conifer forests of North America and Europe. — Paul Stamets

As my intimacy with his family grew, I became part of the world which he sought to escape; I became one of the bonds which held him. — Evelyn Waugh

I personally believe that the office of the President of India is not to be sought. It is to be offered. — Pranab Mukherjee

the reason for God's keeping some for himself and rejecting others is to be sought nowhere but in God himself. When — John Calvin

The world can absorb only doses of truth," he said; "too much would kill it." One sought education in order to adjust the dose. — Henry Adams

Subject matter must be normal in the sense that it does not appear sought after so much as simply happening to one. — Fairfield Porter

I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out. — Virginia Heffernan

You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss. — Salman Rushdie

Finally, states have monopolized, or sought to monopolize, armed force. — Immanuel Wallerstein

Great minds have sought you--lacking someone else.
You have been second always. Tragical?
No. You preferred it to the usual thing — Ezra Pound

Throughout my ministry, I have sought to build bridges between Jews and Christians. — Billy Graham

sought the council of his tribe. When did my people decide to let one person rule without question? — Tam Linsey

Prompt to move but firm to wait - knowing things rashly sought are rarely found. — William Wordsworth

I do not seek to walk in the paths of the wise men of old, I seek what they sought. — Matsuo Basho

With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken. — William Osler

As long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper. — Anonymous

If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us. — Timothy Keller

I just sought a way to be someone I wasn't. To be loved. — Mark David Chapman

The devil sought to destroy me and discredit my testimony. But God wanted me where I would testify to others about his saving power. — Shirley Corder

To be made evident, truth must be sought for; for of itself it is slow to appear, and between ourselves and God the obstacles are so many! — George Sand

But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind. Thomas F. Hornbein — Jon Krakauer

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. — Dante Alighieri

He sought her lips as if he needed to breathe through her, as if only she could keep him from choking on his rage. — Cornelia Funke

What is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits. — Martin Luther

The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government. — Aung San Suu Kyi

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

Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good enough to reach them. — Robert Kennedy

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

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

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

Vengeance is pointless, but certain men did not have a place in the world we sought to construct — Simone De Beauvoir

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

And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season. — Arthur Lismer

I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large. — Raymond Loewy

Having declared a passion for his wildness, she had sought from the beginning to tame him. — Titania Hardie

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

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

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

The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause. — Bertrand Russell

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

The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own. — Mary Shelley

Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools. — Peter J. Carroll

I have sought you out to cure me.'
'To cure you of what?'
'Of this cursed affliction.'
'I cannot cure stupidity.'
Scapegrace frowned. — Derek Landy

The LGBT movement has been coopted by the very institutions it once sought to transform, — Urvashi Vaid

He longed for sleep, but it would not immerse him; that night the waters he sought for his repose were deep enough to wade in, but not to swim. — Jhumpa Lahiri

In the market economy the price that is offered is counted upon to produce the result that is sought. — John Kenneth Galbraith

No naked man is sought after to be rifled. — George Herbert

While the alchemist of old sought to turn lead into gold, the modern alchemist has a more noble dream: to turn men from rot to rock — Agona Apell

We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error. — Seneca The Younger

I haven't sought self-forgiveness because I feel I was preyed upon and not responsible for the many bad things that happened to me. — Liane Holliday Willey

I take it, since you sought to change matters, I was the one you found boring. — Emma Wildes

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. — Abigail Adams

God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted. — John Ortberg

I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success. — Ingrid Bergman

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

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

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

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

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

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