“Science is an organized pursuit of triviality. Art is a casual pursuit of significance. Let's keep it in perspective.” — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
A winner is someone who can look in the mirror at the end of the day and say in pursuit of my… — Dick Vitale Copy Share Image
Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness. — George Will Copy Share Image
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The pursuit of truth in science transcends national boundaries. It takes us beyond hatred and anger and fear. It is the best… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Kant considers belief in God and immortality to be items of "faith" because he relates faith to the pursuit of ends -… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift… — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power...it is the best friend of… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Sisterhood is powerful. Woman can support each other as women, in their pursuit for enlightenment or anything else, without fear. But as… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I won't have the sacks of a Mark Gastineau and I won't get all those pursuit tackles. Our responsibilities are different. He's… — Howie Long Copy Share Image
Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, 'Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,' served as my muse for 'The Painted Girls.' I came upon a television documentary… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
“This pursuit requires sustained, vigorous effort. It allows for no indolence, no lethargy, no halfhearted commitment, and no laissez- faire attitude toward… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means that each of us is free to go our own way,… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
...There is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end to the making and selling of things… — George Saunders 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
The day has gone by when a monk can tear a Hypatia from the pursuit of philosophy and throw her to a… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick Copy Share Image
When anaesthetics were invented they were thought to be wicked as being an attempt to thwart God's will. Insanity was thought to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
“The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions. Can we be equitable? Can we… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Nothing but Christianity will give you the victory. Until a man believes in his heart that Jesus Christ is his Lord and… — Francis Scott Key Copy Share Image
I've reported in countries where leaders not only complain about a critical press, but also try to shut it down, throwing reporters… — Jonathan Karl Copy Share Image
It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals. — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness. — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
We've got to understand that all disenfranchised people have something in common...The pursuit of justice really is about equality for everyone. — Anita Hill Copy Share Image
In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit,… — Sallust Copy Share Image
The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this… — John Redwood Copy Share Image
...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work. — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Chasing after a guy who's not interested in you will rip the hell out of your self-respect. Better to face facts now… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books! — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional,… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
The challenge of life is regretless decision making, relentless pursuit of vision with faith, forgiving others, enduring pain with a smile &… — Sujit Lalwani Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united. — Jack London Copy Share Image
Veterans and serving personnel alike have been hounded by processes often not motivated by the pursuit of justice. — Penny Mordaunt Copy Share Image
