#sought

Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system. ↗

— Lars Ulrich

#available #became #catalog #free #hijacked

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

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#been #bid #birth #country #death

Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought. ↗

— Margaret Chase Smith

#consideration #constructive #constructive criticism #courtesy #criticism

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#given #good #love #sought #unsought

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected. ↗

— Sophocles

#go #look #undetected #unsought #will

But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#allegorical #arbitrary #attaches #be true #categories

I personally believe that the office of the President of India is not to be sought. It is to be offered. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#i #india #offered #office #personally

It has pleased no less than surprised me that of the many studies whereby I have sought to extend the field of general chemistry, the highest scientific distinction that there is today has been awarded for those on catalysis. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#been #catalysis #chemistry #distinction #extend

The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#behavior #explanations #human #human behavior #left