“The kind of soil in your area determines the type of crop you will plant to harvest; The kind of potentials in… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
The pursuit by the Iranian regime of nuclear weapons represents a direct threat to the entire international community, including to the United… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In any field, the Establishment is seldom in pursuit of the truth, because it is composed of those who sincerely believe that… — Edwin Thompson Jaynes Copy Share Image
For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Professional players work almost every day, for hours on end, and the emphasis is on the word 'work.' It can be with… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man.… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the… — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Copy Share Image
What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Here's what I believe is sexy at work: being strong and committed and confident, being precisely who you are and in hot… — Charlotte Beers Copy Share Image
Capote, of course, addressed very similar themes to Good Night and Good Luck. Both films are about determined journalists defying obstacles in… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
Swarmers run the risk of skittering like water bugs on the surface of life. By being quickly and constantly connected, they can… — Joel Garreau Copy Share Image
Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching committment to… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Some persons can give themselves away to an ambitious pursuit and have that be all the giving-themselves-away-to-something they need to do. Though… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
As piety, religion and morality have a happy influence on the minds of men, in their public as well as private transactions,… — Samuel Copy Share Image
The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the… — William Wickenden Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful. — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness. — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it. — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
I am deeply disturbed by the senseless violence instigated by some leaders in pursuit of their personal political agenda. — Mwai Kibaki Copy Share Image
Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit. — Branch Rickey Copy Share Image
The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There needs to be a ruthlessness in the pursuit otherwise the first sign of a challenge and you just give up! — Bugzy Malone Copy Share Image
Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
