#pursuit

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#aristocracy #background #chivalry #civilization #exalted

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#chiefly #composer #exposure #false #i

You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me. ↗

— Donald Sutherland

#bit #certain #find #fortune #four

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

Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze. ↗

— George Vancouver

#attention #being #breeze #considering #continued

The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school. ↗

— William H. Gray

#argument #colorblind #equal #fair #free

Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

#broadest #contribution #engaged #enrichment #human

If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses. ↗

— Julian Sands

#big #distracting #finding #glasses #go

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything. ↗

— William Carey

#definite #everything #i #i can #owe

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory. ↗

— Mario Cuomo

#charging #few #few things #glory #greater