Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever really pursued telling my story, but I think things come to you at the right time. — Charisma Carpenter Copy Share Image
“A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
I'd rather have a second-best decision diligently pursued than a first-best decision lackadaisically pursued. — Tom Landry Copy Share Image
You make choices, as a young man. I knew I wanted to be an actor, so I pursued that, but the desire… — Holt McCallany Copy Share Image
Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely may be pursued too keenly may cost too much. — Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild Copy Share Image
But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, good liberals both, pursued power by offering their candidacies as opportunities for Americans to document their innocence… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
a writer's first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
The second German secret weapon is anti-Semitism, because if it is consistently pursued by Germany, it will become a universal problem which… — Robert Ley Copy Share Image
I haven't pursued it as a senator because I know it's like spitting in the wind. But I still believe it's the… — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
'Pierrot le Fou' is something I keep coming back to. It's so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
My present and most fixed opinion regarding the nature of alcoholic fermentation is this: The chemical act of fermentation is essentially a… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
“Slowly, reluctantly, he stepped out of my pathway. But just as I was about to step through the door, he slipped in… — Laurelin Paige Copy Share Image
I myself have loved a lady and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation, whom some three or four gallants… — John Webster Copy Share Image
A duped newspaper or magazine could contend that a fiction-spouting journalist obtained part of his salary via fraud, and use a criminal… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
As South Korea shows, active participation in international trade does not require free trade. Indeed, had South Korea pursued free trade and… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
