Pursued Quotes
297 quotes by 258 authors
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I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really.
— Amy Adams
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If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
— Charles Baudelaire
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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of…
— Jeremy Bentham
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The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
— George Berkeley
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It's pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. And it's also pretty clear the American people are still demanding and…
— John Boehner
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I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways,…
— Brandon Boyd
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We need to make sure that leaks of classified information, of national security secrets, needs to be rigorously pursued and prosecuted to the fullest extent…
— John O. Brennan
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[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for…
— Jim Rohn
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I have pursued her, as love hath pursued me
— William Shakespeare
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....Man's struggle to be rational about himself, about his relationship to his own society and to other peoples and nations involves a constant search for…
— J. William Fulbright
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And all of these together, as much as any campaign the Marine Corps has ever pursued, have brought an unrelenting, never-ceasing pride to all of…
— Jim Webb
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My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it. Forty years ago, when I…
— Claude Monet
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No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical.
— Janet Morris
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My present and most fixed opinion regarding the nature of alcoholic fermentation is this: The chemical act of fermentation is essentially a phenomenon correlative with…
— Louis Pasteur
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Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I don't want an epitaph on my gravestone that says, 'He would have pursued some big dreams in his life, but other people wouldn't let…
— Tom Peters
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America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal…
— Ayn Rand
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Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were abandoning the study…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a knowledge of the…
— Noah Webster
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