#pursuit

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. ↗

— Ted Strickland

#american #american workers #built #expense #freedom

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#application #austere #degenerate #doubt #formulas

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. ↗

— James Hillman

#drop #happiness #happy #here #i

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do. ↗

— Richard Steele

#any #care #endless #frivolous #minds

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#aristocracy #art #august #civil #definite

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#cost #could #everything #friends #grow

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#ends #game #litigation #practical #pursuit

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#beauty #certainly #interesting #makes #precisely

Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#always #capital #class #class struggle #effective

My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value. ↗

— Lance Loud

#freedom #had #less #lust #personal