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Quotes About Pursuit

a man circling around a woman, or a hunter circling around a deer.
~ Peter Kreeft
I DO NOT hear them, but I know they are near. The creatures. The men. They hunt me through the rocks and jungle trees. I must move, but I cannot. I fear my ankle is broken. If I stay, they will flush me out of this hiding place. When they are through with Father, they will come for me. I pray they spare him. It is I whom they seek.
~ Peter Lerangis
The problem of love lies in the way we woo.
~ Unknown
perfect is the enemy of good.
~ Peter Walsh
I lifted you from the tomb world just now and I will continue to lift you until you lose interest and want to quit. But you will have to stop searching for me because I will never stop searching for you.(Mercer)
~ Philip K. Dick
We are all insects," he said to Miss Ephreikian. "Groping toward something terrible or divine. Do you not agree?
~ Philip K. Dick
You will have to stop searching for me because l will never stop searching for you.
~ Philip K. Dick
The guilty, he reflected as he drove amid the heavy late-afternoon traffic as carefully as possible, may flee when no one pursues—he
~ Philip K. Dick
What is worth having is worth working for.
~ Philip Pullman
Mientras volaba en silencio volvió la vista atrás, como si le persiguiera su miedo. Edmund Spenser
~ Philip Pullman
To be truthful i am not entirely sure what people mean when they talk of happiness. There are moments of joy and laughter, the comfort of friendship, but enduring happiness? If it exists i have not found it
~ David Gemmell
he who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks for the most part in vain.
~ David Hilbert
The pursuit of comfort is basically the avoidance of life and not only denies us genuine pleasure but also short-circuits the entirety of our well-being.
~ David J. Lieberman
Unbelievers resist truth because it brings to the surface their God-instilled knowledge of right and wrong, which they've buried in order to pursue their ungodly behavior without the annoyance of conscience (Romans 1:18-21). That's
~ David Jeremiah
That word again. Happy. It's a curse. The pursuit of happiness makes us deeply unhappy. It's a trap.Before anything else happened, there was me in bed, thinking of who you used to be. I don't want you to think I forgot.
~ David Levithan
You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.
~ David Lynch
One colleague captured the conflict that can ensue by expressing frustration after several years of unhappy dating: "Why am I being pestered by guys I don't care about, but the men I'm genuinely attracted to seem to show little interest in me?" I told her that she is an 8 chasing after 10s but being pursued by 6s. It dawned on her that pursuing men just outside of her mate-value range was the source of her misery.
~ David M. Buss
What the lyric essay inherits from the public essay is a fact-hungry pursuit of solutions to problems
~ David Shields
Claire spoke often in her poetry of the idea of fittingness: that is, when your chosen pursuit and your ability to achieve it--no matter how small or insignificant both might be--are matched exactly, are fitting. This, Claire argued, is when we become truly human, fully ourselves, beautiful....In Claire's presence, you were not faulty or badly designed, no, not at all. You were the fitting receptacle and instrument of your talents and beliefs and desires.
~ Zadie Smith
Claire spoke often in her poetry of the idea of 'fittingness': that is, when your chosen pursuit and your ability to achieve it - no matter how small or insignificant both might be - are matched exactly, are fitting.
~ Zadie Smith
The thing is, it's really hard to be the No. 1 absolute best in the world at something, no matter what you're doing.
~ Joseph Benavidez
My parents are two academics that came to Canada to pursue academic opportunities.
~ Simu Liu
I've always wanted to act since I was little.
~ Alanna Ubach
Even when I was young I wanted to be an actress.
~ Troian Bellisario