Quotes About Pursuit

the extraordinary should certainly be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct of terriers and policemen to chase anything that runs away.

Do not seek perfection. None exists. All we can do is strive.

It's a strange thing about determined seekers-after-wisdom that, no matter where they happen to be, they'll always seek that wisdom which is a long way off. Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

Trouble is always easy to find when you have enough people looking for it.

He had spent years in search of boredom, but had never achieved it. Just when he thought he had it in his grasp his life would suddenly become full of near-terminal interest.

Well, there were plenty of things to do; there always were. There was no end to the wanting.

If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing badly," said Granny, fleeing into aphorisms, the last refuge of an adult under siege.

Then she turned to follow them, and the three demon hunters walked together down the hill.

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

I still don't really think about acting that much. I just do it.

If you want to go after something, just do it.

I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.

I was enjoying my football, even though it wasn't really going well. That's when I said to my dad, who as a New Zealander was very keen on me playing cricket, that I would choose football.

It was during the gap between 12th class and college, that I realized my passion for music, although I did have a keen ear for it all along and also wanted to be a musician.

I don't aspire at present to be king of the hill in American literature.

Once the opportunities knock on your door, you've got to try and go get them. If it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen. But at the same time, you've got to keep going.

We're going jogging." "I don't run for recreation. I run when someone's after me with a weapon." "That can be arranged

mortals who wish to gather it must first release a black hen which the Devil will not be able to resist chasing,

Ryodan growled. "For fuck's sake, you don't stalk an orgasm, you enjoy its arrival.

You would bound off faster than a hare if I were such a fool." He grasped her shoulders and pulled her close. "I would advise against running from me. I would catch you easily, and the chase would only arouse me." When she tried to shrug his hands off her shoulders, he said, "Is this the fashion in which you thank me for freeing you?" he teased. "You might grant me a boon for my efforts.

There's no place on Earth, feck, there's no place in all of heaven or hell that they'll ever be safe from me again!

The sated day is never first The best day is a day of thirst Yes, there is goal and meaning in our path - but it is the way that is the labour's worth.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.