Quotes of: Pursuit-of-happiness Keyword

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

If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.

Alfred Russel Wallace

Much of what has gone wrong in the pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace is due to a lack of strong leadership, primarily among the Palestinians.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Samuel Johnson

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

In the constant pursuit of perfection, junk food will always be a rather painful stumbling block

C.S. Woolley

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.

Jason Isaacs

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

Mattie Ross: And "futile", Marshal Cogburn, "pursuit would be futile"? It's not spelled "f-u-d-e-l."

True Grit

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

'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.

Evgeny Morozov

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Barry Goldwater

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

William Carey

The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.

William Vickrey

Happiness is a journey, not a journey's end.

Happiness Recipe: Eat and Stay Happy

You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage.

Jeremy Sisto

If you want to be happy in the future, be happy now.

Debasish Mridha

Happiness is neither in the past, nor in the future. It is here right now, in the present.

Happiness Unlimited: How to be happy always

Choose to be happy. It’s the only sensible option!

The Happiness Code: Ten keys to being the best you can be

Being happy is not a privilege— it is something everyone deserves.

The Happiness Code: Ten keys to being the best you can be

Beyond the curve of his days he glimpsed neither superhuman happiness nor eternity--happiness was human, eternity ordinary.

A Happy Death