Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition. — Jason Isaacs Copy Share Image
Don't pursue something because you 'want to be great.' Pursue something because it fascinates you, because the pursuit itself engages and compels… — Justine Musk Copy Share Image
What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind? — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
A line I like to use is, "Every day is training. Every day of life is a pursuit of perfection." — Jonathan Horton Copy Share Image
If you believe, like I do, that the world is abundant with possibilities, then we need to make sure we build capacity… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I… — Dan Castellaneta Copy Share Image
You know what made us the biggest, meanest, Big Mac eating, calorie-counting, world-dominating kick-ass powerhouse country in the history of the human… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
The time of reckoning will at length arrive. And when finallly summoned to the bar of God, to give an account of… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Self must be denied as to time and attention for prayer. All-prayer cannot be wielded without the expenditure of time. "A minute… — Walter J Chantry Copy Share Image
In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
I feel more voluntary about my pleasures and pains than the average American who has his needs dictated by Madison Avenue (my… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that carry over into intellectual pursuits and that lead to effective study and work habits.… — Michael E. DeBakey Copy Share Image
Still, I wonder if more women artists, musicians and writers aren't household names because we don't have enough faith in our own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a… — William Rawle Copy Share Image
We must not suppose that, because a man is a rational animal, he will, therefore, always act rationally; or, because he has… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. ...under the republican forms… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“But life is a lot more balanced and varied now. My competitive nature has softened, and my drive and determination are channelled… — Chrissie Wellington Copy Share Image
More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The great object of life is Sensation - to feel that we exist - even though in pain - it is this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
“Despite all of our incessant tinkering, we can’t manufacture the things we most desperately need. And if perchance we do, they will… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
My week is full-tilt boogie. I wake up every morning, and the singular thought in my head is that maybe today is… — Lyor Cohen Copy Share Image
As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts, I am all about the truth and I am all about… — Luke Scott Copy Share Image
Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If youre a sportsman or youre a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under… — Joan Sutherland 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
Where man had been, in every place he left, garbage remained. Even in his pursuit of the ultimate truth and quest for… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word,… — Epictetus 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
Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I was very ambitious. It all started because my first boyfriend dumped me when I was 14. I'd always wanted to be… — Jane March Copy Share Image
The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Government can ensure that we share schools and streets and lunch counters and buses and elevators and theaters, but let us never… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image