Pursuits Quotes

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To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. — Marcus Aurelius
The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their… — Martin Van Buren
Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called… — Graydon Carter
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. — Thomas Aquinas
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits. — William James
If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's… — Henry David Thoreau
Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have… — Thomas Jefferson
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. — William James
What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.] — Carl Jung
I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with… — Padma Lakshmi
One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among… — Nathanael Emmons
All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day… — Thomas Huxley
Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction cannot give up the thought… — Zhuangzi
When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would… — Alexander Hamilton
Khalif (Caliph) Al-Ma'mun's period of rule (813 - 833 C.E.) may be considered the 'golden age' of science and learning. He had always been devoted… — John Bagot Glubb
The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away the early morning,… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver. He never authorized… — Paula White
Our Lord might be described as the great Physician, Healer, Engineer, Chief Scout, Foreman, Builder, or the like - all showing his pre-eminence in the… — Bruce R. McConkie
... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad… — Aristotle
Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond… — Thomas Jefferson

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