Quotes of Pursuit - somelinesforyou

“ If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time. ”

- Josh Billings

“ Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully. ”

- Scott Alexander

“ Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. ”

- Andre Gide

“ The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing, Read you not the wrong you're doing In my cheek's pale hue? All my life with sorrow strewing; Wed or cease to woo. ”

- Thomas Campbell

“ Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest. ”

- Laurence Sterne

“ The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to Run forward! Bend! Scoop up the ball! Peg it to first! Then your body says who me? ”

- Joe DiMaggio

“ Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ To revisit the spitfire worldof the duel, you put on a suitof white body armour, a helmetlike an insect's composite eyeand step out like a space walkerunder haloed lights, trailing a cord. ”

- Les Murray

“ I don't have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I've done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that's mostly what I'm offered. ”

- Billy Connolly

“ I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along. ”

- Harvey Cox

“ There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking. ”

- David Coleman

“ The highest function of the teacher consists not so much in imparting knowledge as in stimulating the pupil in its love and pursuit. ”

- Henri Frederic Amiel

“ It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. ”

- Denis Waitley

“ It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness. ”

- Viktor Frankel

“ Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit. ”

- Marcel Proust

“ Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. ”

- Northrop Frye

“ The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. ”

- Matthew

“ What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. ”

- Igor Stravinsky

“ The pursuit of truth shall set you free - even if you never catch up with it. ”

- Clarence Darrow

“ Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government… ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes. ”

- Denis de Rougemont
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