One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Rest is valuable only so far as it is a contrast. Pursued as an end, it becomes a most pitiable condition. — David Swing Copy Share Image
When I retired from active duty, I still felt that I owed something to my community. That's why I pursued education... I… — Paul Cook Copy Share Image
Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
If you pursued something that you felt strongly about, then I call that success. — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
I love to be pursued. I think that when you're not a challenge, it's just nnot as fun for the guy. — Eva Longoria Copy Share Image
The foolish took their lamps, but took no oil (pursued ministry as their priority over getting oil). The wise took oil in… — Mike Bickle Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It's not like a corporate job where the more you accumulate on your resume and the more hours you put in, the… — Jason Marsden Copy Share Image
There's a certain kind of cultural energy pursued by the gatekeepers of elite discourse, who want to argue that Americans fundamentally agree… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may often assume the appearance and produce the effects of a treasonable correspondence with… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Most important of all, to be successful in life demands that a man make a personal commitment to excellence and to victory,… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training. — Jane Haddam Copy Share Image
My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
You will have Time, that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it. — James Hilton Copy Share Image
The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a… — Plato Copy Share Image
I never pursued anything but acting. But as a kid, I was really interested in the Supreme Court. I wanted to to… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
The Oneida Perfectionists, along with some of the others, believed that feminism, and abolitionism, and other causes that they pursued in their… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Acting happened to me. If I had pursued it, I think it would have been like someone going to a bar, desperately… — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
We pursued the wrong policies. George Bush is not on the ballot. Bill Clinton is not on the ballot. Mitt Romney is… — Glenn Hubbard Copy Share Image
If God exists then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling can matter forever. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles. — Randy West Copy Share Image
Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image