Pursuit Quotes · Page 10

The second you think you've arrived, someone passes you. You have to always be in pursuit.

— Joe Torre

There are no ethical boundaries to Beijing's pursuit of power.

— John Ratcliffe

I never thought I'd be using this phrase, but the pursuit of happiness - that's my right.

— Jenifer Lewis

Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.

— C. S. Lewis

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

— Mortimer Adler

The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.

— Andrew Sullivan

As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.

— Horace

When the pursuit of natural harmony is a shared journey, great heights can be attained.

— Lynn Hill

Spin the parasol three times and repeat after me: I shield in the name of fashion. I accessorize for one and all.…

— Gail Carriger

God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will…

— Anonymous

Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit...

— Stonewall Jackson

The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty.

— James Monroe

“The hounds snap fierce at your heels. Turn toward Athens. I hear them pelting hard on you, I see black flesh and…

— Euripides

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of…

— Mario Cuomo

When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits.

— Gary Gygax

The fruits eaten temperately need not make us ashamed of our appetites, nor interrupt the worthiest pursuits. But put an extra condiment…

— Henry David Thoreau

A college which does not confer the knowledge of the Spiritual Reality to the students who are engaged in the pursuit of…

— Sai Baba

When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera…

— Naomi Wolf

There are two kinds of intelligence in this world. People who are Monopoly smart and people who are Trivial Pursuit smart... If…

— Christian Finnegan

People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they…

— Leo Tolstoy

(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that…

— Nick Hornby

The pursuit of happiness is a matter of choice...it is a positive attitude we choose to express. It is not a gift…

— Charles R. Swindoll

The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her;…

— Gina Barreca

The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth. When this pursuit is no longer a personal yearning but part of state…

— Petr Skrabanek

“What strikes me now as the most wonderful proof of my fitness, or unfitness, for the times is the fact that nothing…

— Henry Miller

Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power…

— Bertrand Russell

Violence appears to be most commonly a result of threatened egotism -- that is, highly favorable views of self that are disputed…

— Roy Baumeister

It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When…

— Frank Luntz

I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit…

— Errol Flynn

Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction cannot give…

— Zhuangzi

Acquisition of [higher] knowledge is not the end, but the means to the end; the end consists of the attainment, thanks to…

— Rudolf Steiner

In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is…

— Thomas Sowell

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

— John Maynard Keynes

Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.

— Vince Lombardi

You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights.

— Jerry Garcia

Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution.

— Peter Drucker

Architects are by nature and pursuit, leaders and teachers.

— Samuel

Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.

— Preston Manning

Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.

— Elbert Hubbard