Sought Quotes

648 Sought quotes by 518 unique authors

Reputation should be neither sought nor avoided. — Laozi
Makeup ignites a psychological transformation of both the wearer and the observer. My paintings sought to locate the subject of art within the manipulation of… — Richard Phillips
While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people who had created… — Dan Gelber
After university, I was working as a stylist in the Paris theatres when I had a flash of inspiration. I made necklaces from the bikinis… — Paloma Picasso
By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately,… — Nikola Tesla
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… — Miguel Syjuco
I have generally sought to work on questions that I thought were both interesting and approachable, yet not too widely appreciated. To struggle to make… — Jack W. Szostak
Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and… — James Stephens
Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of… — Mahatma Gandhi
The administration of George W. Bush, emboldened by the Sept. 11 attacks and the backing of a Republican Congress, has sought to further extend presidential… — Noah Feldman
After the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan adopted an expansionist and colonial attitude towards its neighbours. It sought to identify itself with the West and… — Martin Jacques
My track record is that I have always sought to work with warmth and in a constructive way with the leaders of other components of… — Ephraim Mirvis
Eternal life should be sought elsewhere, perhaps in the religious community, not politics. — Matt Salmon
The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition. — Theodor Adorno
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… — Tony Fadell
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… — Ban Ki-moon
As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small… — Drew Gilpin Faust
In the past, secularists sought to challenge dogma by the use of rational argument, claiming, for example, that miracles described in the Bible are scientifically… — Stephen Kinzer
The history of Chechnya is one of imperialism gone terribly wrong. In the 13th and 14th centuries, Chechens were among the few peoples to fend… — Stephen Kinzer
We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent. We have never… — David Blunkett
Jimmy Meng sought to be a power broker in the halls of justice. But the influence he sought to peddle was corrupt, and his power… — Loretta Lynch
What is sought can never produce the seeking. — B.F. Skinner
Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption. — Joe Biden
Increasingly committed to human studies, I sought to collect several immature human oocytes from pieces of excised ovarian tissue, mature and fertilize them in vitro… — Robert Edwards
Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought… — Harold E. Varmus

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