The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
We all must die. There is no better way to do so than in the pursuit of something you love. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I came from anonymity, and I will continue to write as a private pursuit. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for… — Lance Loud 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
This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Composing is what drives me; it's not the pursuit of fame. My songs are like pages in a diary. — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
Be like a tree in pursuit of your cause. Stand firm, grip hard, thrust upward. Bend to the winds of heaven. And… — Richard St. Barbe Baker Copy Share Image
“People enjoy convincing others, if others are wrong they convince them towards right, if others are already right they still want to… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves. — Charles Tomlinson Copy Share Image
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
The Western societies which espouse free market capitalism survive by the pursuit of greed and, in their own way, like Communism, throw… — Davis McCaughey Copy Share Image
The collapse of the Tower of Babel is perhaps the central urban myth. It is certainly the most disquieting. In Babylon, the… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became… — Julian Sands 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
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
He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, 'till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn, and hope… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happinesse and, being by essence empty ("étant vide par essence", Fr.),… — African Spir Copy Share Image
We should be active leaders in the fight for civil liberties which adequately reflect present social realities. Furthermore the left as a… — Joseph Muscat Copy Share Image
In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
It may seem paradoxical to say that we have been expelled from the present, but it is a feeling we have all… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Market forces have no intrinsically moral direction, which is why, before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
How can anyone be interested in war? - that glorious pursuit of annihilation with its ceremonious bellowings and trumpetings over the mangling… — Margaret Caroline Anderson Copy Share Image
I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept. — Jonny Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
For the freedoms our founding fathers not only dreamed about, but made into reality. It is that same pursuit of freedom today… — John M. McHugh Copy Share Image
It's been said racing encompasses hours of agony and moments of glory. But moments like the 1978 Triple Crown inspire the pursuit… — Steve Cauthen Copy Share Image
It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do,… — Steve Garvey Copy Share Image