Quotes About Pursuit

He begins collecting books as well as passions, he knows that the hunt for books, like sexual pursuit, enriches the geography of pleasure.

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

It is not the pretended but the real pursuit of philosophy that is needed for we do not need the appearance of good health but to enjoy it in truth.

Meski bisa mengelak dari hukuman, orang yang melarikan diri tidak mungkin bisa hidup tenang, karena mereka selalu dikejar ketakutan akan masa yang akan datang mau pun masa kini.

sem a ciência natural, não é possível alcançar os nossos prazeres imaculados.

I wonder if Napoleon or even Robt. Lee were our commander this evening would they pursue a defeated army in this cautious, courteous way?

Had Kilpatrick shown some initiative and sent a larger force in pursuit, he might have bagged the entire command while the exhausted column was strung out across the Pennsylvania country side. Stuart was fortunate his adversary was not determined to fight a decisive battle with him.

What madness is the course I am pursuing. I believe all the great truths of the Christian religion, but I am not acting as though I did. Should I die in this state I must go into a place of misery.

speed and quality are allies in the pursuit of the customer's long-term benefit.

Stop, police!' I shouted, on the basis that one of these days it was going to have the right effect.

Mr Punch was running for his afterlife, but I was gaining.

Cherchez la femme" is good advice for investigative reporters. "Follow the money" is even better advice.

I think the conscientious pursuit of happiness by itself can validate decisions to change, to try again, especially when failure to change will lead to lives of duplicity, dishonesty, and deceit.

You only have the right to pursue happiness; you have to catch it yourself.

The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.

Follow a shadow, it still flies you;Seem to fly it, it will pursue:So court a mistress, she denies you;Let her alone, she will court you.

the economy performs best if the central bank has the latitude to make monetary policy decisions in pursuit of maximum employment and stable prices,

The race was on to find a solution, but neither Bill nor I had anything concrete yet to report.

had been a principal reason behind Citi's pursuit of Wachovia.

Hank would be free to pursue his passions

Politics is about working to build the framework for the pursuit of happiness, not the achievement of it; politics helps us establish the preconditions necessary for happiness, but can't provide happiness in and of itself.

Finally, we must believe that we are pursuing true goals—not merely effective ones. Darwinian evolution leaves no room for the true; it only leaves room for the evolutionarily beneficial.

That's why Thomas Jefferson didn't write that the government was granted power to grant you happiness: it was there to protect your pursuit of happiness. The government existed to protect your rights, to prevent those rights from being infringed upon.

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.