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As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.
— Andrew Delbanco
A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.
— Jean Helion
[My husband] can beat most anyone in Trivial Pursuit, but only because the game does not include questions like "Where is your wallet?
— Amy Sutherland
Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.
— Ryan Reynolds
Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.
— Raymond Sokolov
Think of strength, dream of strength, live of strength.
— Abhijit Naskar
To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.
— Friedrich August Von Hayek
You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.
— James Frey
God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
— Federico Fellini
You must want it, to chase for it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Success is a steadily progress.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is nothing that sharpens a man's senses so acutely as to know that bitter and determined enemies are in pursuit of him night and day.
— Frederick Russell Burnham
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
— C.P. Snow
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen. Few in pursuit of the goal.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Whatever you desire pursue it.
There is divine forces that attract the things to you. — Lailah Gifty Akita
There is divine forces that attract the things to you. — Lailah Gifty Akita
Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Governors were once minors. Presidents were once residents.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The pursuit of love is passionate life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
— George Bernard Shaw
Nothing in this book is an attempt to prevent the really resolute misery addicts from continuing their pursuit of frustration and failure.
— Robert Anton Wilson
The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do.
— Fernando Perez
Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.
— Patti Smith
People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit.
— James Madison
It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.
— Mardy Grothe
We are so keen in our #pursuitofhappiness that we forget to be #happy!!
— Twinkle Varshney
The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.
— Agnes Meyer Driscoll
Fashion is the pursuit of perfection, Style is the acceptance of one's flaws.
— Francesco Clemente
Adventure is the pursuit of life.
— Daniel Roy
The pursuit of the impossible through the useless.
— Gabriel De Tarde
The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.
— Bertrand Russell
The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave.
— Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
Christianity is not a do-it-yourself thing.
— Jerry Bridges
I believe everyone on this planet deserves equal rights to their own pursuit of happiness.
— Joel Madden
In the pursuit of breaking free from all the shackles of man-made bondages, science is the most effective tool we have till this date.
— Abhijit Naskar
Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.
— Francois Fenelon
Rescuing dogs is looked upon as a noble, trendy pursuit. But wouldn't rescuing a man from a homeless shelter be, in fact, more humane?
— Greg Fitzsimmons
Self-denial in the pursuit of purpose generates true pleasure while self-indulgence in the pursuit of pleasure generates true misery.
— Orrin Woodward
You know that the pursuit of worldly things does not bring contentment. Find satisfaction in becoming a worker among the Lord's workers
— Binye Vincent
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
— John Buchan
Weigh risk carefully, and once you decide a risk is manageable and necessary in the pursuit of your dreams, take it.
— Adrian Ballinger
A strong pursuit, give no time for the enemy to think, take advantage of victory, uproot him, cut off his escape route.
— Alexander Suvorov
It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.
— Richard Steele
Our wishes are endless.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Real love demands pursuit.
— Timothy S. Lane & Paul David Tripp
I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis,
— Rana Dasgupta
Learning dance steps was the sorry Saturday night pursuit of every boardinghouse girl in America
— Amor Towles
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 pursuit.
— Robert Breault
I am deeply disturbed by the senseless violence instigated by some leaders in pursuit of their personal political agenda.
— Mwai Kibaki
If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
Happiness, as a pursuit, is suitable only for pigs.
— Albert Einstein
Our greatest national illusion is that a healthy society can be organized around the single-minded pursuit of wealth.
— Jeffrey D. Sachs
A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
— B.H. Liddell Hart
He had an uncommon thirst for knowledge, in the pursuit of which he spared no cost nor pains.
— Jonathan Edwards
Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.
— Harriet Martineau
There is only One Man Playing your Game, You!
— Vineet Raj Kapoor
Your calling connects with your passion.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is the pursuit of eternally broadening context.
— Scott Woods
It could be said of him that while others chased the mirage of happiness, he was happy with being content.
— Neel Mukherjee
Much of what has gone wrong in the pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace is due to a lack of strong leadership, primarily among the Palestinians.
— Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy,
— Viktor E. Frankl
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
— Harriet Martineau
What is it that's taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my powers?
— Claude Monet
We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.
— Samuel Richardson
What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The pursuit of knowledge, brother, is the askin' of many questions.
— Raymond Chandler
Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There's always room at the top in every pursuit.
— Andrew Carnegie
A winner is someone who can look in the mirror at the end of the day and say in pursuit of my goal and dreams I gave my best.
— Dick Vitale
Knowledge shall set the mind free.
— Abhijit Naskar