Quotes About Pursuit

We followed it to the right until it turned left.

The pleasure of the text is that moment when my body pursues its own ideas—for my body does not have the same ideas as I do.

A whole bunch of things happened. Moynahan and the Cadillac driver spun around and around, trying to see it all. Trying to stay eyes-on. First the right-hand helicopter pounced ahead on a wide track to the east, sliding in again behind the town and heading due south, full speed, which was pretty damn fast.

Reacher killed the lights and squeezed back through the slit in the plastic. He crossed the empty

The west end guy peeled away from his window and started walking. Heading east. Fifteen feet behind Rutherford. Moving with loose, rangy ease. He was clearly having to shorten his stride to avoid overtaking his mark. Ahead of them a woman had stopped at the edge of the sidewalk to tend to a child in a stroller. Beyond her a couple stood, talking. They were dressed for the gym. Just regular folks. Not part of the pattern. Unaware of what was happening.

organize. I ran to the far end of the corridor.

yards ahead of him, his gun in his right

17. Un hombre buscado (A Wanted Man)

We'll find you,' Emerson said. 'You won't,' Reacher said. 'Nobody ever has before.' Then

While coolness in disaster is the supreme proof of a commander's courage, energy in pursuit is the surest test of his strength of will. Wavell.

He only wanted to have as much peace and quiet in his life as possible. He simply didn't realize that pursuing peace and quiet was a full-time, nerve-rattling job.

God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him. Those who want to follow the clues will.

God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him. Those who want to follow the clues will. "The Bible says, 'Seek and you shall find.'9 It doesn't say everybody will find him; it doesn't say nobody will find him. Some will find. Who? Those who seek. Those whose hearts are set on finding him and who follow the clues.

We come closer then to doing justice to both aspects of Xenophon's work—Socratic and non-Socratic—and to bringing to light their possible unity, by suggesting that Xenophon may have been one who pursued the Socratic question of the best way of life without ever coming to accept completely the Socratic answer that that way of life is the philosophic one.

In the end, though he learned how to run an observatory, he fell in love with a different pursuit, the idea of applying the mathematical tools of astronomy to social data.

The search for truth and the desire for beauty were the twin ideals he strove to attain. The keenness of this pursuit saved him from the blemish of egoism which aloofness from his surroundings would otherwise have forced upon him.

Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman?

You don't have to be great to get started but you have to get started to be great.

Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.

WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge. In another moment

I fear I will always have to chase the things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for.

Retribution is a dog chasing its tail.

chasing after words like trying to grab the tails of comets.

La vida no viene a buscarte, Memphis. Tienes que ir tú a por ella. Los dos tenemos que ir a por ella. Porque nadie va a servírnosla en bandeja.