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  • But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.

    Yield   Hands   Moral  
    Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

  • From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That's what I pursued until I was about 20, playing in bands that were taken pretty seriously at that stage.

    Taken   Ambition   Age  
    "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.
  • a writer's first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous cost. Paid, so far as I am concerned, joyfully.

    Cost   Firsts   Clarity  
    Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.118, A&C Black
  • Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

    Pursued  
    Viktor E Frankl (2011). “Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning”, p.90, Random House
  • Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.

    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.64
  • A few years later the Naval Academy was founded at Annapolis, and a similar course was pursued to provide it with a corps of instructors.

    Years   Annapolis   Naval  
  • We cannot move casually into a better future. We cannot casually pursue the goal we have set for ourselves. A goal that is casually pursued is not a goal; at best it is a wish, and wishes are little more than self-delusion.

    Moving   Self   Goal  
  • Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued. But he was honest enough to admit that he had never yet been made to suffer by cards or by women. One day, and he accepted the fact he would be brought to his knees by love or by luck.

    Love   Luck   Suffering  
  • Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.

    Life   Change   Past  
  • The foolish took their lamps, but took no oil (pursued ministry as their priority over getting oil). The wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps (pursued oil as their priority before ministry). At the dark midnight hour of history, the Spirit will raise up forerunners who cry out that Jesus is coming as a Bridegroom God and that we must go out to meet Him (make the necessary effort to encounter Him). They all slept which speaks of living in context to the natural processes of life.

    Wise   Jesus   Dark  
  • the right line of conduct is the same for both sexes, though the manner in which it is pursued, may somewhat vary, and be accommodated to the strength or weakness of the different travelers.

    Sex   Lines   May  
    Fanny Burney (1850). “Evelina: or, The history of a young lady's introduction to the world”, p.233
  • The most important thing I found out from my father is that if you asked any question and pursued it deeply enough, then at the end there was a glorious discovery of a general and beautiful kind.

    "No Ordinary Genius". Book by Christopher Sykes, p. 28, 1994.
  • Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

  • I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that

    Hollywood   Film   Enough  
  • A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.

  • What psycho-analysis reveals in the transference phenomena of neurotics can also be observed in the lives of some normal people. The impression they give is of being pursued by a malignant fate or possessed by some 'daemonic' power; but psycho-analysis has always taken the view that their fate is for the most part arranged by themselves and determined by early infantile influences.

    Taken   Fate   Views  
    Sigmund Freud (2015). “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, p.15, Courier Corporation
  • The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.

    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.43, Wordsworth Editions
  • I was playing video games LONG before I ever thought about playing football. If it wasn't for my parents making sure that I got outside every now and then as a child, I probably would've pursued some sort of tech path.

  • Happiness pursued eludes, happiness given returns.

    Return   Elude   Given  
    John Marks Templeton (2008). “Wisdom From World Religions: Pathways Toward Heaven On Earth”, p.273, Templeton Foundation Press
  • If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today.

    War   Cancer   President  
    "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. May 3, 2009.
  • The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.

    Jeremy Bentham (1996). “The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation”, p.21, Clarendon Press
  • Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

  • Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science.

    Keys   Law   Enquiry  
  • I read The Hunger Games voraciously and was extremely annoyed when interrupted by such inconsequential things as 'Christmas dinner.' (God, Mom, did you not understand Katniss was being pursued by the mutts? You have several children, why does it always have to be about collecting the whole set all the time?)

    Mom   Children   Katniss  
  • I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators.

    Believe   Law   Iraq  
  • That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time

    Girl   Dream   Strong  
  • We need to make sure that leaks of classified information, of national security secrets, needs to be rigorously pursued and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

    Council on Foreign Relations meeting, www.cfr.org. August 8, 2012.
  • Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.

    Men   Ideas   Quests  
    Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Together they [President Nixon and Secretary Kissinger] pursued ends that frequently had a tenuous link with reality, using means that were not merely disproportionate but counterproductive and untrue to those values they were meant to defend. In fact neither man demonstrated much faith in those values.

    Mean   Reality   Men  
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