Quotes About Pursuit

I watched the mirror for black sedans as we pulled away, and checked every side street as we drove to the freeway. I looked for their big black beast as we climbed the ramp, and kept looking, even after the freeway swallowed us, a buffalo joining a herd, one hiding among the many, and finally safe.

the police could follow him without dogs or helicopters. As we banged down the stairs, I said, "There's a trail works south through the mountains to a subdivision above

POLLARD CALLED IT the blood tingle. She blasted up the Hollywood Freeway, high-fiving the dashboard and pumping her fist, feeling the electric buzz in her fingers and legs that had always come with making a breakthrough in a case—the blood tingle.

Pike made the Corolla for an early '90s model. It was dark brown in color with mismatched wheels and rusty acne on the trunk. Pike copied the plate number. He stayed between three and four cars behind, only tightening up when the Corolla beat him through an intersection and traffic began to slow.

To understand the peculiar power of the Coquette, you must first understand a critical property of love and desire: the more obviously you pursue a person, the more likely you are to chase them away. Too much attention can be interesting for a while, but it soon grows cloying and finally becomes claustrophobic and frightening. It signals weakness and neediness, an unseductive combination.

To understand the peculiar power of the Coquette, you must first understand a critical property of love and desire: the more obviously you pursue a person, the more likely you are to chase them away.

I was having coffee with my bodyguard. I didn't expect to be hunting bad guys until later. Leather before sundown is tacky.

a few false turns, we found ourselves looking

If you are looking for something, don't go sit on the seashore and expect it to come and find you; you must search, search, search with all the stubbornness in you!

Mariketa: Stalking me, Mr MacRieve? Bowen: No' likely, witch. I only stalk what I want to catch.

Never run from one such as me, female." Her attacker didn't sound human. "You will no' get away. And we like it." His voice was guttural like a beast's, yet his accent was . . . Scottish?

I will find you," he bit out. "I will find you and make you pay for this a thousand times." The bright one leapt up and caught Myst's forefinger with her own. "Sounds like he's setting up a date," she said as she dangled. "Oooom," Myst purred, her gaze flickering over him. "Dress casual.

Never run from one such as me." Her attacker didn't sound human. "You will no' get away. And we like it.

I see the search for objectivity in the social sciences as something along the lines of Zen enlightenment: I don't personally expect to achieve either of them, but I do find the pursuit worthwhile.

I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.

If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men do not live to breathe: they breathe to live.

The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place in a church setting.

Life, liberty and the pursuit of gratitude, now that would've worked. They would have been readily led to contentment, which would've then better lead them on to happiness.

The treasure shouldn't do the hunting, and you're a treasure.

I get really restless if I'm not working. I generate or try to generate my own stuff. I'm constantly on the prowl for working with the people I love and respect.

Find me now. Before someone else does.