Pursuit Quotes - Page 39

• The pursuit of exotic beauty in such a life would have been like having a ball of tinfoil in your stomach, all that airy metal filling you up with hunger.

  Laura Kasischke

  Balls, Exotic, Hunger

  Laura Kasischke (2014). “White Bird in a Blizzard”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness.

  Hugh Jackman

  Meditation, Surroundings, Nothingness

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• That honeymoon phase is so much fun in real life, when you meet and discover somebody new and fall in love and chase them. The pursuit. And that climactic final moment of ultimate togetherness.

  Lucas Neff

  Falling In Love, Fun, Real

  "Raising Hope's Lucas Neff on starting stand-up and how his show apes The Simpsons". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. February 5, 2013.

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• To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Art, Hair, Form

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• On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people - Muslims and Christians - have suffered in pursuit of a homeland.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Hands, People

  Speech in Cairo, www.nytimes.com. June 4, 2009.

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• In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying to that man that he has no right to exist. You are in a real way depriving him of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, denying in his case the very creed of his society.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jobs, Real, Men

  Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). “The trumpet of conscience”, HarperCollins

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• 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.

  Richard Trumka

  Wall, Economic Inequality, Goal

  "Unions mobilize, put Dems on notice - Gov. Blunt's profile - Tiahrt hawks Hawker - The frat PAC - AT&T/T-Mobile action" by Chris Frates, www.politico.com. May 20, 2011.

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• Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Understanding, World, Truth Is

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

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• It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.

  Piero Scaruffi

  Pursuit Of Happiness, People, Unhappy

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• Life in this world is short. Let us make use of our lives in the pursuit of happiness and not trouble.

  Tunku Abdul Rahman

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Use, World

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

  Marc Gafni

  Joy, Passionate, Natural

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• Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.

  Oliver DeMille

  Children, Educational, Reading

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• If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses.

  Julian Sands

  Glasses, Let It Go, Pairs

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

  Rene Dubos

  Dark, Age, May

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• The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq's pursuit. We acted because we saw the evidence in a dramatic new light - through the prism of our experience on 9/11.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Light, Iraq, Saws

  "Rumsfeld: War not prompted by new proof", www.cnn.com. July 10, 2003.

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• The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused grouping together the lofty deeds of a great number of heroes, whose names they have not even deigned to preserve, and investing the single personage of Hercules with them. In our own time the public delight in blending fable with history. In every career of life, in the pursuit of science especially, they enjoy a pleasure in creating Herculeses.

  Francois Arago

  Hero, Passion, Science

  "Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men". Book by François Arago, translated by William Henry Smyth, Baden Powell and Robert Grant. Chapter: 'Joseph Fourier', p. 408, 1859.

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• I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Happiness, Sex, Liberty

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1974). “The Victoria Woodhull Reader”, Weston, Mass. : M&S Press

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• Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.

  Gary Zukav

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Insecurity

  Gary Zukav, Linda Francis (2012). “Heart Of The Soul: Emotional Awareness”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of civilization may be a useless companion on a mountain.

  Frank Smythe

  Men, Hiking, Civilization

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• Since the discovery of oxygen the civilised world has undergone a revolution in manners and customs. The knowledge of the composition of the atmosphere, of the solid crust of the earth, of water, and of their influence upon the life of plants and animals, was linked to that discovery. The successful pursuit of innumerable trades and manufactures, the profitable separation of metals from their ores, also stand in the closest connection therewith.

  Justus von Liebig

  Successful, Animal, Discovery

  Justus von Liebig (1859). “Familiar Letters on Chemistry, in its relation to Physiology, Dietetics, Agriculture, Commerce and Political Economy: Edited by John Blyth”, p.5

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• One may ask the question as to the extent to which the quest for beauty is an aim in the pursuit of science. . . . It is, indeed, an incredible fact that what the human mind, at its deepest and most profound, perceives as beautiful finds its realization in external nature. What is intelligible is also beautiful.

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

  Beautiful, Math, Science

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• The Master Mind principle: Two or more people actively engaged in the pursuit of a definite purpose with a positive mental attitude, constitute an unbeatable force.

  Napoleon Hill

  Attitude, Two, People

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• We measure areas of performance that are often ignored: jumping in pursuit of every rebound even if you don't get it, swatting at every pass, diving for loose balls, letting someone smash into you in order to draw the foul. These 'effort' statistics are also stored on computer. Effort is what ultimately separates journeyman players from impact players. Knowing how well a player executes all these little things is the key to unlocking career-best performances.

  Pat Riley

  Sports, Player, Knowing

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• It was humanly impossible for the disciples to free themselves from their selfish pursuit of self-exaltation, just as it's impossible for us to free ourselves from the very same sins.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Selfish, Exaltation, Impossible

  C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.31, Multnomah

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• I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Positivity, Pursuit Of Happiness, Thinking

  "Jamaica Kincaid Hates Happy Endings". Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. September, 1997.

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