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Quotes About Search

Something comes out of every voyage," said the other man sharply. "Out of every bloody fruitless endeavour. All the striving after the unknowable. The unattainable, the search for Athor, the creative force, rolled into a circle. You with your quest; I with my care-ridden Emperor;
~ Dorothy Dunnett
This and your music … you have happiness. Why cannot I find it?' 'Because you do not look in the right places,' said Kiaya.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Together with this outrage we may take the mutilation of the novel called The Search at the exact point where the author upholds, or appears for the moment to uphold, the doctrine that loyalty to the abstract truth must override all personal considerations;
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
I just lost all my strength of purpose - maybe the maid will find it on the floor in the morning.
~ Dorothy Parker
He pulled himself up short. He believed in a door. He must find that door. The door was the way to . . . to . . . The Door was The Way. Good. Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to. Brusquely
~ Douglas Adams
like a hunter stalking his prey.
~ Douglas Adams
The word bulldozer wandered through his mind for a moment in search of something to connect with.
~ Douglas Adams
Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn't be able to look for them." "What, are you crazy?" "It's a possibility I haven't ruled out yet," said Zaphod quietly. "I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.
~ Douglas Adams
He pressed the entry for the relevant page. The screen flashed and swirled and resolved into a page of print. Arthur stared at it. "It doesn't have an entry!" he burst out.
~ Douglas Adams
Damn it and blast it, he thought, and felt the need of some guidance and advice. He consulted the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He looked up guidance and it said See under ADVICE. He looked up advice and it said see under GUIDANCE.
~ Douglas Adams
The numbers, he said, are awful. He resumed his search. Arthur nodded wisely to himself. After a while he realized that this wasn't getting him anywhere and decided that he would say what? after all. In space travel, repeated Slartibartfast, all the numbers are awful.
~ Douglas Adams
Abe: Wise hermit cast adrift on asteroid for thousands of years; has developed odd code languages for everyday actions; lonely but not bitter; his heart is cryogenically frozen, and he must search the universe pursuing the Thawer.
~ Douglas Coupland
Encuentre al hombre que hizo esto," she said
~ Douglas Preston
Crazy damn job, looking for dead bodies.
~ Douglas Preston
We don't just look for dead bodies. That day, we were actually looking for a cache of heroin somebody'd thrown off a bridge.
~ Douglas Preston
The most recent search for Morde's lost city took place in 2009. A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist for the Wall Street Journal, Christopher S. Stewart, undertook an arduous journey into the heart of Mosquitia in an attempt to retrace Morde's route.
~ Douglas Preston
Krugle-like search engine
~ Douglas Preston
One of the most common of these traps is a sense of meaninglessness. From our new view of reality, we are free from the egoic desire to find meaning. We see that the ego's desire to find meaning in life is actually a substitute for the perception of being life itself. The search for meaning in life is a surrogate for the knowledge that we are life. Only someone who is disconnected from life itself will seek meaning. Only someone disconnected from life will look for purpose.
~ Adyashanti
Do not seek after what you yearn for; seek the source of the yearning itself.
~ Adyashanti
searched her bag for the ticket that would enable her to
~ Agatha Christie
It is looking for the needle in the haystack, I grant—but in the haystack there is a needle—of that I am convinced!
~ Agatha Christie
Oamenii cauta fericirea cum cauta sangele inima.
~ Aglaja Veteranyi
Mama o sa gaseasca pe cineva care o sa scrie o carte despre povestea vietii noastre. O sa se numeasca USA DE FIER SI USA SPRE LIBERTATE.
~ Aglaja Veteranyi
And some look through a broken spyglass onto the horizon in search for gold
~ Ahmed Korayem