Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade; When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees. So Fortune's smiles the fickle crowd pursues, But swift is gone whenever she veils her face.
No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.
When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.
It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.
He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.
Is there enough to go around? What is enough? Who can tell us? Certainly not the economist who pursues economic growth as the highest of all values, and therefore has no concept of enough.
Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. It leaves us in a blind alley. But, like methodical doubt, it can, by returning upon itself, open up a new field of investigation, and in the process of reasoning then pursues the same course. I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my proclamation and I must at least believe in my protest.
Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.
I've always had lots of friends who share my perspective - I guess you could say that I'm a guy who aggressively pursues his happiness.
The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.
Passion pursues; love surrenders.
A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.
Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear.
Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.
It is not man who pursues truth, but truth man.
A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.
There are two kinds of suffering in this life. That which pursues us and that which we doggedly pursue.