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Quotes About Pursuit

Acting is everybody's favorite second job.
~ Jack Nicholson
When I wanted to join the Pandoras, my mom had an anxiety attack.
~ Kim Shattuck
There was a girl in fifth grade that I had a crush on that joined drama club, so I joined the drama club because I'm not an idiot, and I was gonna hang with her.
~ Jordan Fisher
I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor and ended up joining a band.
~ Jim Sturgess
The most modern contemporary bureaucracies were those established by authoritarian states in their pursuit of national security.
~ Francis Fukuyama
CATCH FART. A footboy; so called from such servants commonly following close behind their master or mistress. CATCH
~ Francis Grose
A task begun is easier than a task contemplated;
~ Francis Spufford
I fled Him, down the nights and down the days;I fled Him, down the arches of the years;I fled Him, down the labyrinthine waysOf my own mind; and in the mist of tearsI hid from Him, and under running laughter.
~ Francis Thompson
Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
~ Frank Herbert
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
~ Frank Muir
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humour is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
~ Frank Muir
I take this for myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished with abuse, you shall still hear as long as the beast in me maintains its taciturn power to close my lids in tears, and my loins move yet in the ennobling pursuit of all the worlds you have left me alone in, and would be the dolorous distraction from, while you summon your army of anguishes which is a million hooting blood vessels on the eyes and in the ears at that instant before death.
~ Frank O'Hara
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Truth is found when men (and Women) are free to pursue it.
~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt
That was close!" Frank gasped. The car had been traveling at such high speed that the boys had been unable to get the license number or a glimpse of the driver's features. But they had noted that he was hatless and had a shock of red hair.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
the one who stole the small float plane at Yellowknife.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
with a duffel bag over his shoulder.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake...can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.
~ Franz Boas
Umar puts his awareness of the restlessness for more and more knowledge that possesses true scholars, in these words: "Scholars are more prone to sleeplessness and slower to have enough to eat than any guests.
~ Franz Rosenthal
Poetry is practically the only intellectual pursuit which we can be positive was highly developed and much practiced in pre-Islamic Arabia. It seems certain that the Arabic word for poet, shair, meant originally "one who knows," and the word for poetry, shir, "knowledge".
~ Franz Rosenthal
We are sent into this world for some end. It is our duty to discover by close study what this end is and when we once discover it to pursue it
~ Fred Kaplan
Many people work very hard at the things they do for fun.
~ Fred Rogers
When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.
~ Frederick Sanger
He that seeks trouble never misses.
~ French proverb