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Pursued by grace and supernatural power from God, I will passionately pursued my most cherished dreams. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Rest is valuable only so far as it is a contrast. Pursued as an end, it becomes a most pitiable condition. -- David Swing
A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I, measuring his affections by my own,Which then most sought where most might not be found,Being one too many by my weary self,Pursued my humor not pursuing his,And gladly shunned who gladly fled from me. -- William Shakespeare
Money is usually attracted, not pursued. -- Jim Rohn
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality. -- George Wald
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become. -- Jim Rohn
Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation. -- Arnold Palmer
Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other. -- Joyce Meyer
In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance. -- Mao Zedong
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets. -- Edward Teller
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end. -- Tacitus
I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness. -- Brandon Boyd
Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life. -- Dean Koontz
Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't? -- Charlie Sheen
There's a certain kind of cultural energy pursued by the gatekeepers of elite discourse, who want to argue that Americans fundamentally agree with each other, and that's the health of the nation. -- Rick Perlstein
In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes. -- Lincoln Steffens
Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda. -- Anita Roddick
I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing. -- Lana Del Rey
Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind. -- Andrew Weil
The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell. -- Jeremy Bentham
I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant. -- J. William Fulbright
My strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream. -- Jason Mraz
I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony. -- Clarence Thomas
But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream. -- Jason Mraz
I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society. Perhaps, my belief is along the old saying that 'it is always better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.' -- Al Seckel
Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic training nor the passion for cool logic - not to mention the nerve - to follow in the footsteps of classical liberal philosophers and economists such as Robert Nozick, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman. -- Anne Fortier
Exit, pursued by a bear. -- William Shakespeare
Happiness pursued eludes, happiness given returns. -- John Templeton
Wealth is always attracted, never pursued. -- Babe Ruth
I never pursued being 'famous.' -- Francesca Annis
I never pursued a career relentlessly -- Armand Assante
Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued -- Viktor E. Frankl
Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment. -- Seneca the Younger
All my life I've pursued the perfect red. -- Diana Vreeland
His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken. -- H. G. Wells
I have pursued her, as love hath pursued me -- William Shakespeare
I love writing. I've pursued it with a passion. -- Betsy Byars
Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion. -- William Shenstone
No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical. -- Janet Morris
I pursued a theatre career, and Hollywood came calling. -- Len Cariou
Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued. -- William Cowper
All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued. -- Nadine Gordimer
Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued. -- Clayton Christensen
There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued. -- Jack Kemp
When the dream came into being, I always pursued it. -- Marguerite Young
Acting is what I've pursued since I was a child. -- Kristanna Loken
It is only when you are pursued that you become swift. -- Khalil Gibran
Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood. -- Colin Firth
Success is an outcome of conscious choices pursued consistently and tirelessly. -- Vishwas Chavan
Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes. -- Hannah More
When pursued with a pure heart, acting is an entirely selfless profession. -- Masiela Lusha
In every passionate pursuit, the pursuit counts more than the object pursued. -- Eric Hoffer
I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces. -- Steven Spielberg
I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. -- Carl Sagan
Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program. -- Spencer W. Kimball
I'd rather have a second-best decision diligently pursued than a first-best decision lackadaisically pursued. -- Tom Landry
Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do. -- Bob Ross
If you pursued something that you felt strongly about, then I call that success. -- Adora Svitak
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force. -- Charles Baudelaire
There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Chinese nation has always pursued a life in harmony with other nations despite differences. -- Li Zhaoxing
The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide. -- Samuel Eliot Morison
"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God. -- Dallas Willard
Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training. -- Jane Haddam
I can't say that I pursued a career. I really didn't, it just sort of happened. -- Angela Lansbury
To be a Christian is to be loved by God, pursued by God, and found by God. -- David Platt
Happiness is not some 'thing' to be pursued it is a way of being born from appreciating -- Rasheed Ogunlaru
The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument. -- Mencius
Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
One of the first things we found out was that the Warren Commission never pursued a conspiracy investigation. -- Louis Stokes
Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you. -- Mahatma Gandhi
For a number of years I was relentlessly pursued by 10 to 15 men, almost daily. Spat at, verbally abused. -- Sienna Miller
Before I pursued acting full-time, I had every intention of going into some form of law enforcement work. -- Michael Trucco
Working toward perfection is not a one time decision but a process to be pursued throughout one's lifetime. -- Spencer W. Kimball
I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that -- Armand Assante
Poisoned, pursued and living with a psychopath. Not what I would consider the good life. Death has its perks. -- Maria V. Snyder
I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that. -- Armand Assante
If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today. -- Arlen Specter
For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree -- Thomas Paine
A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued. -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar. -- Ambrose Bierce
Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely may be pursued too keenly may cost too much. -- Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
If God exists then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling can matter forever. -- Timothy Keller
The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Looking back, I should have pursued philosophy and economics and things of that sort in college more, but I didn't. -- Dan Quayle
Anything pursued and attained as a supposed compensation for the lack of self-love is ineffective and can get downright ugly. -- Jesse D. Jennings
I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music. -- Skylar Grey
We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated. -- Barack Obama
You will have Time, that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it. -- James Hilton
The authentic is almost never found by being pursued; but there is no missing it when you are in its presence. -- Eva Hoffman
Any violation of civil rights will be aggressively pursued and prosecuted by my administration. No one will be above the law. -- Donald Trump
All is not done when we have spoken to God by prayer; our petitions are to be pursued with real endeavours. -- Benjamin Whichcote
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense. -- George Berkeley
I don't think I've ever really pursued telling my story, but I think things come to you at the right time. -- Charisma Carpenter
We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll. -- E. J. Dionne
I love to be pursued. I think that when you're not a challenge, it's just nnot as fun for the guy. -- Eva Longoria
Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science. -- Bridget Riley
But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuit that does not readily let go. -- Victor Hugo
Just to prove that even the silliest idea can be pursued to its illogical conclusion, Legal Realism spawned Critical Legal Studies. -- Alex Kozinski
After examining some of the recent cases which the Postal Service has pursued, vigorous prosecution of, for example, a health food advocate. -- Vin Weber
It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end. -- Thomas Jefferson
You see, in a world where elephants are pursued by flying men, people are just naturally going to want to get high. -- Judith Rascoe
Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life. -- George Eliot
Growth in any individual European country has to be the result of policies for growth pursued in that country consistent with budgetary discipline. -- Mario Monti
Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness. -- Albert Einstein
If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform. -- Thomas Jefferson
In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance -- Mao Tse-tung
If there is one instance in which a foreign policy I pursued met with unambiguous failure, it was my policy on German reunification. -- Margaret Thatcher
Running is special. We've all done it: well, poorly, focused, in fear, being pursued, toward a goal. It's just elemental. Running is like fire. -- Rob Delaney
[Donald Trump] will appoint an attorney general, who will send very clear messages about how law enforcement is to be pursued in this country. -- Chris Christie
The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting, and destructive. -- Jonathan Raban
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory. -- Plato
The cookbooks and the writing in general have been a real bonus, but it's not something I've ever pursued... I've been lucky, I guess. -- Padma Lakshmi

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