I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden. — Hayley Mills Copy Share Image
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion. — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
“The promise of a hopeful future is motivation for the pursuit of my dreams.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Brilliant, inspiring . . . if you are on a pursuit of self-mastery, make time to read this! — Jennifer Lacy Copy Share Image
They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides. — Theocritus Copy Share Image
America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained. — Agnes Meyer Driscoll Copy Share Image
It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us… — Daniel Wallace Copy Share Image
I will remain in relentless pursuit of continuing my lifelong dream of being an NFL quarterback. — Tim Tebow Copy Share Image
By looking into physical causes our minds are opened and enlarged; and in this pursuit, whether we take or whether we lose… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
[Burke] emphasized that the new forms of politics, which hope to organize society around the rational pursuit of liberty, equality, fraternity, or… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know… — Plato Copy Share Image
What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and,… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans… — Lucille Roybal-Allard Copy Share Image
The aspirations of most people--security, pleasure, leisure, meaningful work, creative and intellectual pursuits--are to be supported. These desires and dreams are not… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit. — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
“Some things must be pursued, or they may in fact pursue us.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Business is a spiritual pursuit. Your business will not grow unless you grow as a person — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
When the act of pursuit is complete, pleasure shows it's untamed power. — Denise Clark Copy Share Image
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