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The grinding search for money can crush the spirit out of you unless you're made of steel.
~ Paul Auster
In the deepest, most unalterable sense, he was an invisible man. Invisible to others, and most likely invisible to himself as well. If, while he was alive, I kept looking for him, kept trying to find the father who was not there, now that he is dead I still feel as though I must go on looking for him. Death has not changed anything. The only difference is that I have run out of time.
~ Paul Auster
Estaba buscando un sitio tranquilo para morir
~ Paul Auster
For those looking to find the thing that you've lost, the decision of where to place your handbill is one of the toughest you'll ever make in life.
~ Paul Beatty
What is the key to the Short Path? It is threefold. First, stop searching for the Overself since it follows you wherever you go. Second, believe in its Presence, with and within you. Third, keep on trying to understand its truth until you can abandon further thoughts about it. You cannot acquire what is already here. So drop the ego's false idea and affirm the real one.
~ Paul Brunton
The search for ground lights is not enough. There is the axis to be followed and '—dot dot dot—' forgotten. You must above all find lightness, buoyancy, the permanent defiance of gravity.
~ Paul Celan
since I got here I've had a bit of a look for where the music's coming from, and I can't find it. And I have the nose of a bloodhound. In my pocket.
~ Unknown
It's important to realize that you can search for life in only two places. Either you have found life to the fullest vertically or you are shopping for it horizontally.
~ Paul David Tripp
from birth we are all philosophers, we are all theologians, and we all function like archeologists, digging through the mound of our existence to make sense of it all.
~ Paul David Tripp
I don't know if you've thought about this, but there are only two places to look for hope. You can search for it horizontally, thinking that something in creation will give you the security, peace, and inner sense of well-being that you seek, or you can seek it vertically, entrusting your life into the loving hands of your Creator
~ Paul David Tripp
The transcendent glory that every human being quests for, whether he knows it or not, is not a thing; it is a person, and his name is God.
~ Paul David Tripp
When it comes to weighing up evidence, we like to think of ourselves as deliberative and detached. We think carefully about the arguments and form an opinion or a belief in a dispassionate way. In reality, though, our beliefs often come first and then we search for evidence to support them. When the evidence supports a belief, we are proud of being right in the first place.
~ Unknown
They searched for unity almost in unison. (Einstein and Schrodinger)
~ Unknown
Science appears to be the human enterprise that is most systematic in its attempt to eliminate error in the search for knowledge.
~ Unknown
The amount of footprints underneath indicates how far they are too, and the closer you get to the Pokémon, the number of footprints will go down.
~ Unknown
I bet if big fat Henry hadn't been king, he wouldn't have had so many wives. He was a wicked man, but sad too, I suppose. How awful, to never find someone you could truly love, so you are always looking for her your whole life. And cutting people's heads off when they turn out to be the wrong one.
~ Paul Kearney
We weren't sure we located the Gabriella until this spring." Barrett tapped a black metal box resting
~ Unknown
Unanimous. All nine justices. Cops need a warrant to search your cell phone." "Surprising outcome, don't you think?" "Not at all. The justices don't have bags of cocaine in the trunks of their cars, so the drug seizure cases usually go the government's way. But every justice has a cell phone.
~ Paul Levine
Cited Riley versus California." "That's my girl! Cocounsel, I mean. Jeez, that case came down just in time! Unanimous. All nine justices. Cops need a warrant to search your cell phone.
~ Paul Levine
I would say that an understanding of man's intrinsic needs, and of the necessity to search for a climate in which those needs could be realized, is fundamental to the education of the designer.
~ Paul Rand
History may always become a kind of evasion of the search for truth. It is always possible to hide behind history so as to affirm nothing on one's own account...Ultimately, the skeptical historian no longer searches for anything, and the dogmatic philosopher has nothing but enemies or students but never friends.
~ Paul Ricoeur
Does everybody always have to be on the prowl for love?
~ Unknown
In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware
~ Paul Tillich
The hairs on her chin were like little metal filings; they appeared to vibrate like antennae in search of prey.
~ Paula Fox