Quotes About Pursuit

We can act on our dreams or keep dreaming

the FBI's search for MLK's killer began, a manhunt that would become the largest in American history

We have heard the fact; let us seek the mystery.

Children at play, birds of prey," Lucien said, closing out his register, "and dogs may chase anything that moves. But in general, we are not pursued because we run; we run because we are pursued. Someone wanted something from this girl --love, money, her body, her mind. Find out what pursued your friend, and you find your friend.

Lincoln jibed that a general INVADED Canada without resistance and out-vaded it without pursuit.

Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Eliza made her desperate retreat across the river just in the dusk of twilight. The gray mist of evening, rising slowly from the river, enveloped her as she disappeared up the bank, and the swollen current and floundering masses of ice presented a hopeless barrier between her and her pursuer.

Be fearless in the chase of your dream.

It is more important to find out the truth about oneself than to find out the truth about heaven and hell, or about many other things which are of less importance and are apart from oneself. However, every man's pursuit is according to his state of evolution, and so each soul is in pursuit of something—but he does not know where it leads him.

How would I ever consider a skill that gave me goose bumps a hobby?

The erogenous zone is always shifting, and it is the business of fashion to pursue it, without ever catching it up.

When we persue happiness for it's own sake, it's like chasing the end of a rainbow. It will always elude us. It is when we're committed to some higher purpose that happiness somehow breaks through and comes to dwell with us.

South Carolina went on what was described as a "war footing" and commenced the hunt for the remaining slaves. 9 Every white male in the colony was armed, and checkpoints were established at ferry crossings. Members of the local Chickasaw and Catawba tribes were offered a bounty for every black they caught.

If you run away from trouble, it always follows.

The entire world wasn't after them. It only seemed that way.

I discovered this myself when I was woken up in the middle of the night and chased sixteen miles by an angry mob armed with torches, swords, and vicious dogs

Life is the joyless quest for joy.

kills a cop, the net gets big and wide. That net

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation. All have been, or at least all have believed themselves to be, in danger from the pursuit of some one they wished to avoid; and all have been anxious for the attentions of someone they wished to please.

She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the blessing, and it was not possible that encouragement from her should be long wanting.

To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

Was it new for one, perhaps too busy to seek, to be the prize of a girl who would seek him?

He had followed her into the shrubbery with no idea of trying it