Quotes About Pursuit

It has demanded more of me than I thought I had in me to give. But pursuing my passion and using my spiritual gifts in my sweet spot is tremendously simplifying. I have clarity. There's no confusion, no "what if" questions that haunt me.

An election is just a romance writ large, with an entire community, rather than a single woman, as the object of one's pursuit.

they do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry.

Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare; it is the pleasure even of kings.

We never seek things for themselves, but for the search.

The ordinary life of men is like that of saints. They all seek satisfaction, and differ only according to the object in which they locate it.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the vain search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

The more you search the more you find.

Most people are not going after what they want. Even some of the most serious goal seekers and goal setters, they're going after what they think they can get.

For years the CIA had run a 3,000-man top secret covert army in Afghanistan. The CTPT, short for Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams, were Afghans paid, trained and controlled by the CIA. They were the best Afghan fighters, the cream of the crop. They killed or captured Taliban insurgents and often went into tribal areas to eliminate them. They conducted dangerous and highly controversial cross-border operations into neighboring Pakistan.

onto the unpaved dirt road that runs toward the

Bullshit. I don't know how, but somehow you followed us." "I will admit, Agent Harvath, that when you logged on to the web site I gave you for the surveillance photos of Marcel

If that other fellow doesn't know his happiness, well, he'd better look for it soon, or he'll have to deal with me.

Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic, when the fit of escaping is upon him!

Swami Vivekananda says: "Fortune is like a flirt—she will run away from you when you want her, but if you are not interested in her, she will come chasing you.

Let your passion become a passionate pursuit of Me. And as you follow, the sheep will follow.' (John 21:20-22)

like the old saying goes,if you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks

All musical people seem to be happy. It is the engrossing pursuit, — almost the only innocent and unpunished passion.

Fui tras ella, como siempre.

I hurl my heart to halt his pace. --from Pursuit, written 1956

And what is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the fair delusion of progress, I will seek to progress, to whip myself on, to more and more- to learning. Always.

The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.

There's nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping.

As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest.