Chasing Quotes - Page 10

• Chasing dragons with plastic swords, Jack Off Jimmy everybody wants more.

  Sheryl Crow

  Dragons, Want, Plastic

  Song: A Change Would Do You Good, Album: Sheryl Crow, 1996

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• You lose money chasing women, never lose women chasing money...

  Nas

  Rap, Hip Hop, Loses

  "Ghetto Rich". Song by Nas, Rich Boy and Lil Wayne, March 13, 2007.

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• It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that-it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown-then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Funny, Dream

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• I don't ... like rhythm, assonance, all that stuff. You just go on your nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street with a knife you just run, you don't turn around and shout, 'Give it up! I was a track star for Mineola Prep.'

  Frank O'Hara

  Running, Stars, Knives

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• The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to himself. Perhaps you are chasing rainbows. You're after the self-confidence of the average man, when you should be after the humbleness of a warrior. The difference between the two is remarkable. Self Confidence entails knowing something for sure; humbleness entails being impeccable in one's actions and feelings.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Self Confidence, Warrior, Men

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Never get so stuck in being responsible and mindful that you can't let it all go and run off chasing your private dream, if it leads to the shiny worlds, the worlds of beauty.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Running, Dream

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• Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was popular because they're chasing their tails.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Sound, Tails, Gears

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• People think that I popped out of my mother's womb singing 'Chasing Pavements'.

  Adele

  Mother, Thinking, People

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• What are you doing, looking at me with one eye and chasing a fly with the other?

  Bobby Heenan

  Eye

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• It's like one of those dreams you have when someone is chasing you. You're running as fast as you can, and someone's trotting behind you, just out of range, trying to grab onto you.

  Michael Chang

  Running, Dream, Trying

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• People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbows end...Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Happiness, Happy, Children

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• A cheerful demeanor makes brighter the day; as the sun, chasing darkness and sorrow away.

  Wes Fesler

  Darkness, Sorrow, Cheerful

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• I've been lucky. I've made films that I really like. It's been a combination of what comes to me and what I choose. I've gone after lots of things that I didn't get, pet projects that everybody ends up chasing after. Really, you're lucky if you get anything.

  Hope Davis

  Pet, Lucky, Gone

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Why are you chasing your tail so?" Said the kitten, "I have learned that the best thing for a cat is happiness, and that happiness is my tail. Therefore, I am chasing it: and when I catch it. I shall have happiness." Said the cat, "My son, I, too, have paid attention to the problems of the universe. I, too, have judged that happiness is in my tail. But, I have noticed that whenever I chase it, it keeps running away from me, and when I go about my business, it just seems to come after me wherever I go.

  C. L. R. James

  Running, Art, Cat

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• The next time you lose your momentum in daily life as you're chasing after God's best for you, don't give up and conclude that it's over. The greater life hasn't ended for you. It's only out of sight under the waters of the ordinary. And God can resurface it, supernaturally, as many times as it takes. As many times as you're willing.

  Steven Furtick

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Sight

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• Creativity is like chasing chickens.

  Christoph Niemann

  Creativity, Chickens

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• Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.

  Milan Kundera

  Butterfly, Wind, Ridiculous

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• Watch for a wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing women to booze or battle: may attempt all three concurrently.

  Nelson Algren

  Fighting, Boys, Battle

  Nelson Algren (2010). “A Walk On The Wild Side”, p.26, Canongate Books

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• Naturally, when a young fellow steps up into a big position, it breeds jealousy among those whom he's left behind and uneasiness among those to whom he's pulled himself up. Between them he's likely to be subjected to a lot of petty annoyances. But he's in the fix of a dog with fleas who's chasing a rabbit -- if he stops to snap at the tickling on his tail, he's going to lose his game dinner.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Dog, Games, Rabbits

  George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.32, Cosimo, Inc.

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• But the line of thought that I'd been chasing for several days was implicit in the ruins of the old Roman Empire, which gradually destroyed itself by substituting the faith in a legion of miraculous words for the strength of armies and the weight of walls.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Wall, Army, Ruins

  Lewis H. Lapham (1997). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, p.186, Verso

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• When your actions are motivated by love, you expend least effort and your energy multiplies, allowing you to create anything you want, with a spirit of play and joy. When you seek power and control over others, you waste energy chasing the illusion of happiness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love You, Play, Effort

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• Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start to write the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.

  Neil Gaiman

  Moving, Writing, Perfection

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• What I'm doing right now, I'm chasing perfection... and if I don't get it, I'm going to get this close.

  Kobe Bryant

  Perfection, Right Now, Ifs

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• I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the mechanical rabbit she'd been chasing for so long--discovering it was merely metal, wrapped in cloth. It wasn't alive; it had no spirit. It was fake.

  Anne Lamott

  Long, Fake, Rabbits

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.304, Penguin

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• Yet we slink about like whipped curs:;... our self-abasement principally takes the form of subservience to the United States:;... we are under no necessity to participate in the American nightmare of a Soviet monster barely held at bay in all quarters of the globe by an inconceivable nuclear armament and by political intervention everywhere from Poland to Cambodia. It is the Americans who need us in order to act out their crazy scenario... We simply do not need to go chasing up and down after the vagaries of the next ignoramus to become President of the United States.

  Enoch Powell

  Crazy, Self, Order

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