Pursued Quotes
297 Pursued quotes by 253 unique authors
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State propaganda, when supported by the educated classes and when no deviation is permitted from it, can have a big effect. It was a lesson…
— Noam Chomsky
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Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling,…
— Victor Hugo
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XXVIII "Truth," said a traveller, "Is a rock, a mighty fortress; "Often have I been to it, "Even to its highest tower, "From whence the…
— Stephen Crane
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Its time we woke up,” pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress…
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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I read The Hunger Games voraciously and was extremely annoyed when interrupted by such inconsequential things as 'Christmas dinner.' (God, Mom, did you not understand…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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Velius--so who is she? no wait, let me guess. skin of the finest porcelain. hair of the softest silk. a voice like birdsong, a smile…
— Alethea Kontis
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I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest.…
— Bob Ross
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Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless…
— Anne Bronte
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Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.
— Bob Ross
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We will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued greater retirement, or…
— David Platt
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Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It…
— Billy Graham
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Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. Fortunately, there have always been pastors who have…
— Karl Barth
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Maybe Dauntless was formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals. But it has strayed far from them. And the same…
— Veronica Roth
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In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
— Carl Sagan
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Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has…
— James Madison
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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a…
— Charles Darwin
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Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.
— George M. Whitesides
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I never pursued acting with, like, auditions. If anything, I was given roles by people who knew me and liked what I did.
— Unknown Author
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Before I pursued acting full-time, I had every intention of going into some form of law enforcement work.
— Michael Trucco
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I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back…
— Nancy Allen
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My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have been a great…
— Isabel Allende
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Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic training nor the…
— Anne Fortier
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