Chase But Never Find Quotes & Sayings

If you're doing something you love with people you love in a place you love, you are going to create something of value to the world. — Martha Beck

The funny thing about almost-dying is that afterward everyone expects you to jump on the happy train and take time to chase butterflies through grassy fields or see rainbows in puddles of oil on the highway. It's a miracle, they'll say with an expectant look, as if you've been given a big old gift and you better not disappoint Grandma by pulling a face when you unwrap the box and find a lumpy, misshapen sweater.
That's what life is, pretty much: full of holes and tangles and ways to get stuck. Uncomfortable and itchy. A present you never asked for, never wanted, never chose. A present you're supposed to be excited to wear, day after day, even when you'd rather stay in bed and do nothing.
The truth is this: it doesn't take any skill to almost-die, or to almost-live, either. — Lauren Oliver

During another argument, Gene snapped at Peter: "Peter, you're an illiterate idiot who can't read or even talk correctly and never finished school." "Yeah," said Peter, "and I'm in the same band as you." To this day, that remains the smartest thing I ever heard Peter say. — Paul Stanley

I've never really presumed to know what my fans want or like. When I'm making the music, I just chase whatever I find interesting that day and luckily there are people who find it interesting as well. — Eric Hutchinson

The whole thing's absurd," he said. "Your sister married a duke. I told Clevedon ... " he trailed off.
"What did you tell him?"
"Never mind that now," he said.
"I certainly will mind it now," she said.
"Do you want to find Clara or do you want to quarrel?" he said.
"Preferably both," she said. — Loretta Chase

It's what we chase but never find. It is the mystery of our lives, the understanding that even when we have everything we want it is one day to leave us. It's the something unseen, the lurking devastation, the darkness that gives our lives dimension. — Marisha Pessl

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Now women are funny animals. You never know when you are with them - they don't often know where they are with themselves . It's no good trying to find out what makes them tick. It just can't be done. They have more moods than an army of cats with lives, and all you can hope is to spot the mood you're after when it turns up and step in quick. Hesitate you're a dead duck, unless you're one of those guys who like slow approach that might get you somewhere in a week or in a month or even a year. — James Hadley Chase

You are home for me now." --Jem to Tessa — Cassandra Clare

I have passed the period of a woman's life when as a woman she is loved; but I have have not outlived the power of loving. — Anthony Trollope

you'll never find a shoe store
that sells a pair of glass heels
so make your own
or just buy a pair of sneakers instead

it's more practical
to chase your future prince
don't you think?

-don't wait, run — Emi Sisk

I think the best thing I ever did was never tell anyone I wanted to be an actor. I find if you tell people what you're dreaming about, they'll usually come up with lots of reasons to not chase your dreams. — Poorna Jagannathan

As for what other people think of me, I could worry about that every day, but choose not to. — Wendi Deng Murdoch

I mean to court you, yes," he went on. "But in these
coming days I am determined as well to find a way to ease your heart."
It took her a moment to answer, because the heart he spoke of was so full. "You're a shockingly
good man," she said at last. She mustered a smile. "Perhaps I'd better say yes and have done with it. I'
ve never had any trouble resisting men's lures - at least not since that first time - but so much kindness is
beyond me."
"No, I want a hearty yes," he said. "No questions, no doubts. I am determined to make you
believe your life will be a desert - utterly unlivable without me. — Loretta Chase

In non-violence the cause has to be just and clear as well as the means. — Cesar Chavez

The walls of self-preservation that you build for today are the walls of self-imprisonment for tomorrow. Boundaries that you establish in your life as a protection for yourself today will feel like constraints tomorrow. — Sadhguru

One in eight plant species face extinction. — David Attenborough

It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly. — Gelett Burgess

Never chase people. Be you and the right people who belong in your life and deserve a place in your heart will come, find and appreciate you! — Lily Amis

We're always itching to go, to move on, to escape. We convince ourselves we could truly be happy if only we were somewhere else. Or somebody else.
While it's smart to plan for the future, we won't find real happiness if our eyes never leave the horizon. When we're all rushing off in different directions, we miss the worthwhile places, and worthwhile people, already around us.
But we can't wait for them to chase us down - we've got to seek them out. Because for two people to meet in the middle, both have to take that first step. — Kirsten Hubbard

The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift to doing that. — Meredith Whitney

Nothing is too small a subject for prayer, because nothing is too small to be the subject of God's care. — Henry Thomas Hamblin

I wasn't never gonna run off again, no matter how bad things got. But I wasn't gonna be too scared to love the folks that took the time to love me back, and I sure wasn't gonna chase them that don't. And I was gonna spend the rest of my life asking questions and looking behind everything that happened, so I could find the gifts I got tucked inside me. — Susan Crandall

Its better to pace yourself throughout a big day like Thanksgiving by having something healthful for breakfast and something light for lunch. — Marilu Henner

Never abandon imagination — Tony DiTerlizzi

As I got older I looked at the world and I realised, we need armour. So my jewellery and clothes became my armour — Daphne Guinness

Sometimes with anger you can be much more dangerous than with skill. — Mathieu Amalric