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Quotes About Pursuit

Dijiste que yo te había matado, ¡pues entonces persígueme! Las víctimas persiguen a sus asesinos.
~ Emily Bronte
None cannot find who seeketh, on this terrestrial ball...
~ Emily Dickinson
The heaven we chase
~ Emily Dickinson
You can run but you can't hide
~ Emily Giffin
He aprendido que eres tú quien forja tu propia felicidad, que una parte de ir a por lo que quieres significa perder otras cosas. Y cuando las apuestas son altas, las pérdidas también pueden ser igualmente altas.
~ Emily Giffin
which was a bit like a mouse chasing a cat, a giant mutant cat with laser eyes and a bellyful of smaller spiteful cats.
~ Eoin Colfer
Deacon laughs. 'People like you and me, Dan, trouble sniffs us out. Maybe you can hide out for a while, maybe even a few years, but eventually someone needs to be saved or someone needs to be killed.
~ Eoin Colfer
Volg de bollen. - Turf
~ Eoin Colfer
By the time his vision had settled, the dwarf had disappeared into a maelstrom of churning muck. Butler decided not to attempt pursuit. Dying below ground was not very high on this *things to do* list. But there will be another day, fairy, he thought grimly. And there was to be. But that's another story.
~ Eoin Colfer
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
~ Epictetus
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
~ Eric Hoffer
Patience is a byproduct of growth - we can bide our time when it is the time of our growth. There is no patience in acquisition or in the pursuit of power and fame. Nothing is so impatient as the pursuit of a substitute for growth.
~ Eric Hoffer
But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.
~ Eric Wright
I want to chase the butterflies.
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
A man chases a woman until she catches him.
~ American Proverb
Vanitarianism (n.) The pursuing of vanities. Only one citation is provided for this word, and it comes, rather unsurprisingly, from Thackeray, a writer who seems to have an unreasoning fondness for the word vanity. also
~ Ammon Shea
In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.
~ Amy Grant
Join us in our pursuit for what is right in God's eyes.
~ Andrea Davis Pinkney
I was born into this world without knowing what life was all about. Only power promised fulfillment in life, and I have pursued it--long enough to recognize that it's a false promise and that this road leads to nothing. But I tried. Even if we get no answers to our questions, it is the inalienable right of every living being to search for them--by all means, on all paths, and with all strength. What I did was only what I had a right to do.
~ Andreas Eschbach
The search for happiness is often fraught with many twists and turns, each one challenging our belief that we can truly find nirvana. Andreas Simic
~ Andreas Simic
To seek perfection is to seek insanity, for even nature knows no such thing exists. To pursue it is an exercise in a lasting sense of failure with little reward at the end of the day.
~ Andreas Simic
Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
~ Andrew Bernstein
As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.
~ Andrew Delbanco