Quotes About Pursuit

For how could we do what justice requires if we are distracted by things that don't matter, if we are naive, gullible, inconstant? 11. It's the pursuit of these things, and your attempts to avoid them, that leave you in such turmoil. And yet they aren't seeking you out; you are the one seeking them. Suspend judgment about them. And at once they will lie still, and you will be freed from fleeing and pursuing.

17. El perseguir imposibles es locura. Y es imposible que los malvados no cometan tales acciones.

He also that pursues after pleasures, as that which is truly good and flies from pains, as that which is truly evil: is impious.

Medita en los principios rectores de otros[260], de qué huyen y qué persiguen.

There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.

Confronted by too much emptiness, said Adam One, the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?

Dream steals from its lair towards its prey.

miles per hour, eighty-five, and still the sedan stayed behind

Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You're seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you're worth.

The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect. The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.

A hobby is only fun if you don't have time to do it.

I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.

Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

Looking and not finding is certainly one of the most frustrating ways to spend time.

Every time I see a certain room to grow, or a new opportunity to advance further, I go out and take it.

Downs did not blunt her pursuit of excellence at Moon Valley High. Her intelligence was part of her armor against the world. Her name on the honor roll bolstered her still fragile ego.

She must be found for all that," said he, "and shall, if I have to send out Q." "Q?" "An agent of mine who is a living interrogation point; so we call him Q, which is short for query.

S? meriÈ›i fericirea înseamn? s? munceÈ™ti pentru ea.

that the dream must be vivid and continuous.

I had to have him, had to. Just the way I had to have everything I wanted; or had to do everything I'd ever wanted to do.

I reach now for a victim who is not easy for me to overcome: my own past. Perhaps this victim will flee from me with a speed that equals my own. Whatever, I seek now a victim that I have never faced. And there is a thrill of the hunt in it, what the modern world calls investigation.

to sputter and giggle—Baby too. "I followed my piss!" I said between hiccupping laughter. "She followed her piss and her dreams came true!" Rachel screamed. "Follow your piss, Obi-Wan Kenobi," Barbara intoned.

I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in the first place.