Constant Pursuit Quotes

I'm tired of being hunted all over. I can't go anywhere without criticism.

Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

I've been... chased by paparazzi, and they run lights, and they chase you and harass you the whole time. It happens all over the world, and it has certainly gotten worse. You don't know what it's like being chased by them.

You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.

I followed Taylor everywhere. I was always trying to catch up after him or go with him.

Enough is ever-receding.

If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.

Well, I don't look back and celebrate. I just always worry about the next one.

Vesco was always on the trail in search of money.

Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires from before them, yet without hiding itself from their sight, and in retiring draws them on. At every moment they think they are about to grasp it; it escapes at every moment from their hold. They are near enough to see its charms, but too far off to enjoy them; and before they have fully tasted its delights they die.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until it be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death.

If you are a Jedi, just understand something: people are going to be chasing you. The Jedi Council of every city you enter is going to be chasing you. I've been accosted by the Jedi Council in Rio and everywhere else.