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I'm looking for a monophysite priest to marry our maid.
~ Eugene Ionesco
Mme Martin: Quelle est la morale ? Le Pompier: C'est à vous de la trouver.
~ Eugene Ionesco
JEAN: I promise you'll recognize her by her smile. No-one smiles like her. She's on the tall side, I think, and she has long arms. But you'll recognize her too by the look of wonder on her face at finding herself here . . . She'll close her eyes a minute because the light's too strong. She'll ask you if I've been here if you've seen me, if anyone's waiting for her.
~ Eugene Ionesco
what she did during her lifetime but in the meaning of her life, the inspiration she gave to others, particularly women, to search for their own truth.
~ Andrew Morton
I realize I've been calling out to Dad just like he's been calling out to me. Telling him the same thing the whole time. Not words from my mouth through the air, but from my heart through the earth, so only the two of us could hear it. FIND ME.
~ Andrew Pyper
It was a ceremonial supper. For they were going to part in the morning. In the morning each of them was going to go their own way; in search of something they already had. But they did not know they had it, they could not even imagine it. They could not imagine where the roads they were meant to set off on the next morning would lead. Each of them travelling separately.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Of course it does, Jomes answered earnestly. Many of life's treasures remain hidden from us simply because we never search for them. Often we do not ask the proper questions that might lead us to the answer to all our challenges. We are so caught up in fear and regret, that hope seems a foolish endeavor. Proof of hope, however, is not only possible, it is an overlooked law of the universe.
~ Andy Andrews
If a person has any inclination toward the best that life has to offer, a constant and never-ending search for truth is a must. For while one can know the truth and never achieve the best, it is not possible to achieve the best without knowing the truth.
~ Andy Andrews
Most folks look for their car keys with more energy than they search for the wisdom that can change their lives.
~ Andy Andrews
When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.
~ Andy Andrews
Are you the person the person you're looking for is looking for?
~ Andy Stanley
There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.
~ Angela Carter
Amongst the monsters, I am well hidden; who looks for a leaf in a forest?
~ Angela Carter
Barney," she said, "would you like to help me look for a stupid giant banana?" Barney grinned. "Ooh, yes please," he said.
~ Angie Sage
And now, he thought with a tremor of excitement, now he must find the Trail.
~ Angie Sage
Nicko smiled and held out his hand. "Come on, Snorri," he said. "Let's go find her. She can't be far.
~ Angie Sage
Anxious to oblige the frightening new Steward and his sidekicks, many people gave them completely fictitious directions, and the search party was sent on a wild goose chase.
~ Angie Sage
No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.
~ Ann Druyan
Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.
~ Laurie Anderson
Scientists need the infrastructure for scientific search to aid their research, and they need it to offer relevancy and ways to separate the wheat from the chaff - the useful from the noise - via AI-enabled algorithms. With AI, such an infrastructure would be able to identify the exact study a scientist needs from the tens of thousands on a topic.
~ Oren Etzioni
I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go.
~ Layne Staley
Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort.
~ Julian Schnabel
I believe in the equal and opposite: If I exist, there is an equal and opposite version of me, and so however long I have to wait, and wherever he happens to be, we'll find it. Sometimes it's like, 'Jesus, where he at?'
~ Yvonne Orji
I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it's a search for how I can do things better, whether it's being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve.
~ Tom Cruise