Quotes About Search

The search for truth is eternal and artists some of its most ardent seekers.

You find what you look for, my boy." "What is that supposed to mean?" "Exactly what it sounds like.

The study of human institutions is always a search for the most tolerable imperfections.

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?

Until the 1980s English Customs officers were instructed to treat any traveller carrying condoms in their luggage as a suspect person, and to search for drugs or other unlawful items.)

Why can't you summon a command line and search your real-world home for 'Honda car keys,' and specify rooms in your house to search instead of folders or paths in your computer's home directory? It's a crippling design flaw in the real-world interface.

A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. Such books were for him rare and, as he aged, rarer. Still he searched, one more Ithaca for which he was forever bound.

I heard the blood in Mr. Gruffydd voice and searched libraries of words in hot seconds of emptiness only to give him comfort.

No, by God, he had no intention of going on like a blind man, plodding down a path of brainless, fruitless existence until old age or accident took him. Either he found the answer or he ditched the whole mess, life included.

But severed from yourself in the press of a crowd, you head back instinctively to the most recent landmark, hoping the lost other will hit on the same idea.

The inevitable result of any search for authenticity is that you always end up with something completely modern in intent, since the purpose of the performance lies in the present, not the past.

God can most easily be lost by being thought found.

Contemplation is waiting patiently for the gaps to be filled in, and it does not insist on quick closure or easy answers. It never rushes to judgment, and in fact avoids making quick judgments because judgments have more to do with egoic, personal control than with a loving search for truth.

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.

Now, come over here so I can pat you down. But you don't have- Percy stopped. Uh, sure. He stood next to the armless statue. Terminus conducted a rigorous mental pat down. You seem to be clean, Terminus decided. Do you have anything to declare? Yes, Percy said. I declare that this is stupid.

You will not find love where you wish or where you hope.

But it's your Oracle, I protested. Can't you tell us what the prophecy means? Apollo sighed. You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear through the search.

I'll distract them," Carter said. "You search. The Trophy room is through there." "Carter!" But the fool ran off to protect me. I hate when he does that.

My heroes, our time together is short," Juno said. "I am grateful that you called upon me. I have spent weeks in a state of pain and confusion...my Greek and Roman natures warring against each other. Worse, I've been forced to hide from Jupiter, who searches for me in his misguided wrath, believing that I caused this war with Gaea." "Gee," Annabeth said, "why would he think that?

I need to find Meg. I wiped my mouth with a shaky hand. What would the myrmekes do with her? I don't know! Tell me or I will not complete your customer service survey.

Where's Jason?

Maybe it's a quest for tartar sauce," Percy said. "Something low-stakes and delicious.

Where's the dam water fountain I'm thirsty?