Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
Although our capacities to advance our interests are limited, we should be active and constructive in pursuit of a peaceful and favourable… — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you… — Grimes Copy Share Image
They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals. — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
If you devote yourself entirely to a pursuit, there is no way you cannot find beauty and fulfillment. — Daniel Gillies Copy Share Image
Not that I don't think irreverent humor and someone being filthy is funny, I just do what I do. Any comedian would… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
The circling horse was an oblique warning that i would repeat the same mistake eternally. Would the law of averages allow it?… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
Everybody enjoys arguing about the current state of music because it feels as if you are talking about something incredibly important, yet… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut… — Horace Copy Share Image
We live in a society which on the one hand pressurizes us into the pursuit of instant gratification, and the other hand… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I liked the idea of a self-contained, endless pursuit of perfection. But I have a problem with perfection. I don't think perfection… — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. ...under the republican forms… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Surely, if it is the right of the people to "alter or abolish," it is their right to criticize, even severely, policies… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Yes, the pursuit of love and the pursuit of wealth have much in common. Both have the potential to inspire, motivate, uplift… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Justice requires lawyers who are prepared, witnesses who tell the truth, judges who know the law, and jurors who stay awake. Justice… — Paul Levine Copy Share Image
The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“But life is a lot more balanced and varied now. My competitive nature has softened, and my drive and determination are channelled… — Chrissie Wellington Copy Share Image
I find that I can have no enjoyment in the world but the continual drinking of knowledge. I find there is no… — John Keats Copy Share Image
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Whatever pursuit you undertake, the requirements should start with a love of what it is that you are pursuing. — Bill Toomey Copy Share Image
So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Trivial Pursuit means that you've got nothing going on in your life. Trivial Pursuit is more than a board game. It is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion. — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't. — Sean Covey Copy Share Image
It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable. — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits. — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
“The only urgent thing in life is the pursuit of love. You get that one right, and you've solved the mystery.” — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it. — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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