Quotes About Pursuit

The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.

Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

She who shuns love soon will pursue it, She who scorns gifts will send them still: That girl will learn to love, though she do it Against her will.

You can have a failed quest, but you can't have an achieved quest and no reward.

You know me, Bobby--I have an instinct for crime. Where evil flourishes, there I will be, on my self-appointed mission to stamp it out.

Catch me if you can -A

Look - guys are dogs. Women have known this since the beginning of time. Guys don't want to be chased; they chase. So if you're going to catch one, you have to know how to make him chase you.

Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in their reach inward, via print, for a way out of loneliness.

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

You can't predict how much time you will get to embrace your opportunity. You have to go after it with everything you have in you, sacrifice and believe.

I realize that I won't have quite enough time to understand everything - but that hasn't stopped me wanting to understand as much as I can.

There were a couple of years where I was skating and acting at the same time.

In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.

We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so.

A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.

You don't have to be perfect, but you have to try hard. And I did all the time.

Brilliant, inspiring . . . if you are on a pursuit of self-mastery, make time to read this!

I always told my mother I wanted a job where I could have a lot of fun and have a lot of time off. She asked me where I was going to find that, and I said, 'I don't know, but it's out there.

It's while it's being lived that life is immortal, while it's still alive. Immortality is not a matter of more or less time, its not really a question of immortality but of something else that remains unknown. It's as untrue to say it's without beginning or end as to say it begins and ends with the life of the spirit, since it partakes both of the spirit and of the pursuit of the void.

Insomnia, then, is not just a state of sleeplessness, a matter of negatives. It involves the active pursuit of sleep. It is a state of longing.

Moreover, Galileo argued that by pursuing science using the language of mechanical equilibrium and mathematics, humans could understand the divine mind.

Early on he had been told the famous maxim of American justice, that it was better that a hundred men go free than that one innocent man be punished. Struck almost dumb by the beauty of the concept, he became an ardent patriot. America was his country. He would never leave America.

I wanted to be an educated, liberated woman. And if the pursuit of knowledge meant getting cancer, so be it.

Satisfaction involves an active pursuit- it is the emotional reward we get after adapting to a new situation or solving a novel problem.