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Pursuits become habits. -- Ovid
Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.] -- Ovid
The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity. -- Martin Van Buren
Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits. -- John Mayer
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. -- Thomas Aquinas
To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. -- Marcus Aurelius
It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us. -- George H. White
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
We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedral or writing a novel requires stone and mortar or paper and ink). -- Virginia Postrel
Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. -- Albert Einstein
The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none. -- Andrew Jackson
From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits. -- Ernest Lawrence
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. -- Thomas Jefferson
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits. -- John Locke
I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts, I am all about the truth and I am all about Godly pursuits and what this country was built on, and I am not apologetic about it. -- Luke Scott
The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits. -- Patti Smith
Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people. -- Gil Scott-Heron
It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. -- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half. -- Plato
Many filmmakers portray teenagers as immoral and ignorant, with pursuits that are pretty base... But I haven't found that to be the case. I listen to kids. I respect them... Some of them are as bright as any of the adults I've met. -- John Hughes
My life has always been compartmentalized into different aspects. I have my speed skating Olympic pursuits, I have my personal life and have my business life and have my entertainment - TV - Hollywood - whatever have you - always compartmentalizing every aspect of my life. -- Apolo Ohno
A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial. -- David A. Bednar
When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences. -- Frederick Sanger
I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise. -- Padma Lakshmi
For me, writing, drawing, and political activism are three separate pursuits; each has its own intensity. I happen to be especially attuned to and engaged with the society in which I live. Both my writing and my drawing are invariably mixed up with politics, whether I want them to be or not. -- Gunter Grass
If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes. -- Arabella Weir
Men of different tastes have different pursuits. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Do not waste this life in vain pursuits. -- Isaac of Nineveh
Our pursuits are for perfection but possibilities are endless. -- Debasish Mridha
Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits. -- Carl Jung
Zombies can't believe the energy we waste on nonfood pursuits. -- Patton Oswalt
There's always risk in life's most rewarding pursuits, isn't there? -- Ted Dekker
There are only two noble pursuits in life: knowledge and love. -- Carlos Salinas
I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that. -- Van Morrison
My life is sectioned off into hot flushes, pursuits of this or that. -- Tom Stoppard
As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits. -- Horace
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits. -- William James
Let people be the pursuits of happiness, you be the pursuit of perfection. -- Amit Kalantri
I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden. -- Hayley Mills
In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits. -- Ashwin Sanghi
To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events. -- Sallust
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. -- William James
Fill your brain with giant dreams so it has no space for petty pursuits. -- Robin Sharma
Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight. -- Thomas Jefferson
This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits. -- Isaac of Nineveh
I cannot say Who Art in Heaven-If all my interests and pursuits are in earthly things. -- Ken Blanchard
Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life. -- Brigham Young
The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits. -- Howard Zinn
When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits. -- Gary Gygax
Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves To spend his time in his accustomed art. -- Ovid
I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits." -- Mark Gatiss
I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits. -- Mark Gatiss
When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness. -- David Hume
Make a strong and permanent commitment to invest your talents only in pursuits that deserve your best efforts. -- Nido R Qubein
Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments. -- Gore Vidal
The culture of caring and giving permeates many Indian families. In their own way, they are engaged in philanthropic pursuits. -- Kumar Mangalam Birla
The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits. -- Thomas Jefferson
As we grow older and mature in each incarnation, we are drawn back to samskaras, to previous interests and pursuits. -- Frederick Lenz
If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false. -- Charles Spurgeon
As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves. -- Charles Tomlinson
Life has been reduced to temporal pursuits disconnected from all the other disciplines necessary for life to be meaningfully engaged. -- Ravi Zacharias
Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits. -- Oliver DeMille
As we grow older and mature in each incarnation, we are drawn back to samskaras, to previous interests and pursuits. -- Frederick Lenz
You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer. -- Ted Cruz
I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them. -- Henry David Thoreau
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. -- Herbert Spencer
If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated. -- Henry Adams
Also, painting and animation are really solitary pursuits, so the collaborative aspects of music making and acting are pretty welcome sometimes. -- Tunde Adebimpe
Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits. -- David Horowitz
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views. -- Samuel Richardson
Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam. -- Richard Dawkins
What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.] -- Carl Jung
I really like England. I like the lifestyle and the country. The history. The culture, which London is full of. The country pursuits. -- Leon Max
Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy. -- Thomas Aquinas
I'm very fortunate. I have a wonderful family, lots of hobbies and athletic pursuits. I always wanted to have a very well-rounded life. -- Laura Lang
Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. -- Tom Schulman
The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals. -- Charles Caldwell Ryrie
Parents bobble between a nostalgia-infused yearning for their children to play and fear that time spent playing is time lost to more practical pursuits. -- Robin Marantz Henig
The greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the pursuits of peace. -- George W. Bush
It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his employment. -- Demosthenes
The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals. -- Charles C. Ryrie
All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do -- Rasheed Ogunlaru
All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death. -- Milarepa
As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart. -- Leo Tolstoy
New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the United States. -- James F. Cooper
It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many. -- Edmund Burke
When your entire life is focused around one goal and one goal only, and you have no other pursuits, it enables you to achieve enormous mastery. -- Liz Garbus
How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint. -- Henry David Thoreau
The thing is, my dad's always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursuits, but nobody can escape the passion that football stirs. -- Shakira
The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God. -- Frederick Lenz
Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds. -- Arthur Eddington
Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds. -- Arthur Eddington
The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God. -- Frederick Lenz
If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Never be too busy for the people you love. Never allow pursuits or possessions to become bigger priorities than your relationships. Love is what gives meaning to life. -- Dave Willis
Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power...it is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits. -- Justus von Liebig
But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they get the demonstration from the Scriptures themselves. -- Clement of Alexandria
All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account. -- Thomas Huxley
A computer can be a useful and indispensable tool. But if we allow it to devour our time with vain, unproductive, and sometimes destructive pursuits, it becomes an entangling net. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
The fruits eaten temperately need not make us ashamed of our appetites, nor interrupt the worthiest pursuits. But put an extra condiment into your dish, and it will poison you. -- Henry David Thoreau
You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, ackowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins. -- Jim Stovall
The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements. -- Pliny the Elder
To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
More than we sleep, play, or make love, we work. Yet despite - or perhaps because of - this dominant daily grind, much of our literature is biased toward other pursuits. -- Paul Di Filippo
One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits. -- Nathanael Emmons
With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike. -- Henry David Thoreau
Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver. He never authorized a 'retirement age' from those pursuits! -- Paula White
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. -- Henry David Thoreau
Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator of convention, cultural commodity, and global hobby. -- Barbara Kruger
I'm married to my job. I'm obsessed with my work, and I run myself into the ground every single day. Unfortunately, a lot of other pursuits have to take a back seat. -- Robert Kazinsky
Though I probably shouldn't admit this, the activities and pursuits in which I've achieved any measure of success are, without exception, activities and pursuits that came easily to me from the beginning. -- Meghan Daum
Im married to my job. Im obsessed with my work, and I run myself into the ground every single day. Unfortunately, a lot of other pursuits have to take a back seat. -- Robert Kazinsky

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