Quotes About Search

Listening to Dad's guitar, halting yet lovely in the search for phrasing, I thought: Fair is whatever God wants to do.

We all dream of finding but what's wrong with looking? When the sun rises we'll know what to do.

It thus becomes intelligible that modern Europe, once it had started out—in order to avoid the quarrel over the right faith—in search of a neutral ground as such, finally arrived at faith in technology.

The search for truth and the desire for beauty were the twin ideals he strove to attain. The keenness of this pursuit saved him from the blemish of egoism which aloofness from his surroundings would otherwise have forced upon him.

Scully liked neatness and order. This office was her notion of a nightmare. She had no idea how Mulder ever found anything he wanted. But he always seemed to.

My bookstore obsession grew to the point where I'd search for new shops during family trips, as though that were the reason for our travel.

If there's no meaning in it, said the King, that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know, he went on [...]; I seem to see some meaning in them, after all.

By-the-bye, what became of the baby?

Si no tiene sentido", dijo el Rey, "eso nos salva de un montón de problemas, sabes, porque no hace falta que le busquemos uno.

The great question certainly was, what? Alice looked all round her at the flowers and the blades of grass, but she did not see anything that looked like the right thing to eat or drink under the circumstances. There was a large mushroom growing near her, about the same height as herself; and when she had looked under it, and on both sides of it, and behind it, it occurred to her that she might as well look and see what was on the top of it.

Où est ma chatte?

I fear I will always have to chase the things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for.

I don't know who I am," I say. "No one does. Everyone spends their lives figuring that out, even people who've never been kidnapped.

Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

Where is God? Where can I find him?" we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I cannot gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others.

A person desperately searching for love," Merlin said, "reminds me of a fish desperately searching for water.

Why should the search for happiness be only or essentially material and mental? Aren't there untold riches too in the moral, the sentimental and the spiritual realms?

The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world.

Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality.

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

Tony's [Blair] convinced I'm going to find God. I do have spiritual moments, but I don't think it's God.

I grew up Catholic. I'm not religious now but I would say that I'm a very spiritual person and you're always in search of answers.