Best Pursuit Thoughts
1137 Pursuit quotes by 852 unique authors
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Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless…
— Robert Breault
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What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of…
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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Instead of responding to these attacks with a vigorous intellectual counterpunch, many believers grew suspicious of intellectual issues altogether. To be sure, Christians must rely…
— J.P. Moreland
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The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can
— Loretta Swit
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When you’re young, you don’t know that you’re poor, you just know whether or not you’re happy. And i was happy, and loved. My mom…
— Jared Leto
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The reason I stopped modeling was because I was not pleased with trying to portray something that is impossible to reach. Even when I do…
— Diane Kruger
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How can anyone expect to be understood unless he presents his thoughts with complete honesty? This situation is unfair because it asks too much of…
— Duke Ellington
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I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
— Gabrielle Anwar
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Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If youre a sportsman or youre a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you…
— Joan Sutherland
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It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really…
— David Krumholtz
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I'm a man. Men cook outside. That outdoor grilling is a manly pursuit has long been beyond question. If this wasn't understood, you'd never get…
— Bill Geist
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Still, I wonder if more women artists, musicians and writers aren't household names because we don't have enough faith in our own pursuits to give…
— Holly Robinson Peete
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We must be careful, as we seek to become more and more [Christlike], that we do not become discouraged and lose hope. Becoming Christlike is…
— D. Todd Christofferson
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In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.
— Pete Townshend
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I'm on the pursuit of happiness and I know, everything that shines ain't always gonna be gold. But I'll be fine once I get it,…
— Kid Cudi
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Third, there is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called 'sportsmanship'. Our tools for the pursuit of wildlife improve faster than…
— Aldo Leopold
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America stands for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness and for the unalienable right for life. This right to life cannot be granted or denied…
— George W. Bush
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Our cities with their swollen populations and cliff dwelling high-rise buildings are breeding places for loneliness. Neighborhoods crumble under the housing development bulldozers and families…
— Allan Fromme
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Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
— Harriet Martineau
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming…
— Chang-Rae Lee
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There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by the…
— George F. Kennan
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Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many…
— Edward Abbey
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I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who…
— Edward Abbey
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It is odd to watch with what feverish ardour Americans pursue prosperity, ever tormented by the shadowy suspicion that they might not have chosen the…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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