Quotes About Pursuit

I will go tell him of Hermia's flight: Then to the wood will he to-morrow night Pursue her; and for this intelligence If I have thanks, it is a dear expense: But herein mean I to enrich my pain, To have his sight thither and back again.

Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get; and what thou hast, forgettest.

treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!

The lesson . . . ," Gilbert says, "is that our longings and our worries are both to some degree overblown because we have within us the capacity to manufacture the very commodity we are constantly chasing." As Gilbert's research suggests, we may think that happiness is something to be pursued outside us, but it is actually something that we make inside.

Sixkiller, U.S. Marshal

In all true artistic feeling, the pursuit, not the result, is the reward; for where Art is rightly pursued, it produces a continual satisfaction in the fact that, however slow, there is progress, and that progress is sure; and although the work done may have no mercantile value whatever, it may be regarded as the effort of an immortal mind striving to improve itself, and, therefore, precious.

Además, el proceso de agenciarse carbón era una dificultad y un peligro extraordinarios. La extensa organización del Almirantazgo tenía servicios de vigilancia en cada puerto, sobre cada tonelada y en todo carbonero probable. La compra del carbón y el movimiento de un carbonero podían muy bien proporcionar una pista a los perseguidores.

The track's all yours. We won't get in your way: by then we will have set off chasing ourselves rather than you.

The most important word in our planet's lexicon is why. We suspect this is true of other galaxies too.

La puta de Mensa Mire, Kaiser, soy fundamentalmente un intelectual. Uno se puede buscar todas las furcias que quiera, claro. Pero mujeres inteligentes de verdad...no resultan fáciles de encontrar a corto plazo.

No sé si me entendiste: buscabas al amor como al trabajo de publicista, con muchísimas ganas de no encontrarlo.

Here, too, is a maxim to engrave upon the memory: in charging a superior force, never to leave a difficult tract of ground in the rear of your attack, since there is all the difference in the world between a stumble in flight and a stumble in pursuit.

Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.

All you have to do is keep the animal in sight, and within ten minutes, you're reeling him in.

Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down. The world values words and hands down books but, though the world values them, I do not think them worth valuing. What the world takes to be values is not real value.

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

She could hear the rattle of hooves on stone evolve into a thunder of pursuit.

You can say 'What are you looking for' and 'Who are you looking for.' Can you say 'Where are you looking for'?

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

The pursuit of truth shall set you free - even if you never catch up with it.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Animal life boils down to this pursuit of pleasure after all. Human life is more complex: it boils down to the pursuit of pleasure, to fear of it, and above all to the dissatisfaction of the time in between.