Pastoral Resources

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

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.

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.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

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

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

Not a moment had been lost by General Hooker in the pursuit of Lee.

God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.