A Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Busy Only Pursued Pursuing Tired

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
American - Novelist
September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940

The older I get, the more I realize how much I have missed because I was so busy entertaining that audience and so busy pursuing a career.

Angela Lansbury

That's the strategy that myself and my party have pursued and are pursuing.

John Hume

People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Rosa Parks

I can't deny that there's a great privilege in having parents who are established in the field that I'm pursuing. I try to appreciate the fact that they're so great at it. They've been such great role models, not only talent-wise but also in how they lead their lives and the reasons why they've pursued this.

Zoe Perry

When I pursued music, I was told, 'oh, he's just pursuing fame and fortune and he's left the call of Christ in his life.'

Guy Sebastian

I'm tired. I am old and I have never quit pursuing my goals. I am heavily involved in real estate right now, but I am trying to get out of it altogether, I am just tired.

Larry Holmes

I sort of get tired of myself sometimes. When you're busy, your life becomes relatively small. But I don't really get tired of talking to other people.

Marc Maron

I was pretty serious about pursuing forensic science as a profession. In fact, I pursued an internship at the office of the chief medical examiner here in New York.

Sarah Weinman

People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Rosa Parks

When you're in your 30s and actively pursuing a career and a home life, a wife and children, you're busy doing as opposed to busy thinking. As you get older, even as you don't have as much time, I think you tend to think more and reflect more on what is happening in your own life.

Alex Trebek

They were pretty tired by now of course; but not what I’d call bitterly tired – only slow and feeling very dreamy and tired as one does when one is coming to the end of a long day in the open.

C. S. Lewis

Sometimes we get so busy pursuing our dream that we forget to notice the degree to which we're living it already.

Victoria Moran

How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.

Iris Murdoch

So the absurdity of happiness is that it is embarrassing to discuss or even mention, impossible to define or measure, may not be achievable at all - or, at best, only intermittently and unconsciously - and may even turn into its opposite if directly pursued, but that it frequently turns up unexpectedly in the course of pursuing something else. There is no tease more infuriating...It is tempting to forget the whole thing and simply fall back on the couch with a remote control in one hand and a beer in the other.