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Quotes About Chase

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
I run with the hunted.
~ Charles Bukowski
if the rest of the world could see you today their laughter would bring the sun to its knees and even the flowers would leap from the ground like bulldogs and chase you away to where you belong wherever that is, and who cares where it is as long as it's somewhere away from here.
~ Charles Bukowski
I've got to get back to the typewriter, I thought. Art takes discipline. Any asshole can chase a skirt. I drank, thinking about it. At
~ Charles Bukowski
I'm going flat out at maybe a hundred and fifty kilometers per hour on the autobahn while some joker is shooting at me from behind with a cannon that fires Porsches and Mercedes.
~ Charles Stross
We'll find him, Willy.
~ Chet Cunningham
A fox must be chased away first; after that the hen might be warned against wandering into the bush.
~ Chinua Achebe
JP Morgan Chase's investment in our firm is a logical outgrowth of our longstanding relationship.
~ Linda Johnson Rice
Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder…
~ Thoreau
Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulders...
~ Thoreau David
For what it's worth, I think happiness is a fleeting condition, not a permanent state of goddamn mind. I've learned that if you chase after moments of bliss here and there, sometimes those moments will sustain you through the shit.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish
~ Timothy Zahn
I gave chase, and he took a shot at me, so I did the only thing I could in the circumstances…. I stabbed him in the shoulder.
~ Kerry Greenwood
If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.
~ Kevin Smith
You can't outrun the inevitable.
~ Kim Johnson
They race from us! Only to find us sooner.
~ Kindred, League of Legends
Halt!" Sin jerked his head to see Roger of Warrington in the crowd. The knight was staring straight at the Scotswoman. She met Roger's gaze over the heads of those surrounding her, then grabbed her brother's hand and started running through the crowd in the opposite direction. "Halt, I say!" Roger shouted louder. "Oh, that's effective," Sin said sarcastically. "Halt or I shall say halt again." -Roger, Callie & Jamie, & Sin
~ Kinley MacGregor
If it ran, a Bean would shoot it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it.
~ Carolyn Chute
Evolutionary biologists have identified a rule they call the life/dinner principle. A predator puts less effort into the chase than its prey: if the hunter fails it loses only its dinner, if the hunted fails it loses its life.
~ George Monbiot
She remembered the godswood, drooping branches heavy with moisture, and the sound of her brother's laughter as he chased her through piles of damp leaves.
~ George R.R. Martin
I am running to and you are running from, and there's a world of difference there.
~ George R.R. Martin
The best doctor is the one you run for and can't find.
~ Denis Diderot
What shadows we are, what shadows we pursue!
~ Edmund Burke
His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises clean. But he does not care to do so, or does not care enough(72).
~ J.M. Coetzee