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Quotes About Search

Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end.
~ Annie Dillard
I have searched for my mother's love in all the corners of the world.
~ Annie Ernaux
She follows the putrid cloud downstairs and
~ Ann-Marie MacDonald
For me it is most often an immediate reaction; the more I look for something, the less chance there is for finding anything of value.
~ Ansel Adams
They two men cut the door, and took the box, and opened it, — and when they'd opened it, they didn't get the swag. Where was the swag?
~ Anthony Trollope
Men very skilful in unravelling such mysteries were sent to Paris, and the police of that capital entered upon the search with most praiseworthy zeal. But the number of life-preservers which had been sold altogether baffled them. It seemed that nothing was so common as that gentlemen should walk about with bludgeons in their pockets covered with leathern thongs.
~ Anthony Trollope
The race is on to find Cheyenne Wilder and to rescue her alive.
~ April Henry
Help me find Vuitton." The priest scolded her with a glance. "You've lost him again?" "Of course not," said Prue. "He's around here somewhere. Vuiiiton! Here, boy!Vuiiiiiton! …
~ Armistead Maupin
The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge, and the creation of beauty. This is beyond argument, the only point of debate is which comes first.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
With no further clues, it might take the station Computer quite a while—perhaps as much as ten minutes—to locate the line in the whole body of English literature.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Hilvar knew better than this; he had sensed it instinctively from the first. Alvin was an explorer, and all explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest. What
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Some believe what separates men from animals is our ability to reason. Others say it's language or romantic love, or opposable thumbs. Living here in this lost world, I've come to believe it is more than our biology. What truly makes us human is our unending search, our abiding desire for immortality.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. "Eglow, Eglonitz—here we are, Egria. It
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
What makes you think anyone has a roadmap? You think I know where I'm going? That I ever have? We're all mice stumbling in our mazes, trying to find our cheese. Hoping the levers we're pulling are the right ones and not the ones designed to shock us.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Ich werde so lange im Haus herumlaufen, bis ich in zehn von neun Fällen den Ort finde, wo es was zu essen gibt.
~ Shirley Jackson
But it was a lost cause. Like trying to find yesterday. You get the picture?
~ Sholem Aleichem
Fate will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.
~ Sidney Sheldon
So long as we imagine it is we who have to look for God, we must often lose heart. But it is the other way about – He is looking for us.
~ Simon Tugwell
Searching leads to error. It is this way for every kind of thing that is truly good. We must not do anything but wait expectantly for the good and depart from evil. In the reversals that constitute the human condition, authentic virtue in every domain is negative (non-active), at least in appearance. But this expectant waiting for the good and for truth is more intense that any search.
~ Simone Weil
We reach. We gasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or a worse than a shadow - misery.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Paris finally woke me up from the poison apple spell that lifetimes of self-rejection had put me under, causing me to desperately search for authentic love
~ Sonia Choquette
I'll find you. I will. We'll be together again.
~ Sophie Jordan
Have you ever shaken up a compass and seen the arrow whirling around, trying to find a place to settle?" says Alex abruptly. "Well, that's my brain. It's all over the place.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Have you ever shaken up a compass and see the arrow whirling around, trying to find a place to settle? Well, that's my brain. It's all over the place.
~ Sophie Kinsella