Chasing Quotes - Page 16

• We're all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary.

  Brené Brown

  Grateful, Ordinary, Busy

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• If you're dreaming of being a great soloist, walking on stage, receiving ovations night after night, having money thrown at you, girls chasing after you and your beautiful picture - that's wonderful. But what exactly does that have to do with the practice of music?

  Wu Han

  Beautiful, Girl, Dream

  "David Finckel and Wu Han". Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. July 11, 2012.

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• In the early morning hours, Hannah read at the table by the dim light of dawn. She leaned in close to the pages, chin resting on her folded arms, eyes racing over the words, like chasing butterflies over the hills, to catch as many as she could before going to work. She wondered at how such tales of magic could be contained by mere paper and ink for her to read again and again.

  Matthew J. Kirby

  Morning, Butterfly, Eye

  Matthew J. Kirby (2012). “The Clockwork Three”, p.29, Scholastic Inc.

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• The people who put you down don't have to stop you from chasing your dreams. Stand up, and prove them wrong.

  Selena Gomez

  Dream, People, Prove Them Wrong

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• We will never be the women God wants us to be if our hearts are continually chasing after human approval.

  Kylie Bisutti

  Heart, Want, Approval

  Kylie Bisutti (2013). “I'm No Angel: From Victoria's Secret Model to Role Model”, p.253, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen.

  Grover Cleveland

  Patriotic, Thoughtful, Lakes

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• Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.

  Ann Brashares

  Soccer, Stars, School

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.188, Delacorte Press

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• Most people chasing their dreams don't see the bigger picture, they just see the silhouette. Make the vision real!

  Joel Brown

  Dream, Real, People

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• So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.

  John Green

  Want, Had Enough, Ghost

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.163, Penguin

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• The problem with chasing after happiness was that it wasn't a destination you could reach. It was something that happened along the way.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Way, Problem, Destination

  Lisa Kleypas (2012). “Rainshadow Road”, p.149, Macmillan

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• You see more sitting still than chasing after.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Sitting Still, Stills, Stillness

  "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• It was just 12 months ago that I was the one doing the chasing and looking for all the big names. I guess now I'm universally recognized as No. 1 in the division and they're all looking for me. To be in a position where I can pick my opponents, wow, that's a fighter's dream, really.

  Ricky Hatton

  Dream, Motivation, Names

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• He's already chasing you. Now all you have to do is keep running. Just not too fast.

  Tammara Webber

  Running, Keep Running

  "Easy". Book by Tammara Webber, May, 2012.

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• Seeing your mother naked is not something you easily recover from. Seeing your mother naked and jumping from one side of a king-sized bed to the other with a nurse's hat on while your father, who is also naked, is chasing her with a bandanna around his neck, is reason to put yourself up for adoption.

  Chelsea Handler

  Mother, Kings, Father

  Chelsea Handler (2005). “My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands”, p.2, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orphans, chasing through long years the shadows of vanished parents. There is nothing for it but to try and see through our missions to the end, as best we can, for until we do so, we will be permitted no calm.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Fate, Years, Long

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2001). “When We Were Orphans”, p.382, Vintage

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• Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cycling, Doe, Records

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• The community does not fight crime well by chasing it; after-the-fact, crime has won and the target of violence is injured or worse. Crime is fought best not by chasing it, but by facing it before it can become a completed act.
  
  Crime is fought best at the scene of the violence.

  John Longenecker

  Fighting, Community, Doe

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• We shouldn't be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of Man of Steel.

  Christopher Nolan

  Men, Steel, Tone

  "Christopher Nolan: the man who rebooted the blockbuster". Interview with Tom Shone, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2014.

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• To its committed members (the Democratic Party) was still the party of heart, humanity, and justice, but to those removed a few paces it looked like Captain Hook’s crew–ambulance-chasing lawyers, rapacious public policy grants persons, civil rights gamesmen, ditzy-brained movie stars, fat-assed civil servant desk squatters, recovering alcoholics, recovering wife-beaters, recovering child-buggers, and so forth and so on, a grotesque line-up of ill-mannered self-pitying, caterwauling freeloaders banging their tin cups on the pavement demanding handouts.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Stars, Children, Party

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• I thought she'd make some comment about the bloodthirsty gods chasing us, but when she finally found her voice, she said, "That boy kissed you!" Leave it to Liz to have her priorities straight.

  Rick Riordan

  Boys, Voice, Priorities

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• Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according to plan. Only twenty minutes ago he had decided he would go mad, and now here he was already chasing a Chesterfield sofa across the fields of prehistoric Earth.

  Douglas Adams

  Work Out, Mad, Twenties

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.330, Pan Macmillan

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• Production goes up and up because high pressure advertising and salesmanship constantly create new needs that must be satisfied: this is Admass- a consumer's race with donkeys chasing an electric carrot.

  J. B. Priestley

  Race, Needs, Pressure

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• But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.

  J. K. Rowling

  Immortality, Embrace, Lord Voldemort

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• What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Circles, Darkness, Tails

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “After The Quake”, p.56, Random House

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• Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty.... Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.

  Erich Fromm

  Giving Up, Mean, Self

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