#pursue

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ↗

#catch #constitution #gives #only #people

Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs. ↗

— George Soros

#allow #care #designed #great #i

People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs. ↗

— Abdolkarim Soroush

#any #basic #basic needs #concern #first

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation. ↗

— Robert South

#expectation #finds #greatest #half #himself

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain. ↗

— Robert Southey

#certain #effect #end #evil #good

If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#cancer #cured #declared #had #i

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#bring #come #gained #happiness #little

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#forces #got #i #large #ordinary

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#direct #drawback #fame #fancy #great

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter. ↗