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Quotes About Search

confess I went because I had hopes that there remained some spark of the man I'd once known. But I never really found it.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Here's something I still can't get over. Amazes and thrills me every time. I'm sitting here and want a certain book. So I search, click, and then I have the book. Every time, my heart does a little leap of joy. What a beautiful world the market is making.
~ Jeffrey Tucker
I know you will find what's missing.
~ Jen Calonita
i can always find you
~ Jennifer Ashley
It has an L on it. L for love. See? It's the key to the universe, Dad. You said you were looking for it. You told Mom you were. I found it for you so you don't have to look anymore. So you can come home at night.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
There has to be a reason things are the way they are here. If only I can find out what it is.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
The sky had no answer for her.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
He felt the mystery of his own unconscious like a whale looming invisibly beneath a tiny swimmer. If he couldn't search or retrieve or view his own past, then it wasn't really his. It was lost.
~ Jennifer Egan
He had to find her. But where? Ted deliberated this question while downing three espressos in the hotel lobby, letting the caffeine and vodka greet in his brain like fighting fish. Where to look for Sasha in this sprawling, malodorous city? He reviewed the strategies he'd already failed to execute: approaching dissolute kids at the train station and youth hostels, but no, no. He'd waited too long for any of that." (p. 224)
~ Jennifer Egan
Everyone we've lost, we'll find. Or they'll find us.
~ Jennifer Egan
Jameson Winchester Hawthorne is hungry. He's been looking for something. He's been looking for it since the day he was born.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
I don't need your permission to search your locker." The headmaster's tone drew my attention back in his direction. This, I inferred from the rise in volume, was supposed to be the voice of authority. If you didn't need my permission, I thought, then why did you ask for it?
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
I wondered and I prayed and I Googled.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Between the fire and a storm that night," Alisa said, once she'd recovered, "Toby's remains were never definitively found.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Most people thought that training animals was about obedience and control. But in reality, the center of any search and rescue training program was play. For the dog, searching was a game. Animals who had a strong play drive would keep playing indefinitely—through ice and snow, over hard terrain, for hours upon hours—until the game was won. Until they found their target.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
It's not the things you can't find that haunt you. It's when you choose not to look.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Let me ask you something. Do you think there's such a thing as a perfect day?" "What?" "A perfect day. Start to finish. When nothing terrible or sad or ordinary happens. Do you think it's possible?" "I don't know." "Have you ever had one?" "No." "I've never had one either, but I'm looking for it.
~ Jennifer Niven
Finch: Theodore Finch, in search of the Great Manifesto Violet: I don't know that what means Finch: It means 'the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation - in short, to remain a memory.
~ Jennifer Niven
Idols aren't just stone statues. No, idols are the thoughts, desires, longings, and expectations that we worship in the place of the true God. Idols cause us to ignore the true God in search of what we think we need. Covenantal Gods
~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
Quand mes mains te prennent, elles ne tiennent qu'un rien de ton être... Où es-tu donc tout entière, pour que j'aille t'y chercher ?
~ Émile Zola
You are one of those things that are ever found when least wanted, and when you are wanted, never!
~ Emily Bronte
I lost a world the other day. Has anybody found? You'll know it by the rows of stars around it's forehead bound. A rich man might not notice it; yet to my frugal eye of more esteem than ducats. Oh! Find it, sir, for me!
~ Emily Dickinson
Solo busco una vida que dejé, ¿sigue ahí todavía?»
~ Emily Dickinson
Dove tu sei, quella è casa.
~ Emily Dickinson