Quotes About Pursuit

the story of a quest for wealth, given enough time, will always seem like the vain pursuit of a mirage.

As soon as we are born, we are part of an endless search that really goes nowhere.

She follows the putrid cloud downstairs and

If you wanna get there, just follow the sound of the drums. Things seem to just sway and move constantly.

In judging of them, he judged leniently; the whole bias of his profession had taught him to think that they were more sinned against than sinning, and that the animosity with which they had been pursued was venomous and unjust; but he had not the less regarded their plight as most miserable.

follow after love, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. What did that mean? Love. Aye, yet one must find it before one could follow it. As for spiritual gifts, they would undoubtedly be agreeable possessions though of limited use if they led only to prophesying.

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.

What affirmation and denial are in the case of thinking, pursuit and avoidance are in the case of longing for something.

Excellence, much labored for by the race of mortals.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason is the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

This is the main question, with what activity one's leisure is filled.

Many people pursue a regular and uninterrupted course of idleness in the evenings because they think that there is no alternative to idleness but the study of literature; and they do not happen to have a taste for literature. This is a great mistake.

The point, you see, is not the answers themselves, but the mental development we enjoy through striving for those answers.

Come, Watson, come! he cried. The game is afoot.

How do you know that? I followed you. I saw no one. That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.

Holmes: I followed you. Sterndale: I saw no one. Holmes: That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.

From the instant that we passed the rise, we could no longer see the vehicle, but we hastened onward at such a pace that my sedentary life began to tell upon me, and I was compelled to fall behind. Holmes, however, was always in training, for he had inexhaustible stores of nervous energy upon which to draw.

what the behavior of men themselves reveals as the purpose and object of their lives, what they demand of life and wish to attain in it. The answer to this can hardly be in doubt: they seek happiness, they want to become happy and remain so.

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

It is not a matter of approaching a fixed limit: absolute Knowledge or the happiness of man or the perfection of beauty; all human effort would then be doomed to failure, for with each step forward the horizon recedes a step; for man it is a matter of pursuing the expansion of his existence and of retrieving this very effort as an absolute. Science

We think that if man gives himself up to an indefinite pursuit of the future he will lose his existence without ever recovering it; he then resembles a madman who runs after his shadow.

I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.

A hunter in love with his prey.

After running for my life from hunters, a girl with too much lip gloss doesn't register on my fear radar.