The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
The time has come for everybody -capitalists, communists, socialists- to ask themselves what 'civilization' really means. If not, whether a country calls… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
True purity, however, is a direction, a persistent, determined pursuit of righteousness. This direction starts in the heart, and we express it… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons, support for international terrorist organizations, and abhorrent human rights practices pose one of the greatest threats… — Allyson Schwartz Copy Share Image
People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc.,… — Lord Melbourne Copy Share Image
You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of… — Donald Sutherland Copy Share Image
That isn’t about money, fame, or power. It’s about will, dedication, commitment, and knowing your self-worth. You can be poor as dirt… — Jennifer Hudson 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
Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury; the time spent engaged in it is not time… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other… — Karl Liebknecht Copy Share Image
This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Much of everyday life is filled with opportunities to be distracted. Our possessions... entertainment... cares and anxieties... and even the passionate desire… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night,… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
“Replace the word can’t with can. Know that you can, believe that you can, and know with ALL of your heart that… — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share Image
There's a lot of me in it. But the character is more egotistical. I'm also egotistical, but not the way the character… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The pursuit system is an ideal way to shoot action sequences. It enhances the picturisation and captures the scene so well that… — Vijay Krishna Acharya Copy Share Image
A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The measure of woman's distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I used to be so convinced that happiness was the goal, yet all those years I was chasing after it I was… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
Whether you're shuffling a deck of cards or holding your breath, magic is pretty simple: It comes down to training, practice, and… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose-not merely the power to… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
History ... with its long, leisurely, gentlemanly labors, the books arriving by post, the cards to be kept and filed, the sections… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
The mass of our citizens may be divided into two classes -- the laboring and the learned. The laboring will need the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
What is defeat in life? It is not merely making a mistake; defeat means giving up on yourself in the midst of… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
America was founded on the principle of inalienable rights, not dictated duties. The Declaration of Independence states that every human being has… — Alex Epstein Copy Share Image
I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its… — George Washington Copy Share Image
There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth." Vashet smiled lazily. "And if the pursuit of… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The sad fact is that if you love education, revere the life of the mind, care about the pursuit of truth, think… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. When I say 'capitalism,'… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Life though, is full of compensations and I have been well blessed throughout my 'Life Journey' with good friends met and made… — John McLeod Copy Share Image
Renaissance man, woman, either way it's a worthy pursuit! Like the painters of Emilia's day, I was raised in an environment that… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
The wise man knoweth where to stop, as he runneth in the race of fortune, For experience of old hath taught him,… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
