Pursued Quotes
297 Pursued quotes by 253 unique authors
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That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl…
— Brian De Palma
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Pursued by our origins…we all are.
— Emile M. Cioran
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The person who fears God seeks to live all of life to the glory of God... All the activities of life should be pursued with…
— Jerry Bridges
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Ultimately, any type of discipline is flawed because it keeps the person who is being disciplined inept. As long as the experience is happening to…
— Unknown Author
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
— Francesca Annis
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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
— Plato
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The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence,…
— Plato
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Germany is the enemy of Judaism and must be pursued with deadly hatred. The goal of Judaism of today is: a merciless campaign against all…
— Unknown Author
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The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Just to prove that even the silliest idea can be pursued to its illogical conclusion, Legal Realism spawned Critical Legal Studies.
— Alex Kozinski
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Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program.
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Working toward perfection is not a one time decision but a process to be pursued throughout one's lifetime.
— Spencer W. Kimball
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The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating…
— William Banting
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No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study…
— Murasaki Shikibu
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Wealth is, for most people, the only honest and likely path to liberty. With money comes power over the world. Men are freed from drudgery,…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken.
— H.G. Wells
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The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide.
— Samuel Eliot Morison
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The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which…
— Che Guevara
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It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with…
— H. L. Mencken
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I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunities that I never really pursued…
— Todd English
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Windy or not, a day this beautiful has to be lived. The day is bright and clear, the sky blue, and the dry air feels…
— Carl Safina
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If you pursued something that you felt strongly about, then I call that success.
— Adora Svitak
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The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative. He…
— Robert Briffault
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Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor…
— Paulo Freire
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All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if I’d said, ‘I…
— Diana Vreeland
Who Wrote These Pursued Quotes
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