A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
But when I discovered music, I knew that that's what I wanted to do in my life and I just jumped in all the way and pursued my dreams as a musician.
Poisoned, pursued and living with a psychopath. Not what I would consider the good life. Death has its perks.
It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.
"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
All is not done when we have spoken to God by prayer; our petitions are to be pursued with real endeavours.
Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.
If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.
I obeyed my parents' rules inside our Chinese household while I pursued my dreams in the American world outside.
A few years later the Naval Academy was founded at Annapolis, and a similar course was pursued to provide it with a corps of instructors.
If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.
For a number of years I was relentlessly pursued by 10 to 15 men, almost daily. Spat at, verbally abused.
Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime.
I never pursued acting with, like, auditions. If anything, I was given roles by people who knew me and liked what I did.
Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.
All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
You see, in a world where elephants are pursued by flying men, people are just naturally going to want to get high.
Before I pursued acting full-time, I had every intention of going into some form of law enforcement work.
Looking back, I should have pursued philosophy and economics and things of that sort in college more, but I didn't.
Anything pursued and attained as a supposed compensation for the lack of self-love is ineffective and can get downright ugly.
Iran has pursued a deliberate policy of kidnapping and unjustly detaining innocent Americans since the very beginning of its revolutionary regime.
One of the first things we found out was that the Warren Commission never pursued a conspiracy investigation.
Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.
I was always inclined towards spiritualism but was afraid that I would become a sanyasin if I pursued it actively.
Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.
At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.
Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness.
Only people who lack wisdom would say that a project should be pursued even if it leads to wanton destruction of forests.
You will have Time, that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it.
The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.
But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.
Truth ... Is a breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom; Long have I pursued it, But never have I touched The hem of its garment.
Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.
For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither.
On the left, nationalisation is pursued for its own sake - as a panacea that will somehow fix train travel all by itself.
Energy cogeneration on Capitol Hill makes economic and environmental sense and should be pursued for those reasons.
You make choices, as a young man. I knew I wanted to be an actor, so I pursued that, but the desire to compete still stayed with me.
We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll.
I probably wouldn't have pursued comedy further if my friends didn't tell me that my getting kicked off the stage was the funniest thing they'd ever seen.
For my first gig, I got $75. I could make money being funny, so I pursued it as a career and have turned it into a lucrative business.
I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.
Working toward perfection is not a one time decision but a process to be pursued throughout one's lifetime.
I never wanted to be singer. People in my family love music, and I pursued it as a hobby.
The Chinese nation has always pursued a life in harmony with other nations despite differences.
I went to school at the University of Rhode Island and pursued a degree in journalism, which is a little bit ironic.
I've pursued every avenue open to me ever, so I don't really understand the idea that I walked away from opportunities.
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.'
What is important to us is to reverse the shameful course being pursued by America. It won't be easy, but it must and can be done.
Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.
I have pursued my dream and I believe it is important to give back because I have been given the opportunity to be what I am now.
In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.
For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.
The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide.
The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.
Rest is valuable only so far as it is a contrast. Pursued as an end, it becomes a most pitiable condition.
Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.
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