Quotes About Search

For me, poetry is always a search for order.

I think we are still on the lookout for a left-arm spinner who can at least be closer to what Neetu David has been for women's cricket.

If I'm on a beach I'm the one to find the ammonite, or in a field I'll find the four-leaf clover.

I was a maverick. I went to five different colleges looking for I don't know quite what.

This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.

I searched so hard for a part that was so complex.

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.

It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle.

If you search for poverty, you'll find it, often in the family. Why? Because the family makes this great investment, from which we all benefit, but for which no-one helps. We have to point the spotlight on the family, and make political choices that sustain the family.

Reading 'Search Sweet Country' is like reading a dream, and indeed, at times, it feels like the magical landscapes of writers like the Nigerian Ben Okri or the Mozambican Mia Couto.

You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.

If you cannot find the truth where you are, Where do you expect to find it? —Master Dogen

He couldn't deny the hole he was in, but could the uppity young miss who kept his head spinning be the answer he was looking for?

quería una persona, quería que esa persona me quisiera y no pensaba que uno tenía que buscar, incesantemente, en otros cuerpos lo que ya había encontrado en uno solo (...)

Por lo general, nunca nos ha parecido suficiente ser lo que somos: falta algo y los deseos van en su busca.

The brutes, which have only their bodies to conserve, are continually occupied in seeking sources of nourishment; but men, of whom the chief part is the mind, ought to make the search after wisdom their principal care, for wisdom is the true nourishment of the mind; and I feel assured, moreover, that there are very many who would not fail in the search, if they would but hope for success in it, and knew the degree of their capabilities for it.

When the father is no longer an overbearing patriarch the son looks everywhere for the law - and finds no lawgiver.

That's the thing that you never have understood, Stella. You've run from your life. All your life that's been your MO. You've always wanted something more.

dived through the rain across the sidewalk, found

When you find yourself wanting love, know that it is like a lake looking for water.

Electra droned

Estás só. Ninguém o sabe. Cala e finge. Mas finge sem fingimento. Nada 'speres que em ti já não exista, Cada um consigo é triste. Tens sol se há sol, ramos se ramos buscas, Sorte se a sorte é dada.

My eyebrows went past my hairline. In fact, I have not located them since. I think they are hiding behind my ears.

Caught-heart, always present, never here, the outlandish and unsatisfying, while always promising satisfaction never-failed-or-fulfilled-quest.