Quotes About Chasing

#1. We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. I spend four years chasing the guy of my dreams, finally get him, and now I have to compete with a gorgeous, twenty-year-old supernatural sex fiend. ~Jaime Vegas

Kelley Armstrong

#3. Today was about chasing sun-rays, beach waves, & sunsets. All things beautiful that give you peace are worth chasing. Everything else isn't.

April Mae Monterrosa

#4. The horizon is out there somewhere and you keep chasing it, looking for it and working for it.

Bob Dole

#5. That's when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing its tail.

Ally Carter

#6. Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters-you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#7. upon all the doors of my defenses, chasing out my expectations of civilization and letting in the fear of anarchy and barbaric violence.

Dean Koontz

#8. The quickest way for anyone to reach the sun and the light of day is not to run west, chasing after the setting sun, but to head east, plunging into the darkness until one comes to the sunrise.

Gerald L. Sittser

#9. If you are always chasing, you are never feeling.

M.Q. Barber

#10. When everyone's focused on the conventional parts of war - doing infantry imbeds or chasing IEDs - you look at the thing that seems not that interesting to people, like the circumstances of logistics workers cooking the troops' food or cleaning their latrines.

Sarah Stillman

#11. War and hunting and chasing-that's all there is. That's life, Jenny-no one can escape it.

L.J.Smith

#12. A not unblack dog was chasing a not unsmall rabbit across a not ungreen field.

George Orwell

#13. We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.

Libba Bray

#14. Age does not matter if you're chasing your dream. As long as you work hard and smash those obstacles in your way, you'll see some progress.

B.A. Gabrielle

#15. Well, you know, it's been in the back of my mind. I just cannot get it out of it. I'm miserable chasing money. I'm 30 years old going through a mid-life crisis! I just couldn't shut (it) off.

Drew Waters

#16. 'Chasing Amy' was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did 'Big Daddy' and you're the girlfriend or you're the best friend. I wasn't getting the Nicole Kidman roles.

Joey Lauren Adams

#17. Running is never fun. Running is something that you do when there's a man chasing you with a knife.

Ardal O'Hanlon

#18. I find that I spend a tremendous amount of time chasing the praises of men rather than sitting with the praises of God. The former is something I attempt to catch, the latter catches me.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#19. Being a reporter and chasing down an assignment isn't an easy thing to do, especially when you're dealing with athletes that are so focused and trying to get their little game plan together to perform under adverse conditions ... it's tough.

Junior Seau

#20. The monsters. They go with the wind, chasing power. But they don't realize power doesn't shift. Power is resolute. It is the mountain, not the wind.

Pierce Brown

#21. Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. When a guy becomes a husband, he has a responsibility not to take as many chances as when he was single. It's called common sense. You'll depend on me not to get hurt or killed chasing an adrenaline rush.

Dee Henderson

#23. You can only give yourself a chance to find right things when you stop chasing wrong things.

Auliq Ice

#24. Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.

Talib Kweli

#25. Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.

Oren Peli

#26. If you don't love yourself, you'll always be chasing after people who don't love you either.

Mandy Hale

#27. If your team is constantly chasing its own tail and putting out fires instead of having time to sit down and experiment, learn new things, and apply them in a manner that makes them stick, you don't have enough time to learn.

Roy Osherove

#28. America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

Oriana Fallaci

#29. Sometimes I just want to be left alone and be a normal kid for, like, five minutes. That's tough when the paparazzi are chasing you.

Kendall Jenner

#30. You are a sorceress. In that moment, he was an innocent lad chasing after his first bit of skirt, desire and excitement and something far more base colliding deep within in a tumult of sensation.

Sarah MacLean

#31. I was always chasing Taylor, trying to keep up with him.

Blake Griffin

#32. How could someone possibly be that beautiful? She wondered for the hundred thousandth time. What higher power orchestrated such a perfect union of genes? Who decided that one single solitary soul deserved skin like that? It was so fundamentally unfair.(Chasing Harry Winston)

Lauren Weisberger

#33. Maybe there is no such thing as success - a final destination where you arrive once and for all. Maybe existence is a never-ending journey of peaks and valleys and forever chasing dreams.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#34. It's so pathetically easy to set big groups of voters off angrily chasing their own tails in response to media-manufactured nonsense,

Matt Taibbi

#35. A woman ran at our car screaming, a few of the shadow people chasing her, but before I could even touch the brake she must have changed her mind, because she had already turned into a shadow person herself. It's like, ugh, run from the shadow people or become one. Make up your mind, lady!

Joseph Fink

#36. Am I just chasing it because it's the hardest thing for me to get and I want to prove I can do it?

Tina Fey

#37. There's a guy, Anatole Broyard, of the N. Y. Times Book Review, who's still chasing Kerouac's corpse with a stiletto.

Allen Ginsberg

#38. Don't get seduced by the next shiny thing, because you'll get caught up chasing shiny things and that will keep you from addressing what you really need to accomplish.

Joe Tripodi

#39. There is only so much manpower and tax revenue that can be devoted to riot control, to social surveillance, to chasing fast youths down dark alleyways, to fire-hosing and pepper-spraying suspicious-looking gatherings.

Margaret Atwood

#40. Chasing your dreams is like running a race in the dark, you may quit disheartened, not knowing you were one step away from the finish line.

Prerna Kumar

#41. Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

Oliver Stone

#42. And tell me you love me, come back and haunt me oh and I rush to the start..running in circles, chasing tails, and coming back as we are. Nobody said it was easy, it's such a shame for us to part.. no-one ever said it would be so hard, I'm going back to the start

Coldplay

#43. Here was a guy who had taken much of the Silicon Valley ethic behind moving quickly and running organizations free of bureaucratic hierarchies and applied it to improving big, fantastic machines and chasing things that had the potential to be real breakthroughs we'd been missing.

Ashlee Vance

#44. My fabulous architect godfather and mentor told me once that striving toward a goal - or perfection - gives one focus and direction, which is a helluva lot better than chasing one's tail.

Catherine Stock

#45. I do write all the time about - you tell me what your dreams are. What are you chasing? It's not impossible. Name it.

Diana Nyad

#46. I'm more of a fisherman as opposed to a scientist perhaps and chasing the whale. But I've had some success.

Matt Walsh

#47. She dipped her head, chasing my eyes. "Find her. Go forth and find chocolate cake girl.

G.J. Walker-Smith

#48. This means that I don't have to run faster than the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal, I just have to run faster than whoever is with me when the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal starts chasing us.

Jim Benton

#49. I want to feel like I did when Christopher's arms held me away from the harms of the world. That was the last time I ever felt safe, and it was the day I almost died. I've been chasing that feeling for years.

Ginger Scott

#50. I've had enough of chasing after poetry; I believe that poetry lies at one's very door or perhaps in one's very bed. I'm still a man on the run, but I shall try to stop and wait.

Gerard De Nerval

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

Kylie Bisutti

#52. A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride that makes business an art.

Henry Latham Doherty

#53. Hard to think about chasing after someone when your own femur was sticking up out of your skin like a lollipop gushing blood

Jennifer Estep

#54. You'll understand, I'm sure that I'm chasing the merest sliver of color. It's my own fault. I want to grasp the intangible. It's terrible how the light runs out. Color, any color, lasts a second, sometimes 3 or 4 minutes at most ...

Claude Monet

#55. I think I do speak to all ages, but the emphasis is, unlike everybody else who is chasing the Millennials, I'm not chasing the Millennials.

Oprah Winfrey

#56. There is nothing that dictates behavior more than what we want others to think of us. When that happens, we become a reflection in our own mind of what we believe is reflected in the mind of another, neither of which has the slightest chance of being correct. Talk about dogs chasing tails.

Dee Hock

#57. I was dreaming about you."

"Was it a good dream?"

"Not really. I was chasing you and you wouldn't stop running from me."

~Brian/Myrna

Olivia Cunning

#58. I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.

Sienna Miller

#59. What are we all chasing? Nella wonders. To live, of course. To be unbound from the invisible ropes that Johannes spoke of in his study. Or to be happy in them, at least.

Jessie Burton

#60. Jeremy never gave any indication that he saw me as anything other than David's little sister. I've been chasing after Jeremy since about a month after my brother

Stacey Lewis

#61. Oh, it's Applekit!" Cinderpelt yelped in mock astonishment. "I thought for a heartbeat there was a giant burr chasing me. Never mind. When we stop, I'll help you untangle them.

Erin Hunter

#62. I admit, I'm suspicious of any career planning that involves chasing the next 'big thing,' just because it's so hard to predict what the next big thing is going to be a couple of years - or even six months - out.

Carrie Vaughn

#63. The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you - it's Don Quixote all over again. You're really chasing windmills.

Billy Corgan

#64. There's a paradox to most things in life. Acting is often dressing up in frocks and chasing your ego, but that doesn't mean you don't take it seriously.

Colin Firth

#65. Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it's called the PGA Tour.

Alex Hay

#66. We need more people in this world, energised by chasing a quest or a goal and that is what will energise the world.

Tony Curl

#67. I'm not some pure heart chasing after dreams. I know how difficult it is to live an ordinary life, having to overlook each other's shortcomings.

Inio Asano

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

Tammara Webber

#69. We are always chasing after things that other companies won't touch. That is a big secret to our success.

Norio Ohga

#70. My passion for storm chasing has always been driven by the beautiful and powerful storms displayed in the heartland each spring.

Tim Samaras

#71. Chasing someone who won't stop running is damned hard work. And you know what? I'm fucking exhausted, and I'm going home.

Laurie Boris

#72. I'll spend the rest of my life chasing that feeling I had on 'The Grey,' because I think we're all aware that, first and foremost, we were having an adventure, and we were also making this movie at the same time.

Joe Carnahan

#73. We are chasing happiness, and don't care about happiness of people who matter. Probably, we got our priorities right, but failed to set an order.
We created a chaos hoping the world would fall in place itself..

Crestless Wave

#74. For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they'll do in any scene you put them in.

Justin Zackham

#75. As the joke goes, you don't have to be faster than the wolf chasing you, just faster than everyone else running away.

Kim Harrison

#76. I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.

Yvette Nicole Brown

#77. When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.

Patrick Rothfuss

#78. Now, look you here, Sekundar," says I, but he came up straight like a little bantam and cut me off.
"Sir Alexander. if you please," says he icily, as though I'd never seen him with his breeches down, chasing after some big Afghan bint.

George MacDonald Fraser

#79. Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.

Simon Schama

#80. If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I'd wind up kicking myself.

Mike Weir

#81. Do you think she'll catch him before he gets to the hall?"
"My mom's spent her whole life chasing me around," Clary said. "She moves fast.

Cassandra Clare

#82. Here are a few things I've learned from Albert
1. Any food is fair game until it is actually swallowed by someone else.
2. Take a nap whenever you can.
3. Don't bark unless it's important.
4. Chasing one's tail is sometimes unavoidable.

Lisa Kleypas

#83. If we had tails, I think most of us would spend all day chasing them and trying to bite them off.

Stephen King

#84. Starlight
I will be chasing the starlight
Until the end of my life
I don't know if it's worth it anymore

Muse

#85. For some time, I thought being a producer would be a more fulfilling career than being an actor. But then I went to a conference in Cannes with 300 other producers, all desperately chasing finance for their projects ... and realized being an actor wasn't so bad after all!

William Kircher

#86. There's almost too much venture capital in India - there are issues with seed capital, but for venture capital, there's a lot money chasing deals here.

Ram Shriram

#87. Here's to adrenaline.
Here's to dramatic abandon of protocol.
Here's to treasured pain and purple rain.
Here's to chasing our souls,

burning across to sky.

Here's to drinking the ash as it falls,
and not asking why.

Virginia Petrucci

#88. Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!

Bram Stoker

#89. Even when I was a kid, Lo would put his hands on my cheeks and kiss me really quickly, and we'd burst into laughter afterwards. He'd end up chasing me through the fancy parties that our parents brought us to, trying to steal another.
I'd always let him catch me.

Krista Ritchie

#90. Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views

Nikolai Gogol

#91. Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.

Barry Ritholtz

#92. Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.

Clive James

#93. What happens is once you start to understand football, you realise that it's not just about the physical side of the game and chasing after a ball. It's a strategic sport which requires a lot of intelligence. It's a very mental game.

Shakira

#94. Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#95. I stumbled through the dark underbrush again crying out as I plunged through a thick spiderweb. My arms frantically brushed away the clinging web as irrational fear made me batshit-crazy for a moment. Scared of a damn spider when a bloodthirsty demon was chasing me down. Ridiculous.

Jenn Bennett

#96. As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.

Elbert Hubbard

#97. We're hiding in a tree with people chasing us. Do you really think this is an appropriate time to make suggestive comments?

Elisa Nader

#98. Until a man learns to deal with the fact that life is hard, he will spend his days chasing the wrong thing, using all his energies trying to make life comfortable, soft, nice, and that is no way for any man to spend his life.

John Eldredge

#99. He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.

P.G. Wodehouse

#100. They come out of nowhere, instantaneously materialize and just as quickly they break and vanish. Chasing after such fleeting mirages is a complete waste of time. That is what I choose to do with my life.

Miki Dora