#pursuit

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.' ↗

— Laura Riding

#am #conscious #go #human #human nature

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#calm #even #ought #pursuit #things

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

— Jason Isaacs

#condition #human #human condition #hunger #me

My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence. ↗

— John Kluge

#excellence #life #my life #philosophy #pursuit

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#depends #did #founders #government #happiness

For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#advance #dearth #demands #division #ever

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

When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone. ↗

— Yoshio Taniguchi

#buildings #certain #designed #drawings #fact

It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us. ↗

— George H. White

#accuser #avenue #closes #hard #idleness

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy. ↗

— Joyce Grenfell

#happiness #joy #pursuit #pursuit of happiness #such