Pursued Quotes
297 Pursued quotes by 253 unique authors
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How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the…
— Iris Murdoch
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The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped, but I…
— Tennessee Williams
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The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night…
— Charles Dickens
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And when you were a silent word upon Life's quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us and we came…
— Khalil Gibran
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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
— Viktor E. Frankl
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He was a mystery to her, and every time she tried to solve him it caused her a little more pain. But when she tired…
— Anna Godbersen
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Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been…
— Thurgood Marshall
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Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in…
— Alex Garland
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A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture of utter despair.…
— Stephen King
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America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal…
— Ayn Rand
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A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves,…
— Irvin D. Yalom
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To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged,…
— Ian Fleming
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I've pursued dreams and achieved them, but I don't think anybody should think their life is incomplete if they don't follow some dream. Happiness doesn't…
— Janette Rallison
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Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness.
— Albert Einstein
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I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary self,…
— William Shakespeare
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The years... when I pursued the inner images were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It…
— Carl Jung
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Poisoned, pursued and living with a psychopath. Not what I would consider the good life. Death has its perks.
— Maria V. Snyder
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Most dreams die a slow death. They're conceived in a moment of passion, with the prospect of endless possibility, but often languish and are not…
— Dean Karnazes
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Another one from the immortals and again i cant remember what book. Haven to Ever In every relationship there is always someone who loves more,…
— Alyson Noel
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Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite, and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude…
— Jack London
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I'm not short," Daisy muttered. "Short women are never mysterious, or elegant, or pursued by handsome men. And they're always treated like children. I refuse…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Please, God,' Ruth would pray, 'don't let me be competitive. Let me realize what a privilege it is to study. Let me remember that knowledge…
— Eva Ibbotson
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She sat down at the table and spent a good hour talking about her husband. She told Judith how they'd met, how he relentlessly pursued…
— Julie Garwood
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