Pursued Quotes

297 quotes by 258 authors

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
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force. — Charles Baudelaire
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
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense. — George Berkeley
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
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
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
[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
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
I have pursued her, as love hath pursued me — William Shakespeare
....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
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
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
No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical. — Janet Morris
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
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
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
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
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
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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