Quotes About Search

Let me guess," Sloane said, though his recollection of criminal law was fuzzy. "Kozlowski ruled there was no probable cause for the initial decision to search the trunk of the car.

twenty years, the odds of finding Sarah

It's . . . it's in the apartment.

A purpose, I have learned, is rarely found, but revealed. Only when I do not search does the purpose become clear.

I say we have Del and Faz ask around, find out if any cats have gone missing in the kid's neighborhood or if he trolls the Internet

Only when I do not search does the purpose become clear.

The only place people find fulfillment is within themselves. And too often, that's the last place they look.

Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.

to be found?' 'You're suggesting

Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves. ... Lines give birth to lines. Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing. ... Make a drawing flow, stopping sometimes, and going on. ... Search for the simple constructive forces, line the lines of a suspension bridge. Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out. ... Have purpose in the places where lines stop.

Sometimes the greatest fear and pain come from a sense of meaninglessness in life. Meaning is a choice, not a search, remember? A sense of meaninglessness is really, therefore, a call to let in higher awareness and truth.

Finding a lover is a false start. Fibrillations of the pitipat heart. The search for truth is a bum steer. It's much more likely we're looking for beer. What can I possibly rhyme with mud? Is "pod" close enough? Or "good"? It is the sentence that (sometimes) thinks. All the rest is twats and dinks.

I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Happiness? No, it's not there for me.

To retreat behind the notion that the audience simply wants to dump its troubles at the door and escape reality is a cowardly abandonment of the artist's responsibility. Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality, our best effort to make sense out of the anarchy of existence.

in truth there's only one story. In essence we have told one another the same tale, one way or another, since the dawn of humanity, and that story could be usefully called the Quest. All stories take the form of a Quest.

I cannot live and at the same time despise my life. I must find myself a life, a new life, even if all of life consists only of an endless search for life.

I must find myself a life, a new life, even if all of life consists only of an endless search for life. What is respect compared to this other thing: being happy and having satisfied the heart's pride. Even being unhappy is better than being respected. I am unhappy despite the respect I enjoy; and so in my own eyes I don't deserve this respect; for I consider only happiness worthy of respect. Therefore I must try whether it is possible to be happy without insisting on respect.

You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.

Before she continued her search she sat in his revolving desk chair, and wept for the passing of time, and the necessary death of the well-loved, wise old man.

Who is she? That is what you must discover, Ramezay, and you must find your answer in psychological truth, not in objective truth. You will not find out quickly, I am sure. And while you are searching, get on with your own life and accept the possibility that it may be purchased at the price of hers and that this may be God's plan for you and her.

A tiny breeze searched his face as if discovering who and what he was.

Only those who seek shall find." I