Pursuit Quotes

Not a moment had been lost by General Hooker in the pursuit of Lee.

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.

To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Truth, also is the pursuit of it.

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.