Quotes About Pursuit

We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.

A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolution." [ Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the forty-ninth A.N.C. National Conference , Bloemfontein, South Africa, 17 December 1994]

Success is the deliberate, measurable pursuit of prayerfully chosen, written goals.

There are two main reasons why this assumption is wrong. First, once basic material needs have been met, there is very little evidence that pursuing financial prosperity generates much extra happiness for individuals or for nations. Second, by blindly pursuing economic growth, we are creating a whole set of social and environmental issues that will undermine the potential happiness and well-being of future generations.

Peygamberlik, Zerdü?tlük, medyumluk taslamadan içinde bulundu?umuz labirentin giri?ini ve ç?k???n? ar?yorum.

To the British frigates, shadowing them now at a distance of half a gunshot,

He would be followed by Vice-Admiral Honoré Ganteaume with six frigates and twenty-one ships

It was as their lady, dealer of wyrd and woe, that she judged the miserable bandits they chased down, the children, women, and men hauled cowering in groups of bramble thickets, hiding in twos in an overstood coppice, or sniveling along in a half-eaten bud in the lee of a rock.

Woden's beard, it was her they were after. The maid.

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

Yeah, Jade was chasing me in a fancy limo—it was like a nightmare

A brush of green olive paste is worth pursuing.

Gradually, therefore, Tientietnikov grew more at home in the Service. Yet never did it become, for him, the main pursuit, the main object in life, which he had expected. No, it remained but one of a secondary kind. That is to say, it served merely to divide up his time, and enable him the more to value his hours of leisure.

Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.

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.

I live my life in pursuit of truth and beauty. It doesn't pay very well.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Due scugnizzi davano la caccia a un gatto zoppo, la cui morte avrebbe regalato alle loro magre esistenze un breve divertimento (223).

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

But just because you can never reach it, doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.

The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.