I am suggesting that we spend a little less time in idleness, in the fruitless pursuit of watching inane and empty television… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Psychological wealth includes life satisfaction, the feeling that life is full of meaning, a sense of engagement in interesting activities, the pursuit… — Ed Diener 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
Read the Declaration of Independence to your children as a tradition every Fourth of July. Make sure they understand why the word… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Surfing is one of the most joyful pursuits a human can take up. But there's no joy in a deadzone. If you've… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The aspirations of most people--security, pleasure, leisure, meaningful work, creative and intellectual pursuits--are to be supported. These desires and dreams are not… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them. — Henry David Thoreau 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
Ted Hastings is the guy you would hope would be part of the police. He's got his problems, but is relentless in… — Adrian Dunbar 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
I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice - and from that, all other… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond, Canada was certainly an additional option for the… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
One may ask the question as to the extent to which the quest for beauty is an aim in the pursuit of… — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
True purity, however, is a direction, a persistent, determined pursuit of righteousness. This direction starts in the heart, and we express it… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
Religions have become a hindrance, rather than a help, to our shared pursuit of peace and progress. They tend to make us… — Agnivesh Copy Share Image
“Let people be the pursuits of happiness, you be the pursuit of perfection.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise. — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Weigh risk carefully, and once you decide a risk is manageable and necessary in the pursuit of your dreams, take it. — Adrian Ballinger Copy Share Image
The measure of woman's distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
