Quotes About Search

Friedell caught the essential truth about people prone to catch-all theories: they aren't in search of the truth, they're in search of themselves.

De grands pans du monde ressemblaient à une mélodie que l'on croit ne pouvoir oublier, hors de laquelle cependant l'on glisse, désormais contraint de la rechercher sans relâche et douloureusement .

Not long after that the large search party of 1959 arrived from Japan to look for us. "The Americans seem to be starting another one of their fake rescue operations," I said. "What a nuisance!" growled Kozuka. "Let's move somewhere where it's quiet.

Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda was officially declared dead in December, 1959. At the time it was thought that he and his comrade Kinshichi Kozuka had died of wounds sustained five years earlier in a skirmish with Philippine troops. A six-month search organized by the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare in early 1959 had uncovered no trace of the two men.

Then, in 1972 Onoda and Kozuka surfaced, and Kozuka was killed in an encounter with Philippine police. In the following half year, three Japanese search parties attempted to persuade Onoda to come out of the jungle, but the only response they received was a thank-you note for some gifts they left. This at least established that he was alive. Owing partly to his reluctance to appear, he became something of a legend in Japan.

Wir sind nichts; was wir suchen ist alles. (We are nothing; what we search for is everything.)

Looking for a weird old guy who could grant wishes was pathetic. It was sad and stupid.

Have you discovered aught of my erstwhile murderer?

Which would be at about shoulder height. Apparently, in Pada's search for her path, the Saints needed to be sure that they had nothing important to say that lay toward either the ceiling or the floor, or she would render them mute.

He could find hatred in his heart for her, too, if he went looking for it. The secret of a happy marriage was not to go looking for it.

Frances longed to Google it. How was she going to cope for ten days without instant answers to idle questions?

We should Google it. Don't sneer at me.

I search, but never find. Hurt, but never cry. I work and forever tired.

My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff.

What's the point of all this? Of all what? she asked. Of all this life .

What's the point of anyone's search for answers? The truth you find will always be replaced by someone else's. Someday even Darwin will look like a quaint Ptolemy who saw what he could see but no more.

Always in her mind there had been the belief that somewhere on earth there was a better way to live, and that she would find it.

What's the point of anyone's search for answers? The truth you find will always be replaced by someone else's.

Net neutrality would require that every search engine produce an equal number of results that satisfy every disagreement about [every] issue.... Just think of it as Fairness Doctrine for the Internet. I'm not making this up.

I believe that the Supreme Court and the advocates of that decision may search in vain for the place in the Constitution where the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed.

Lord, I give You permission to search my heart and mind. Please show me every day what it feels like to be my husband.

I want to find something I've wanted all along Somewhere I belong

While death and darkness girdle me I grope for immortality.

I am in flight from my story every day, and it dogs me like a faithful stray.