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Pursuits Quotes (page 8)

Aldous Huxley quote: "Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of..."
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. Aldous Huxley
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. Voltaire
Tom Brokaw quote: "In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your..."
In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up. Tom Brokaw
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those..."
There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent. W. Somerset Maugham
It is not the pretended but the real pursuit of philosophy that is needed for we do not need the appearance of good health but to enjoy it in truth. Epicurus
I take thisfor myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished with abuse, you shall still hearas long as the beast in me maintainsits taciturn power to close my lidsin tears, and my loins move yetin the ennobling pursuit of all the worldsyou have left me alone in, and would bethe dolorous distraction from, while you summon your army of anguisheswhich is a million hooting blood vesselson the eyes and in the earsat that instant before death. Frank O'Hara
But during all these years I had a vague but persistent desire to return to New Orleans. I never forgot New Orleans. And when we were in tropical places and places of those flowers and trees that grow in Louisiana, I would think of it acutely and I would feel for my home the only glimmer of desire I felt for anything outside my endless pursuit of art. Anne Rice
Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?"Yes, sir, it has."Then why do you do it?"To assuage my fears of sexual impotence. Joseph Heller
Most vagabonds i knowed don't ever want to find the culprit that remains the object of their long relentless quest. The obsession's in the chasing and not the apprehending, the pursuit you see and never the arrest" - Tom Waits "Foreign Affairs Tom Waits
There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit. William S. Burroughs
One knows so well the popular idea of health: the English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the unbeatable. Oscar Wilde
Youth, health, wealth and beauty are meant to be fuel, to be burned in pursuit of pleasure, and not fruit to be pickled in anticipation of some future famine. (Hang on a minute and I'll get my sequins out and give you a quick rendition of 'My Way') Julie Burchill
I said to him one day that the very slender reward which God had attached to the pursuit of serious inquiry was a sufficient proof that He disapproved of it, or at any rate that he did not set much store by it nor wish to encourage it. Samuel Butler
Alfred North Whitehead quote: "The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human..."
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. Alfred North Whitehead
David Brin quote: "The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual..."
The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness. David Brin

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