Top 150 Sought Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Sought Quotes from famous people such as Jeet Gannguli, Josh Brolin, Ben Rhodes, Salman Rushdie, Alex Tizon, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

With 'Ekla Akash,' I have sought to re-capture a differ

With ‘Ekla Akash,’ I have sought to re-capture a different feel and mood, I will also explore other realistic films through music.
Jeet Gannguli
I got picked on a lot. I was a complete geek in school. I had braces. I didn’t have the hot girlfriend. I wasn’t ever sought after. I was a stocky, awkward kid who got laughed off the tennis court when I tried that.
Josh Brolin
Mandela was a guy who didn’t come in and just eviscerate the existing institutions. He sought to co-opt them. He brought white South Africans into his government.
Ben Rhodes
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
My grandparents bowed to the Americans and sought to learn from them. My parents sought to be them.
Alex Tizon
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.
Richard Owen
Whenever I’ve collaborated with anyone in the past it’s just happened really, I’ve never actively sought it out.
Lisa Stansfield
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
One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.
Garth Risk Hallberg
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
Annie Dillard
I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.
Mae Jemison
I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.
Linton Kwesi Johnson
The Islamic Republic has never sought tension in the region and does not want any trouble in global waterways, but it will not easily give up on its rights to export oil.
Hassan Rouhani
American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought ‘to preserve the idea of American homogeneity’ and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an ‘Asiatic Barred Zone.’
Karan Mahajan
The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
At a certain point, you have to take the rearview mirrors off the bus and focus forward, and that’s what we’ve sought to do.
David Petraeus
You know, a lot of actors I think go into acting for therapy from whatever trauma has affected them as children. But for me, I think I sought out the drama. That’s why I like doing what I do.
Michael Ealy
Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue.
Ameen Rihani
I am not in the business of pointing fingers or making excuses. However, recent history has shown that I, like thousands of others in Ireland, incorrectly relied upon the persons who guided Anglo and who wrongfully sought to portray a ‘blue chip’ Irish banking sector.
Sean Quinn
Jonathan Hill is an old friend of mine; I have worked with him for many years and know him to be a man of outstanding ability who has never sought a public profile.
Kenneth Clarke
In the years after the expedition to Chad, I started the Honnold Foundation, a small nonprofit that was my attempt to do something positive in the world. I sought out projects that both helped the environment and improved peoples’ standards of living. The more I researched, the more I gravitated toward solar.
Alex Honnold
Ever since taking office, the Obama administration has sought to accommodate Islamist demands that freedom of expression be curbed, lest it offend Muslims and stoke violence. For example, in 2009, the administration co-sponsored a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution along those lines.
Frank Gaffney
There were many reasons why people voted to leave the European Union in 2016. But my impression, having campaigned to remain in the E.U., is that above all else, people throughout this country sought to regain a feeling of control – not just of our laws, but over our lives too, and the people we elect into office.
David Lidington
Yashpal, writing in the nineteen-fifties, sought to indict this culture of men, Hindus and Muslims alike, who value their freedom and power over the rights and lives of women.
Karan Mahajan
I stand on the shoulders of heroines who never sought public acclaim but served as inspirations to the generations that came after them.
Gina Haspel
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.
Alexandre Dumas
The navigation of our inland waters has for years been sought in vain by foreign countries, and if we grant the privilege to Russia, other States will be guided in their demands by her example.
Zhang Zhidong
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
Arthur Helps
I am not a refugee. I sought refuge for many years, but the word ‘refugee’ does not define me. It just limits me and puts me in a box.
Clemantine Wamariya
I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I’m sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.
Fay Vincent
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
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
Edward Young
Swayamvar’ is one of the most anticipated and sought after shows on television and I am elated to be a part of it.
Hiten Tejwani
Bose did not die in 1945. It is wrong. It is a conspiracy of Nehru and the Japanese. Subhash Chandra Bose sought shelter in Russia and was granted asylum. Jawaharlal Nehru knew everything.
Subramanian Swamy
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
To be a white kid into hip-hop meant you’d sought it out and you practiced the art. Which meant dedication and diligence, as well as removing yourself at least occasionally from your own comfort zone and circumstances, and from people who looked like you.
Adam Mansbach
Jesus was happy when people acknowledged his dignity and saddened when they did not, but he never sought their esteem or regard.
Mother Angelica
Women didn’t go to school when they were young because parents preferred to send their brothers. The women couldn’t access loans in their own right because the banks sought the approval of a male dependent.
Joyce Banda
If anyone thinks he has no responsibilities, it is because he has not sought them out.
Mary Lyon
From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.
Ban Ki-moon
For better or worse, I’ve always been curious musically. Whether it’s opera or Judy Garland or pop, I’ve deliberately sought those things out. I’ve never wanted to do the same things over and over. Some think I’ve accomplished what I set out to do, and others consider me a dilettante.
Rufus Wainwright
As time has gone by, I have looked more and more like Paul Revere than the alarmist my critics have sought to portray.
Peter Navarro
Donald Trump has courageously taken on the entrenched special interests who sought to suppress the working people of this country and who have sought to deny them a livable wage.
Paul Nehlen
Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man’s character as a person and degrades him to the animal level.
Francis Arinze
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.
Vitruvius
Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I had been doing MP3 players and handheld computers since 1990-1991, and so they sought me out because of my experience. And about 18 generations of iPod and three generations of iPhone later, I decided to leave Apple.
Tony Fadell
CNN’s problem goes to its very core and to the identity it’s sought ever since the rise of Fox News, on its right: CNN is the channel for people who don’t want to watch the other channels! That’s a stupid strategy.
Alex Pareene
We know that veterans have valuable skills and experiences that are highly sought after in today’s workforce.
John T. Chambers
One of my biggest fears with ‘Coloring Book’ was that it would be labeled. I hate labels. I never sought out for people to recognize it as a gospel album.
Chance The Rapper
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.
Charles B. Rangel