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Quotes About Pursuit

I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music.
~ Carrie Brownstein
That is the trouble with happiness-all of it is built on top of something that men want.
~ Chris Cleave
You don't have to forego education to do anything. Even if you want to go to the NBA, you should read.
~ D.A. Wallach
Life is all about finding challenges for yourself that you want to try to achieve.
~ Dominic Monaghan
Quiet! My wife!' 'Is she sleeping?' 'Sleeping? She never sleeps! No, you fool, she hunts !' 'Hunts? What does she hunt?' 'Not what. Who. She hunts for me, of course. But has she found me? No! We've not seen each other for months! Hee he! It's a perfect marriage. I've never been happier. You should try it.
~ Steven Erikson
Ublala Pung grunted a laugh. 'They'd never find her if it was a manhunt.
~ Steven Erikson
We're looking for grey-skinned murderers and they're hiding in these trees. Behind them, I mean. If they were in them, it'd hurt.
~ Steven Erikson
Running away never feels as fast, never as far, as it should.
~ Steven Erikson
Show me a mortal who is not pursued, and I'll show you a corpse. Every hunter is hunted, every mind that knows itself has stalkers. We drive and are driven. The unknown pursues the ignorant, the truth assails every scholar wise enough to know his own ignorance, for that is the meaning of unknowable truths.
~ Steven Erikson
I checked the warehouse, but he wasn't there, either.
~ Steven Gould
Mentally, opium was a welling euphoria followed by a serene sense of well-being. The effects of the chandu were gradual and subtle, washing over me like a succession of tender caresses. A juvenile lust for kicks would not likely be satisfied by chandu's leisurely and deliciously nuanced mental banquet. This perhaps explains why, in China's past, high-quality opium was considered an intellectual pursuit and not recommended for young people or the mentally immature.
~ Steven Martin
The search for perfection is all good and well... But to look for heaven is to live here in hell.
~ Sting
You may run from life, Tayven, but it is hunting you, and it will find you.
~ Storm Constantine
As one, the silent gathering slid out onto the balcony, human patrons in pursuit.
~ Storm Constantine
When Almorante gets an idea, he pursues it until it's brought to the ground." "What idea?" "He wants to cultivate you. You are Caradorean, and a kinsman by marriage of the Caradorean who holds the emperor's right hand." "You mean Valraven? We are not close friends." "Not anymore, no. That only makes you more valuable.
~ Storm Constantine
If hunting was his province, mind-seeking was mine.
~ Storm Constantine
All that compels me now is a mindless quest to see the face of the one I have pursued.
~ Storm Constantine
How do we end up doing whatever it is we're doing? If people didn't already have an affinity for a task, would they pursue it? Do people start out saying to themselves, gee, I suck at this math stuff, I guess I'll become an astrophysicist.
~ Stuart Land
That's what I have told people who have asked for advice through the years: focus on what is beautiful and pursue that beauty.
~ Stuart Rojstaczer
So, my credo consists of the pursuit and the act. One without the other is self-indulgence.
~ Studs Terkel
Practical knowledge is always surrounded by questions while theoretical knowledge always surrounded by success !!!
~ Sudam Tilekar
Upon the whole, he added nothing to his own happiness by all the dangers, the fatigues, and the perpetual anxiety which he had incurred in the pursuit of unlimited power.
~ Suetonius
Today I got up & decided that from today I will pursue what I love... Then my son came & said Papa I love you...........
~ Suneel Gupta
Music has been my real solace. And that's why I play music. And that's why I'm so determined, or have been so determined to pursue what I wanted to do, come what may.
~ Julian Bream