In Pursuit Quotes

I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things.

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Joy is realized as the natural by-product of the passionate pursuit of something other than happiness.

Love is the pursuit of shadows.

Saints didn't set out to have everyone follow them. Saints set out to follow Jesus, and others followed them in their pursuit of Him.

The shaming of Washington, insofar as it is even possible, is a very noble pursuit.

It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.

[On the United States:] We are a wildly energetic people in our pursuit of pleasure, let alone in our pursuit of money, and we are very odd to look at as we go about our lives.

Difficulties can be a valuable tool in our pursuit of perfection. Adversity need have no necessary connection with failure.

In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.

An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even by initial failures, is not betrayed.

Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.

Philadelphia, the foundation of freedom, liberty and democracy, I still believe in the idea of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The pursuit of strength is inherently difficult and entirely worthwhile.

Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos.

Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

I've turned it into the constant pursuit of natural and healthy living, which is much more than just exercise and how you eat. It's a way of life.

Photographers undervalue the use of a wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography.

Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.

Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by their interests and corrupted by their prejudices.

...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.

A terrorist is one who kills innocents for the pursuit of a political aim.

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

The ultimate goal of those who blame workers for Wall Street's economic crisis is to unravel the fabric of our common life in pursuit of greed and power.

I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it's not comedy anymore.

Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is something few want to receive.

I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise.

Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.

Although the universe is under no obligation to make sense, students in pursuit of a Ph. D. are.

Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.

Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.

I would say one of the reasons that women don't invest to the same extent that men do, is because we still think of it in some ways as a male pursuit.

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

Architects are by nature and pursuit, leaders and teachers.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.

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.

The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost.

As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.

the compulsion to work long years in pursuit of some inner vision must be fueled by stubborn fires.

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.

I wasn't in the drama department, but I auditioned anyway and he not only cast me but also included a few sketches that I wrote, which really sparked my pursuit of comedy.

There's always risk in life's most rewarding pursuits, isn't there?

I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.

The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration's economic recovery strategy for the nation.

In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as much in need of God's grace as the sailors and the Ninevites.

If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuer that does not readily let go.

Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.

The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.

A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.