Chasing Quotes - Page 13

• What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Circles, Darkness, Tails

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “After The Quake”, p.56, Random House

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• In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.

  Chris Cleave

  Ears, Whispering, World

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• And if your friends make fun of you for chasing your dream, remember—just lie.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Dream, Fun, Lying

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• Are you in the car that's almost caused three accidents on North Vance?" Hannah asked. "Because I'm following you with my lights flashing, and whoever's driving isn't pulling over." "Let him go," Claire said. "Trust me. You aren't going to get him to stop." "Oh, God. It's Myrnin, isn't it?" "Tell that police lady to stop chasing me," Myrnin said, annoyed, from the front seat. "Really, I'm not THAT bad at this.

  Rachel Caine

  Light, Car, Annoyed

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• Just his luck he was related to this grubby old dude. He hoped all sons of Neptune didn't share the same fate. First, you start carrying a man satchel. Next thing you know, you're running around in a bathrobe and pink bunny slippers, chasing chickens with a weed whacker.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Weed, Fate

  "The Son of Neptune". Book by Rick Riordan, October 4, 2011.

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• We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Life, Dream, Strange

  "The Night Circus". Book by Erin Morgenstern, September 13, 2011.

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• It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.

  Philip Reeve

  Spring, Dark, Sea

  Philip Reeve (2012). “Predator Cities x 4 and The Traction Codex”, p.13, Scholastic UK

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• Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.

  Ann Brashares

  Soccer, Stars, School

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.188, Delacorte Press

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• The Carpetbaggers was the first big money I made. Money gave me a lot of freedom, but no matter how much you make there's always somebody chasing your ass for more.

  Harold Robbins

  Matter, Firsts, Ass

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• In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen.

  Grover Cleveland

  Patriotic, Thoughtful, Lakes

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• Don't stop chasing your dreams, because dreams do come true.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Dream, Chase Your Dreams, Dreams Do Come True

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• Once we begin chasing approval, we never stop running. It's servitude to a thousand masters instead of one to please.

  David Jeremiah

  Running, Approval, Masters

  David Jeremiah (2013). “What Are You Afraid Of?: Facing Down Your Fears with Faith”, p.145, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• If I listened to my instincts, I'd be down at the pub chasing women, not under a 400 pound bar squatting

  Dorian Yates

  Bars, Pounds, Instinct

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• You're trying to figure out a way to meet a horse to where he can understand. And to me, it's not to train a horse, it's to try to get the horse with you where it's one mind and one body. You may spend your whole life chasing that, but it's a good thing to chase.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Mind, Trying

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• It was so dry in Saskatchewan during the Depression that the trees were chasing the dogs.

  John Robert Colombo

  Dog, Tree, Dry

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• The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose its position. It is this dizzying cycle that keeps humanity chasing the tail it lost millennia ago

  Miguel Syjuco

  Tyrants, Humanity, Tails

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

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• Whatever you chase will run away from you. So, stop chasing success and realize you already have it all.

  Russell Simmons

  Running, Realizing, Away From You

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• I used to be so convinced that happiness was the goal, yet all those years I was chasing after it I was unhappy in the pursuit. Maybe the goal really should be a life that values honor, duty, good work, friends and family.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Years, Goal, Honor

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• The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Horse, Hands, Breathing

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.12, Rodale

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• When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once.

  Milarepa

  Running, Dog, Lions

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• When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick

  Milarepa

  Running, Dog, Sticks

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• The quickest way for anyone to reach the sun and the light of day is not to run west, chasing after the setting sun, but to head east, plunging into the darkness until one comes to the sunrise.

  Gerald Lawson Sittser

  Running, Light, Darkness

  Gerald Lawson Sittser, Jerry L. Sittser (1998). “A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss”, p.33, Zondervan

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• Kids are always chasing rainbows, but baseball is a world where you can catch them.

  Johnny Vander Meer

  Baseball, Kids, Chasing Rainbows

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• I'm a daughter of a minister and I love chasing the Dark. That which is hidden. I like licking it like ice cream

  Tori Amos

  Daughter, Dark, Ice Cream

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• Joy comes to us in moments--ordina ry moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.

  Brené Brown

  Joy, Missing, Risk

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead”, p.125, Penguin

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