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Quotes About Search

When I went to San Francisco in that cold late spring of 1967, I did not even know what I wanted to find out, and so I just stayed around a while and made a few friends.
~ Joan Didion
The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth.
~ Charles H. Townes
Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.
~ Thomas Harris
I had fled that place in hopes of finding another that had been founded upon different principles and operated under a different order. But there was no such place, or none that I could find. It seemed the only course of action left to me was to make an end of it.
~ Thomas Ligotti
There is nothing more futile than to consciously look for something to save you.
~ Thomas Ligotti
Tanr?'n?n ne oldu?unu bilmek istiyor muyuz? Bunu herhangi bir insan?n yazabilece?i yaz?l? kitaplarda arama, ama Yarat?l??'?n imzas?nda ara.
~ Thomas Paine
do we want to know what God is? Search not the book called the scripture, which any human hand might make, but the scripture called the Creation.
~ Thomas Paine
In fine, do we want to know what God is? Search not the book called the Scripture, which any human hand might make, but the Scripture called the Creation.
~ Thomas Paine
Some people are born where they belong, and some have to find their way there
~ Thomas Perry
I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found.
~ Thomas Wolfe
I wish I knew what it was like, to find a place where I belong.
~ Three Days Grace
Emily didn't search to belong, she searched to be lost
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
The minute Jacob learned his father's life had become what, in relation to him it had been all along, an apparition, is when I saw desire begins to fade from his eyes. Jacob searched harder than ever for meaning in his being. His body had been orphaned long before, but this time, Thomas Doorley had taken his soul. Because a soul never truly loses hope until hope has turned to ashes, or has been buried six feet underground.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
A search. We're all searching for something to fill up what I like to call that big, God-shaped hole in our souls. Some people use alcohol, or sex, or their children, or food, or money, or music, or heroin. A lot of people even use the concept of God itself. I could go on and on. I used to know a girl who used shoes. She had over two hundred pairs. But it's all the same thing, really. People, for some stupid reason, think they can escape their sorrows.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support.
~ Tiger Woods
The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.
~ Tim Berners Lee
Science is described as a search for… on the basis of the available scientifice evidence, we currently believe. Changing your mind in the light of new ideas or better evidence constitutes cientific progress. … on the basis of the current evidence this is what we believe to be true.
~ Tim Birkhead
Like countless scholars who have made this quest before us, we have found that looking for an historical Jesus is futile.
~ Tim Freke
It's like being involved in a detective story, looking for that thing that nobody else has found.
~ Erik Larson
I've always been a bit of a lost soul, and I think that goes back to me being adopted and not knowing my roots.
~ Finn Jones
Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.
~ James Gleick
There are not many things that can happen much worse to a family than having a member taken and not knowing what happened to them.
~ Joan Allen
When I learned a little bit about du Pont and a little bit about Mark Schultz, I was attracted to the notion that these incredibly different people found each other and seemed, for a moment, to be the answer that each was looking for.
~ Bennett Miller
Nowadays, if somebody in America is feeling alone and wants to find a coming out story, they just search 'coming out,' and they'll find millions of first-person examples of people telling their story.
~ Tyler Oakley