“The pursuit of love seemed to need the cultivation of indifference.” — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. — William James Copy Share Image
By peace our condition has been improved in the pursuit of civilized life. — John Ross Copy Share Image
Photographers undervalue the use of the wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography. — Ralph Steiner Copy Share Image
You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time. — Ed Bliss Copy Share Image
What is it that's taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
Read the Declaration of Independence to your children as a tradition every Fourth of July. Make sure they understand why the word… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Be like a tree in pursuit of your cause. Stand firm, grip hard, thrust upward. Bend to the winds of heaven. And… — Richard St. Barbe Baker Copy Share Image
The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which follows; not that which is run after. It is that popularity which, sooner… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Copy Share Image
Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk rock. The idea of challenging authority… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes… — Robert Sheaffer Copy Share Image
The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration our whole being senses its kinship to God and leaps up… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I never see God. I seldom run into visual clues that remind me of God unless I am looking. The act of… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A rentier is an investor whose relationship to a company or enterprise is strictly limited to the ownership of financial wealth (such… — Doug Henwood Copy Share Image
Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Its guilt therefore in these cases, is not to be measure by its effects on the happiness of mankind; nor is it… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To higher or lower ends, they [the majority of mankind] move too often with something of a sad countenance, with hurried and… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
The vegetarian movement ought to fill with gladness the souls of those who have at heart the realization of God's kingdom upon… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
What evil does first in the world, maybe, is distract us from our pursuit of goodness. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Trust is a careless pursuit at best. At worst, it's a good way to get yourself killed. — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
Possessing talent is nothing more than the continuous pursuit of a life-long interest. — Bob Ross Copy Share Image
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