Quotes of Sought - somelinesforyou

“ Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it. ”

- William James

“ In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History? ”

- Charles de Gaulle

“ 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

“ Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters. ”

- Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

“ Much that I sought, I could not find; much that I found, I could not bind; much that I bound, I could not free; much that I freed, returned to me. ”

- Lee Wilson Dodd

“ Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. ”

- Margaret Oliphant

“ The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning — in other words, of absurdity — the more energetically meaning is sought. ”

- Vaclav Havel

“ The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day. ”

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“ The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. ”

- Albert Schweitzer

“ Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation. ”

- Dean Acheson

“ In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor? ”

- Ohiyesa

“ Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. ”

- Henry Ford

“ God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light. ”

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

“ To attain this true peace, Jesus first sought to bring about a revolution of man. In this sense he came for war. ”

- Sun Myung Moon

“ But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way to find that what I really sought was something I left behind. ”

- Thomas West

“ One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. ”

- Albert Schweitzer

“ Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ”

- Matsuo Basho

“ I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. ”

- Albert Schweitzer

“ Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. ”

- Dante Alighieri

“ Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought. ”

- Matsuo Basho

“ Nietzche started a nonsensical idea that men had once sought as good what we now call evil; if it were so, we could not talk of surpassing or even falling short of them. ”

- G.K. Chesterton

“ Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS. — I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the APES of their ideal. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. ”

- Abigail Adams

“ 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

“ A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept. ”

- St. Jerome
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