Cult: simply an extension of the idea that everyone's supreme aim in life is self- fulfillment and happiness and that one is… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It now lately sometimes seemed a black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject or pursuit, and… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The pursuit of learning is not a piece of content that can be taught. It is a value that teachers model. Only… — Martin Haberman Copy Share Image
Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' roll is just entertainment, and the kids who like to identify their youthful high spirits with a solid beat are… — Bill Haley Copy Share Image
I'd always disparaged the games people played in pursuit of love--or the next hook up. The whole thing was a competition to… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
I could not limit my values and pursuits to what makes others comfortable. Being possessed by a promise I live without options.… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
“In his pursuit of the dream, he was being constantly subjected to tests of his persistence and courage. So he could not… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been… — John Knox Copy Share Image
I want to stress again that human rights are not peripheral to the foreign policy of the United States. Our pursuit of… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
How we use our leisure is equally as important to our joy as our occupational pursuits. Proper use of leisure requires discriminating… — J. Richard Clarke Copy Share Image
Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The leisure time of children must be constructively directed to wholesome, positive pursuits. Too much time viewing television can be destructive...It is… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Power relations between men and women must change profoundly, men must be partners in the pursuit of gender equality, in their decision-making… — Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka Copy Share Image
Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt,… — Charlotte Cotton Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein has been tenacious in his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and, unless he is removed from power, he will… — Richard Shelby 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
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
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
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
