Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of… — Douglas B. Reeves Copy Share Image
Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
the compulsion to work long years in pursuit of some inner vision must be fueled by stubborn fires. — Silvia Tennenbaum Copy Share Image
The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I wasn't in the drama department, but I auditioned anyway and he not only cast me but also included a few sketches… — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
We live in a society which on the one hand pressurizes us into the pursuit of instant gratification, and the other hand… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut… — Horace Copy Share Image
“You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
Like for Einstein, and for people who create nuclear weapons, the problem with the pursuit of knowledge and the pursuit of the… — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
My parents taught me that I could do anything I wanted and I have always believed it to be true. Add a… — Pete Goss Copy Share Image
No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The purpose of Sabbath is not simply to rejuvenate yourself in order to do more production, nor is it the pursuit of… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone.… — John Hall Gladstone Copy Share Image
Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
One the one hand, our economists treat human beings as rational actors making choices to maximize their own economic benefit. On the… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
Ways of loving from a distance, mating without even touching-Amor platonicus! The ladder of love one is expected to climb higher and… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
Success comes when we wake up every day in that never-ending pursuit of why we do what we do. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels. — Saadi Copy Share Image
If one were truly aware of the value of human life, to waste it blithely on distractions and the pursuit of vulgar… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on… — Anita Hill Copy Share Image
Leaving home' to me means adopting the attitude that the pursuit of the truth is more vital than the pursuit of what… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make… — Thandie Newton Copy Share Image
Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit… — William Blake Copy Share Image
When the mind soars in pursuit of the things conceived in space...it pursues emptiness; but when man dives deep within himself, he… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our goals should serve as markers, measurements of the progress we make in pursuit of something greater than ourselves. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
All basic scientists who look to the NCI for funding should know that I will tolerate no retreat on the study of… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained. — Agnes Meyer Driscoll Copy Share Image
People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit. — James Madison Copy Share Image
