#pursuit

When you are pursuing your dreams, they will call you CRAZY because they are LAZY. They never know you are a HERO who just jumped away from step ZERO. Stay away from negative people; they will only pollute you. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#distinct #don-t-give-up #hard-work #hero #lazy

The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various individuals’, or groups of individuals’, experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their “pursuit of happiness” to outright obliterating it. ↗

— Aberjhani

#demographics-of-united-states #diversity #equality #freedom #george-zimmerman

There is a Beautiful Creature Living in a hole you have dug. So at night I set fruit and grains And little pots of wine and milk Besides your soft earthen mounds, And I often sing. But still, my dear, You do not come out. I have fallen in love with Someone Who hides inside you. We should talk about this problem-- Otherwise, I will never leave you alone. ↗

— حافظ

#beauty

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#leads #only #pursuit #science

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. ↗

— William Dunbar

#affairs #apply #becomes #difficult #enable

In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#became #divorced #drive #driver #elusive

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

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. ↗

— George Will

#improvement #often #perfection #pursuit

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. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#abandoned #cannot #defeat #either #end

The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into in pursuit of a particular fact, or crack open for entertainment at virtually any page. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#anecdotes #any #book #crack #delve