#pursuit

For the freedoms our founding fathers not only dreamed about, but made into reality. It is that same pursuit of freedom today that is helping to make our world a safer place. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#dreamed #fathers #founding #founding fathers #freedom

But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy. ↗

— James Nasmyth

#astronomy #attractive #beauty #brilliancy #clear

What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#constant #could #enjoyed #fixed #guidance

Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit. ↗

— James Payn

#choosing #course #guide #matter #nature

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#better #civilized #couched #die #flight

It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#commonality #experience #humane #makes #most

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

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#art #being #bored #commonly #fortune

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

Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#certain #closer #constitution #country #created