Pursued Quotes
297 Pursued quotes by 253 unique authors
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be…
— Adam Clarke
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Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.
— George Wald
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I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or…
— J. William Fulbright
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The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting, and destructive.
— Jonathan Raban
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Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I am convinced that the public, large majority of the Greek people, realize that policies pursued in the past and the market practices have to…
— Lucas Papademos
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When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.
— Marguerite Young
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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.
— Thomas Jefferson
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I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the…
— Naguib Mahfouz
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The authentic is almost never found by being pursued; but there is no missing it when you are in its presence.
— Eva Hoffman
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Together they [President Nixon and Secretary Kissinger] pursued ends that frequently had a tenuous link with reality, using means that were not merely disproportionate but…
— William Shawcross
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There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. We have no…
— Sir John Richard Hicks
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting:…
— Danica McKellar
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I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to transition in, so…
— Jeb Bush
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I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and…
— Juan Cole
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Two presidents pursued human rights policies that were serious and effective: Reagan and George W. Bush. They understood that American support for human rights activists…
— Elliott Abrams
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I pursued a theatre career, and Hollywood came calling.
— Len Cariou
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In 1998 Harry Reid and I had a very close race. It was less than a tenth of a percentage point. We had a reasonable…
— John Ensign
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor.…
— Patrick J. Adams
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What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the “life of the mind”: thinking pursued not instrumentally, for…
— Gary Gutting
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Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in…
— Vladimir Putin
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The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being…
— William Jackson
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My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts…
— Claude Nicollier
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