Quotes About Pursuit

What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.

He'd chased Vasquez for nine days now. Someone had warned the programmer just before Cooper got to the Boston walk-up, a brick rectangle where the only light had been a window onto an airshaft and the glowing red eyes of power indicators on computers and routers and surge protectors. The desk chair had been against the far wall as if someone had leaped out of it, and steam still rose from an abandoned bowl of ramen.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?

I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.

We were like two wolves that have chased a prey and lost it: They lie together in the dark woods, panting and weary, and they're still hungry.

It didn't even seem ironic to him that he should be planning remarks about truth and justice when, in fact, his whole life had been a marathon race, with truth a few jumps ahead of him and justice a few jumps behind. He had never caught up with the one, and the other had never caught up with him.

That is how I think of peace and peace of mind—as timid birds that we have to search for, not bold ones that come looking for us.

know anything about the Holy Grail, and I have to admit he ran with the ball.

You can pursue happiness, or you can create it.

Hunting God is a great adventure.

I can bow to fear and flee the pursuit of great things. I can bow to God and engage in the pursuit of making things great.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

How to obtain freedom has been, and is, mankind's most important quest.

Freedom is nothing but the distance between the hunter and the hunted.

I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the freedom to go out and pursue architecture.

To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.

For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree

It's better to chase your girl down even when she's wrong than to let another guy show her where you went wrong in not chasing her at all.

Imperfection is an end. Perfection is only an aim.

What ever makes you happy, do it and don't stop till you are satisfied and until you find a new source of happiness!

My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.