Sought Quotes

At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.

These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered.

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

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

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating to the several parts of man's nature.

Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.

Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it.

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.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

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.

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.

Convinced that behavior and conduct are every bit as important as skills and expertise, I sought to build the firm into an enduring, values-based institution.

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

The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.

I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet.

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

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.

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

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.

But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.

In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.

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

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

And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'

We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5-4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman.