Pursued Quotes

297 Pursued quotes by 253 unique authors

Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm… — Caleb Cushing
In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. ...under the republican forms [of government], for… — James Madison
Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Your greatest regret at the end of your life will be the lions you didn't chase. You will look back longingly on risks not taken,… — Mark Batterson
We cannot move casually into a better future. We cannot casually pursue the goal we have set for ourselves. A goal that is casually pursued… — Jim Rohn
Nothing, absolutely nothing, has a more direct bearing on the moral choices made by individuals or the purposes pursued by society than belief or disbelief… — Ravi Zacharias
Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical… — Emile M. Cioran
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for… — B.K.S. Iyengar
After examining some of the recent cases which the Postal Service has pursued, vigorous prosecution of, for example, a health food advocate. — Vin Weber
It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people,… — James Madison
My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because… — Randy Travis
Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if only we had… — Upton Sinclair
I was not that pretty a girl and I was never pursued as a teenager or young woman, so I was used to having no… — Martha Wainwright
Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect. Supineness… — William O. Douglas
It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end. — Thomas Jefferson
All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued. — Nadine Gordimer
That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer… — Haile Selassie
Every endeavour pursued with passion produces a successful outcome, regardless of the result. For it is not about winning or losing – rather, the effort… — Matthew Syed
The elimination of horrible disease, the increase of the quality of lives (for humans and for animals) achieved through research using animals is so incalculably… — Carl Cohen
My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in pre-Baconian fashion, without… — Philip Warren Anderson
The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of its… — John Dewey
In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that… — Lincoln Steffens
Everyone will be forgotten, nothing we do will make any difference, and all good endeavours, even the best, will come to naught. Unless there is… — Timothy Keller
Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
What's new?" is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion,… — Robert M. Pirsig

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