And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty… — Todd Akin Copy Share Image
Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life. — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else. — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
The process of healing also needs to include the pursuit of truth, not for the sake of opening old wounds, but rather… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are still civil rights issues. There are still people who can't be visited by their spouse in the hospital because they're… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
In fact people do not know enough about themselves and what is good for them to form a sufficiently definite conception of… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Any mature, spiritually sensitive view of marriage must be built on the foundation of mature love rather than romanticism. But this immediately… — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from… — Wang Wei Copy Share Image
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I love coaching football, and winning a Super Bowl was a goal I've had for a long time. But it has never… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises… While my townsmen and women are devoted in somany ways… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Anyone who believes in the natural and inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is obliged to accept that… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
I take this for myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished with… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“Modern civilization depends on science … James Smithson was well aware that knowledge should not be viewed as existing in isolated parts,… — Joseph Henry Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that value investing is not a perfect science. It is an, with an ongoing need for judgment,… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of those who blame workers for Wall Street's economic crisis is to unravel the fabric of our common life… — Richard Trumka Copy Share Image
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit. — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and… — Bob Brown Copy Share Image
“Ours is but a small matter in the great deeds of this time. A vain pursuit from its beginning, maybe, which no… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
You see somewhere along the way, we've allowed the pursuit of fame and things to blind us to the issues that prevent… — T.I Copy Share Image
I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to… — Malcolm Mclaren Copy Share Image
The surest way of achieving your goal is through the single-minded pursuit of simple actions. — Helmuth von Moltke the Elder Copy Share Image
Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
