Pursuit Quotes

Whatever pursuit you undertake, the requirements should start with a love of what it is that you are pursuing.

I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.

Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

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.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.

You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.

Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.

I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.

In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can.

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

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

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.