Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit. — Branch Rickey Copy Share Image
I am deeply disturbed by the senseless violence instigated by some leaders in pursuit of their personal political agenda. — Mwai Kibaki Copy Share Image
The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There needs to be a ruthlessness in the pursuit otherwise the first sign of a challenge and you just give up! — Bugzy Malone Copy Share Image
Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
You know, American citizens, I don't think, ever thought that the right to the pursuit of happiness did not include the right… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The classical allusions and the Platonic disquisitions on beauty are no longer a form of cover, but integral to Aschenbach's complex sexuality.… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under… — Joan Sutherland Copy Share Image
Psychological wealth includes life satisfaction, the feeling that life is full of meaning, a sense of engagement in interesting activities, the pursuit… — Ed Diener Copy Share Image
I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Giving peace a chance only gives Saddam Hussein more time to prepare for war on his terms, at a time of his… — John McCain Copy Share Image
My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
With us the inner nature accords with the outer expectation. The body follows the mind, and the mind seeks the soul, which… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
Friends given by God in mercy and in love; My counsellors, my comforters, and guides; My joy in grief, my second bliss… — Robert Pollok Copy Share Image
The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The reason I stopped modeling was because I was not pleased with trying to portray something that is impossible to reach. Even… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes,… — Thomas Hardy 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
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self… — Hettie Jones Copy Share Image
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
The pursuit by the Iranian regime of nuclear weapons represents a direct threat to the entire international community, including to the United… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge. — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
“The kind of soil in your area determines the type of crop you will plant to harvest; The kind of potentials in… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In any field, the Establishment is seldom in pursuit of the truth, because it is composed of those who sincerely believe that… — Edwin Thompson Jaynes Copy Share Image
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful. — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness. — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
