(561 quotes found)
““A warrior seeks to act rather than talk.””
Carlos Castaneda
“If, with the literate, I am/ Impelled to try an epigram,/ I never seek to take the credit;/ We all assume that Oscar said it.”
Dorothy Parker
“I write from solitude and I speak from solitude...However I did not seek solitude. I found it. And from my solitude I think, work, and live - and I believe that I write and speak with almost infinite composure and resignation. In my solitude I consta”
Camilo Jose Cela
“It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.”
Sun Tzu
“Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?”
William Blake
“If you have, give; if you lack, seek”
Malayan Proverb
“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain”
Mark Twain
“The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.”
Plato
“I to the world am like a drop of waterThat in the ocean seeks another drop,Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.”
William Shakespeare
“In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.”
William Osler