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Quotes About Search

There's a joke in economics about the drunk who loses his keys in the street but only looks for them under the lightposts. When asked why, he says, 'because that's where the light is.' That's the problem with the deficit.
~ Christina Romer
I guess, in a very real sense, I'm a Gnostic. I had been looking all my life for some great mystery... I think somewhere deep in my mind is the notion that if I could learn just the right thing, I would be saved.
~ Whitfield Diffie
Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.
~ Vaclav Havel
My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to do with an idea that I'm searching for, or searching to express.
~ Leonard Nimoy
For me, it's nice to have a character who can never find love and have that be the running theme, but I think when you open the door to a story line about relationships, you open the door to another realm of comedy.
~ Jordana Spiro
man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it. —GEORGE MOORE
~ Robyn Carr
By the time I packed up, I wondered if I'd really been looking for Cassidy after all, or if I'd been hoping to find myself.
~ Robyn Schneider
This is the way it was while I was waiting for your eyes to find me.
~ Rod McKuen
Always I glance both ways. Why chance missing love wherever she or he may lurk?
~ Rod McKuen
I went back to look for you. Not understanding the language of hello, I thought I'd speak it just the same.
~ Rod McKuen
Once when I was lost I asked a policeman to help me find my parents. I asked him, "Do you think we'll ever find them?" He said, "I don't know, kid. There are so many places they can hide."
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Sounds as if the intruder was looking for something, Norma.
~ Roger Silverwood
I miss women," he went on. "I miss that kind of intimacy. But I think whatever people do; they do in search of pleasure. Or trying to get rid of pain or fear, which is the same thing, basically. Everything, everything is really about that. Everything is about bringing your mind to a place where it's at peace
~ Roland Merullo
Isn't the spiritual search, at its essence, a movement toward objectivity?
~ Roland Merullo
Lying in bed with his eyes open, he searched the shadows around him, trying to find some steadying, reassuring objects. But the reality was at least as threatening as the nightmares. Having swallowed up all of the familiar shapes of the furniture, the darkness took on the aspect of some unearthly challenge: within this nothingness something monstrous and unknown was surely being spawned. The room had become a kind of breeding ground for monsters.
~ Roland Topor
ces bouquets de fleurs qui partent à la recherche d'un cÅ"ur et ne trouvent qu'un vase.
~ Romain Gary
elle avait des yeux où il faisait si bon vivre que je n'ai jamais su où aller depuis.
~ Romain Gary
Madame Rosa dit que la vie peut être très belle mais qu'on ne l'a pas encore vraiment trouvée et qu'en attendant il faut bien vivre.
~ Romain Gary
I fear it is my lot, to bide my days in hunchbacked thought, to find what I forgot.
~ Roman Payne
He had been searching for it his entire life. He had devoted himself to poetry to find it. Now, in the middle of his life, he found it. It was in the face of the love of his life, his daughter. She who had never blushed before, now blushed. And in that blushing, he knew, was the existence of God. That was the day her father learned what God was. God was pure beauty, God was his daughter's face when she blushed.
~ Roman Payne
pero en la que se encuentra la
~ Romano Guardini
Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
~ Rosalia de Castro
Missing only the prefix. The ex.
~ Louise Erdrich
Animikiins used all his skills. But the earth is good at swallowing up all traces of people. At last, in spite Animikiins's great powers, they lost his trail.
~ Louise Erdrich