What is sought can never produce the seeking.

- B. F. Skinner

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

- Dante Alighieri

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

- Dean Acheson

I've never really sought out publicity.

- Dennis Quaid

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine's economy.

- Joe Biden

Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it.

- Jo Stafford

I honestly don't think I sought fame. It wasn't something I courted or wanted, particularly.

- Kevin Whately

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

- Margaret Oliphant

If anyone thinks he has no responsibilities, it is because he has not sought them out.

- Mary Lyon

I have never sought the reason why I write.

- Nathalie Sarraute