I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional,… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books! — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Chasing after a guy who's not interested in you will rip the hell out of your self-respect. Better to face facts now… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this… — John Redwood Copy Share Image
...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work. — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“Interpreting running as an opportunity to discover and become his best self, and to give his best to others, through the relentless… — Matt Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I look forward to working across the aisle in pursuit of our common goal to get Kansas' fiscal house in order. — Laura Kelly Copy Share Image
Such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labor and rest, hurry and retirement, endear… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver.… — Paula White Copy Share Image
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for… — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
Such is always the pursuit of knowledge. The celestial fruits, the golden apples of the Hesperides, are ever guarded by a hundred-headed… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image
Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
You are here on earth for a divine purpose. It is not to be endlessly entertained or to be constantly in full… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction cannot give… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit… — Errol Flynn Copy Share Image
The societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm. — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Veterans and serving personnel alike have been hounded by processes often not motivated by the pursuit of justice. — Penny Mordaunt Copy Share Image
As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united. — Jack London Copy Share Image
The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens. — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing… — Andrew Delbanco Copy Share Image
We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuit that does not readily let go. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit. — John Updike Copy Share Image
With all respect to Mr. Jefferson, I would put the pursuit of wisdom ahead of the pursuit of happiness. — Edmund Fuller Copy Share Image
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