Quotes About Pursuit

Learning the truth has become my life's love.

Seek and ye shall find.

This guy eluded the French police... in loafers? -Chief Anderson

He looked like a man searching for an out. Any out.

For years they have pursued me. Their persistence has kept me underground Ã¢â'¬Â¦ forced me to live in purgatory Ã¢â'¬Â¦ laboring beneath the earth like a chthonic monster.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire

Langdon felt a chill. This killer is here for both of us.

habisphere. "Where is Dr. Ming, anyway?

History had a way of playing cruel tricks on those who chased it.

Arete is simply excellence and the striving for excellence in all things," said Odysseus. "Arete simply means the act of offering all actions as a sort of sacrament to excellence, of devoting one's life to finding excellence, identifying it when it offers itself, and achieving it in your own life.

You stay with her. I'll follow it in.

I shot at a great bird which I saw sitting upon a tree on the side of a great wood.

The work of artists and scietists is ultimately the pursuit of truth, but members of both camps understand that truth is its very nature is contextual and changeable, dependent on point of view, and that today's truths becomes tomorrow's disproven hypotheses of forgotten objet d'arts.

Three blind mice, three blind mice, See how they run, see how they run, They all ran after the farmer's wife, Who cut off their tails with a carving knife, Did you ever see such a thing in your life, As three blind mice?

"They're not gonna catch us. We're on a mission from God."

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

We walk around every day not knowing the exact level of risk and benefit associated with most of our actions, yet it remains our responsibility to decide what's worth pursuing.

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

I pursued education not instead of being a good mother, but because being a good mother required that I build a better life for my family.

There his chief enterprises are reading and doing nothing.

Desire, not experience, is the essence of life; experience becomes the tool of desire in the enlightenment of mind and the pursuit of ends.

If you do not want to commit suicide always have something to do. -Voltaire