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Quotes About Pursuit

I've never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I'm, like, 'How do they do that?' It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something.
~ Zooey Deschanel
There's probably somebody out there who has been dying to be Tony Stark, their whole life, and it will never happen. And then, it comes to me because I happened to do 'Heroes.' I mean, I love it. I'm totally respectful of the position, but I wasn't pursuing it.
~ Adrian Pasdar
This immediately involves us in a bigger picture question, too—one that's deeply penetrating and personal: why do we desire to heighten our genius and pursue the path of greatness? We
~ Sean Patrick
Herkes bir köpeÄŸin cazip bir kokunun peÅŸinden gideceÄŸini çok iyi bilir.
~ Sean Penn
That's the way it is in life. You let go of what is beautiful and unique. You pursue something new and don't even know that the wind of your own running is a thief.
~ Sena Jeter Naslund
I lifted two hundred pounds today, Tenth once bragged to Fourth after a triumphant afternoon at the gym, flexing his arms and chest. Why? Fourth had asked. We have machines to do that for us now. It was a genuine inquiry, but Tenth had tackled him and held him in a headlock until Fourth admitted that lifting heavy weights was a reasonable pursuit despite mankind's significant mechanical progress.)
~ Shalom Auslander
But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last will be first, I started wondering why I was working so hard to be first.
~ Shane Claiborne
She took two steps to the left. He shadowed her. She took three quick steps to the right. He did the same. "You…you're…" She couldn't even think straight. "I need you to remain calm." "Fuck you!" "That's not calm.
~ Shelly Laurenston
I think that American people really know how to pursue fun, they really know how to have a good time. Japanese are somewhat more reserved than Americans, so I'm jealous.
~ Nobuo Uematsu
When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.
~ Isaac Watts
You will have Time, that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it.
~ James Hilton
Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare it is the pleasure even of kings.
~ Blaise Pascal, Pensées
It's hard to catch up when you are running second in a race with time.
~ Avinash Rao
I do write all the time about - you tell me what your dreams are. What are you chasing? It's not impossible. Name it.
~ Diana Nyad
By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion.
~ Brian Swimme
You cannot make a romantic lover of me, my dear. Or a noble character. I want you. In bed, do you understand? And I mean to do everything in my power during the next two weeks to have you there. Nothing else. No romance.
~ Mary Balogh
Mr. Sinclair is here now, and I mean to have him.
~ Mary Balogh
Women like to be pursued. Women like occasionally to be caught without their chaperones. Now go to her.
~ Mary Balogh
Sometimes our dreams lead us in the wrong direction and it would be foolish to continue pursuing them out of sheer stubbornness or the fear of disappointing others. There are other dreams waiting to be dreamed—the right dreams, the ones that will lead to contentment.
~ Mary Balogh
set out to net him. She had her godmother and his
~ Mary Balogh
And so he drifted back to London... where he lived a life of increasingly busy idleness as he searched out one diversion after another
~ Mary Balogh
she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.
~ Mary Doria Russell
independent working girls out in the world, in pursuit of the kind of adventure that would strengthen, not deplete, us, as we would then be armed with experience.
~ Mary McCarthy
am not ready, nor worthy, I am climbing toward you.
~ Mary Oliver