In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning… — Suzanne Vega 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
In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
... those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded... Sad,… — Herbert Spencer 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
There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay… — Tom Schulman 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
Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge. — Ta-Nehisi Coates 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
Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A historic, in-depth study of what it means to risk one's life to be an artist. It is also a depiction of… — Sandra Hochman Copy Share Image
The excellence and inspiration of truth is in the pursuit, not in the mere having of it. The pursuit of all truth… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Your pursuit of personal greatness challenges others to fear for their own causes, their own battles and pursuits. Your freedom is a… — James Victore Copy Share Image
There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Cassandra sat on the floor with Chris and Kat, playing Life. They had tried to play Trivial Pursuit earlier only to learn… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you… — Grimes Copy Share Image
You know, an idea is just an idea. There seems to... the kind of epiphanies that you have, like the little sudden… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
That is why we fly from the inner void, since God might steal into it. It is not the pursuit of pleasure… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
