As the lead rider in the team you always have to keep your eyes on the team you're pursuing - it's called… — Chris Hoy Copy Share Image
Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of… — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
“And to fight this beast of wrong is what I intend to do. To do otherwise is to sidestp this rabid injustice.” — John-Talmage Mathis Copy Share Image
“How tragic it is to find that an entire lifetime is wasted in pursuit of distractions while purpose is neglected.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
I believe that anyone who is serious and committed to pay the price of learning, discipline and taking the right actions in… — John Assaraf Copy Share Image
To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
That word again. Happy. It’s a curse. The pursuit of happiness makes us deeply unhappy. It’s a trap.Before anything else happened, there… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
We are men and women from many lands, representing a rich variety of cultures. And we have been brought together to work… — Kurt Waldheim Copy Share Image
If art is to flourish in the twenty-first century, it must renew its moral authority by rededicating itself to life. It must… — Frederick Hart Copy Share Image
When you are passionate, you always have your destination in sight and you are not distracted by obstacles. Because you love what… — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
“[In high school] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested… — Allan McLeod Cormack Copy Share Image
A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“We cannot win in team situations or in relationships by ourselves. It is like trying to pick up a pencil with only… — Terry Orlick Copy Share Image
Love of country cannot be a supersized version of individual narcissism. True love of country-of this country-is love of our children, of… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in… — Milarepa 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 things would… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
the right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right ... Even political rights, like the right to vote, and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, many people do not feel comfortable with freedom. They must find for themselves a leader, a guru, or a mentor to… — Joseph Girzone Copy Share Image
There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
In the networks' endless pursuit of controversy, we should ask what is the end value ... to enlighten or to profit? What… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
Liberalism should be found not striving to spread bureaucracy but striving to set bounds to it. True liberalism seeks all legitimate freedom… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
The moment before I jump is filled with anxiety and what-ifs. But then as soon as I enter the air, I'm filled… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism is identical… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
Our unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, those rights were stripped from college kids in Blackburg and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Every Latter-day Saint should make the study of this book a lifetime pursuit. Otherwise, he is placing his soul in jeopardy and… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Love, affection, even attention are not things that need pursuit. If they are not given freely, openly, willingly to you by another… — Charles F. Glassman Copy Share Image