Quotes About Pursuit

It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.

Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet alone. To this end she had founded the Lunch Club, an association composed of herself and several other indomitable huntresses of erudition.

What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!

I was a student of the civil law; but my soul was inflamed with the love of letters;

with this? Do you live as if this is true? Let's keep going. The Bible isn't just about heaven and only for the by-and-by. It is gritty and real. It is about messed-up people and the way God pursues them. The Bible describes real life—with its ups and downs and our stubborn quests for independence—better than anything

Then what do you want with me?'... 'The pursuit of happiness.

The prosperity of the wicked will appear at the last day to have often been the most dreadful judgment, and a state in which they were goaded on in the pursuit of their evil courses; whilst, on the contrary, it will then be manifested to all men that the afflictions of the saints have been the greatest effects of divine mercy.

Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.

Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

All night I flee from someone. I lead the chase, I lead the fugue. I sing a song of mourning. Black birds over black shrouds. My brain cries.

I do nothing but search and not find. That's how I waste my nights.

All night I run from someone. I lead the chase. I lead the fugue.

I don't want to know anything but this perpetual wailing, this clatter in the night, this delay, this infamy, this pursuit, this inexistence.

The implicit requirements of the committed relationship Joshua was pursuing with Kimiko assumed spending Saturday nights together for the purposes of intimacy.

killed Mason and four of his men along the way. Salome had barely contained the aftermath. She knew Wells would keep coming. But did he know who she was? That Duberman was behind her? She'd spoken to

Part of the pursuit of excellence involves eliminating as many surprises as possible because life is full of the unexpected.

change who you are simply by climbing on a boat or boarding a train. Some things you cannot leave behind. Your history will pursue you doggedly across frontiers and over oceans. It will slip past the unsmiling border guards, fold itself invisibly into the pages of your passport, a silent, treacherous stowaway.

I want to get enough [money] to take off the hardships of life and leave me free to follow the ideas that interest me the most.

It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, is the supreme object to be pursued;

In search of wit these lose their common sense

Some less refined, beneath the moon's pale light Pursue the stars that shoot athwart the night

Let us look for the woman.