There is but one straight road to success, and that is merit. The man who is successful is the man who is useful. Capacity never lacks opportunity. It can not remain undiscovered, because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.
Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philtre, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.
No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage.
In the market economy the price that is offered is counted upon to produce the result that is sought.
I have been sought out by a number of people who would have felt uncomfortable coming to a large public meditation. They don't want people to come up and ask for autographs.
God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.
I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.
I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others.
Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.
I just sought a way to be someone I wasn't. To be loved.
It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.
The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all
In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.
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.
The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed. Thus they will become double agents and available for our service. It is through the information brought by the double agent that we are able to acquire and employ local and inward spies. It is owing to his information, again, that we can cause the doomed spy to carry false tidings to the enemy.
Gold is where you find it, according to an old adage, but judging from the record of our experience, oil must be sought first of all in our minds.
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.
In your judgment virtue requires no reward, and is to be sought for itself, unaccompanied by external benefits. [Lat. , Judice te mercede caret, per seque petenda est Externis virtus incomitata bonis. ]
Within its gates I heard the sound Of winds in cypress caverns caught Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought To whisper what their roots had found. (“A Dream of Fear”)