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Quotes About Pursuit

And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.
~ Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Let danger never turn you aside from the pursuit of honor or the service to your country ... Know that death is inevitable and the fame of virtue is immortal
~ Robert E. Lee
If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.
~ A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
I hope you find what you're looking for.
~ Steve McQueen
Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!
~ Coventry Patmore
That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and freedom.
~ Dennis Kucinich
The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing.
~ Daniel Goleman
Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to arduous and painful labors.
~ Santiago Ramon y Cajal
The pursuit of historical relevance is an under appreciated endeavor.
~ Michael Dwinnell
The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
~ Oscar Wilde
'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!
~ Ezra Pound
The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.
~ Henry Fielding
Many of us are hunting mice - while lions devour the land.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
It's the Kalkara. they're hunting.
~ John Flanagan
It's like hunting cows
~ Jon Stewart
Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.
~ Josh Billings
I've gone out with my shotgun. This is hunting country out there. You better run.
~ Lou Reed
I'm always pursuing the next dream, hunting for the next truth.
~ Stanley Kramer
If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.
~ William Maxwell
Ambition is what gives birth to imagination and then imagination directs the bearing towards its pursuit.
~ Newton Gatambia
Read the Declaration of Independence to your children as a tradition every Fourth of July. Make sure they understand why the word "pursuit" precedes the word "happiness."
~ Jeff Bezos
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.
~ Nora Roberts
You've got to follow that dream, wherever that dream may lead.
~ Elvis Presley
It's time to start living the life you've imagined.
~ Henry James