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The greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the pursuits of peace.
— George W. Bush
When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.
— David Hume
In proportion as I discover the worthlessness of other pursuits, the value of my Eliza and of domestic happiness rises in my estimation.
— Alexander Hamilton
He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I promise you that if you spend your life focusing on only the worthiest pursuits, it is certain to end in complete joy.
— Robin S. Sharma
The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.
— Howard Zinn
I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits.
— Mark Gatiss
Servants don't fill up their time with other pursuits that could limit their availability.
— Rick Warren
How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint.
— Henry David Thoreau
To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.
— Friedrich August Von Hayek
Our pursuits are for perfection but possibilities are endless.
— Debasish Mridha
Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.
— Oliver DeMille
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
— Samuel Richardson
History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.
— Henry Adams
Being sensitive and kind are admirable pursuits ... and so are knowing when you're being taking advantage of and simply walking away.
— Charles F. Glassman
wealth is able to buy the pleasures of eating, drinking and other sensual pursuits-yet can never afford a cheerful spirit or freedom from sorrow.
— Musonius Rufus
Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.
— Brigham Young
People who are "in love" lose interest in other pursuits. That is why we call it "obsession.
— Gary Chapman
All great men face challenges in the pursuit of their goals. However, the challenges did not deter them for pushing forward and realizing their goals.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Everyone thought Sydney had passion only for intellectual pursuits. That was their loss.
— Richelle Mead
I cannot say Who Art in Heaven-If all my interests and pursuits are in earthly things.
— Ken Blanchard
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
— Herbert Spencer
The world is changeable, and its ability to change is so fragile that a single person can be responsible for it.
— A.J. Darkholme
I have hobbies," he says, smirking. "Physical pursuits: Base-jumping, hang-gliding, underwater basket-weaving.
— Andrew Shaffer
The policy of the American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits.
— Thomas Jefferson
You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Someone once said writing and gardening are similar pursuits. Tell you what, I'd have one fucked up garden if that were the case.
— Carla H. Krueger
Yet she'd let herself get distracted by vanity and worry - two of the most worthless pursuits known to womankind.
— Karen Witemeyer
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In her glamorous quest for the darkest light and the lowest high, she now found herself wallowing on the bottom of a filthy garbage bin.
— Terri Blackstock
I'm undeniably very nerdy, but I'm trying to recognize and pursue more masculine pursuits.
— Thomas Middleditch
This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.
— Isaac Of Nineveh
If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Make a strong and permanent commitment to invest your talents only in pursuits that deserve your best efforts.
— Nido R. Qubein
As we grow older and mature in each incarnation, we are drawn back to samskaras, to previous interests and pursuits.
— Frederick Lenz
There are only two noble pursuits in life: knowledge and love.
— Carlos Salinas
Time you spend on meaningless pursuits is time you take away from meaningful ones.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us.
— George H. White
The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.
— Martin Van Buren
Death by Trivial Pursuits
— Dean Cavanagh
Do not waste this life in vain pursuits.
— Isaac Of Nineveh
The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.
— Charles C. Ryrie
I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.
— Henry David Thoreau
Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.
— David Horowitz
He was by profession a humanist, and that his pursuits and studies were making books for the press,
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Men of different tastes have different pursuits.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Dill, whenever they paused in their pursuits:
— Harper Lee
If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The culture of caring and giving permeates many Indian families. In their own way, they are engaged in philanthropic pursuits.
— Kumar Mangalam Birla
Zombies can't believe the energy we waste on nonfood pursuits.
— Patton Oswalt
Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.
— Thomas Aquinas
We are so busy with a million pursuits that we don't even notice the most important things slipping away.
— Kevin DeYoung
The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God.
— Frederick Lenz
In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves.
— Charles Tomlinson
All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Also, painting and animation are really solitary pursuits, so the collaborative aspects of music making and acting are pretty welcome sometimes.
— Tunde Adebimpe
Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.
— Richard Dawkins
Most of Ludwig's excesses involved pursuits popular among Bavarians, who shared his love for hiking, drinking, and over the top decorating
— Susan Barnett Braun
We hurt ourselves when we give our time, the minutes of our life span, to pursuits that don't match our own values.
— Anne Katherine
Pursuits become habits.
— Ovid
In today's world, other people have become an obstacle to our individual pursuits.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
The old age comes very quickly; let us welcome it and find new joys and new pursuits not known in the youth!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Do not get attached to worldly things and pursuits. Be in the world, but do not let the world be in you.
— Sathya Sai Baba
To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
— Marcus Aurelius
To be poor in spirit is an attitude of humility that is willing to turn from personal pursuits to seek God's righteousness
— Sunday Adelaja
Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.
— Gore Vidal
