#pursuit

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

Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy ↗

— Tupac Shakur

#pursuit #sex #tease #women #hate

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

Whatever pursuit you undertake, the requirements should start with a love of what it is that you are pursuing. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#pursuing #pursuit #requirements #should #start

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, 'What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?' ↗

— Brian Eno

#else #front #i #i think #microphone

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. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#believe #creed #everlasting #gave #god

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. ↗

— George Will

#improvement #often #perfection #pursuit

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