#sought

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

— St. Jerome

#found #friend #hardly #kept #long

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

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#inconsiderable #master #masters #merit #methods

I never sought to privatize Social Security. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#never #privatize #security #social #social security

Heal me? You’re trying to heal me by rubbing your…by rubbing against me?” Kat didn’t even try to keep the skepticism out of her voice. “Yeah, right. ↗

— Evangeline Anderson

#love #sexual-healing #sought #love

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. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#complex #foundations #freedom #his way #i

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

#animal #character #degrades #disregards #even

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

— Matsuo Basho

#footsteps #men #old #seek #sought

Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it. ↗

— Jacqueline Cochran

#because #cannot #capacity #lacks #many

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

#archimedes #brain #did #direction #door

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. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#cause #certainly #complaint #ever #just