I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Our bodies are held captive, but our pursuit of freedom cannot be contained. — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Slow down in your pursuit of happiness and it's more likely to catch up with you. — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
That is our generation's task, to make these works, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There is no sure-fire way to get rich quickly. In fact, the pursuit of that usually leads to ruin. — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
We all know there are vast differences between Trump and Trudeau as people, but we need to separate that from the pursuit… — Erin O'Toole Copy Share Image
“I'm not in pursuit of happiness, I'm happiness in pursuit; ready to happen everywhere I go.” — Bernard Kelvin Clive Copy Share Image
Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become… — Steve Backley Copy Share Image
The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means that each of us is free to go our own way,… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Sisterhood is powerful. Woman can support each other as women, in their pursuit for enlightenment or anything else, without fear. But as… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I won't have the sacks of a Mark Gastineau and I won't get all those pursuit tackles. Our responsibilities are different. He's… — Howie Long Copy Share Image
“This pursuit requires sustained, vigorous effort. It allows for no indolence, no lethargy, no halfhearted commitment, and no laissez- faire attitude toward… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, 'Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,' served as my muse for 'The Painted Girls.' I came upon a television documentary… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything you say; every thought you entertain; and everything you do has a direction, which serves as an advance or a retreat… — Gary Ryan Copy Share Image
Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Does the pursuit of truth give you as much pleasure as before? Surely it is not the knowing but the learning, not… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Mastery requires endurance. Mastery, a word we don’t use often, is not the equivalent of what we might consider its cognate—perfectionism—an inhuman… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
Olive Ann describes Sanna as 'a perfectionist and a worrier.' She is obsessed with the idea of finding happiness, and for her,… — Olive Ann Burns Copy Share Image
“In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement… — Charles MacKay Copy Share Image
If we feel that any habit or pursuit, harmless in itself, is keeping us from God and sinking us deeper in the… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
