Quotes About Searching

It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea-shops.

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

Come aboard easy," Thomas Hudson said to them. "Keep away from the stern. We got a Kraut dying on the stern that I want to have die easy. What did you find?" "Nothing," Henry said. "Absolutely nothing.

We are all looking for, but we find what we are looking for only by being looked for. We find miracle only when we stop looking for magic.

Hidden in your fears is the faith you are searching for. If you want to meet God, stand in your fears. Stand in your pain. Stand when everything inside you tells you to withdraw. Elijah ran from God and ran right into him.

That was the trouble with searching for the truth. It wasn't always pleasant. It wasn't always something you wanted to find.

M? tulbur? atât de tare, încât nu îmi voi mai g?si niciodat? locul.

If I could pray--and I'd stopped doing that nonsense long before the miracle of the refrigerator--I imagined praying, but I didn't know who to direct it to.

Are all stories about the Law of Surprise myths?' 'Yes. It's hard to call an accident destiny.' 'But you witchers do not stop searching?' 'No, we don't. But it's senseless. Nothing has any point.

I'd like to know what you want out of life." "I don't know what I want anymore." I toyed with the delicate lace on my pillowcase, wishing that lovely things didn't have to be so fragile.

I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.

However, he never understood why anyone would want to separate science, which is just a way of searching for what is true, from what we hold sacred, which are those truths that inspire love and awe.

Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and divine; and every religion is the answer from the Universal Spirit to the seeking spirits of men that came forth from Him.

Whenever I write a part, I think there's this person somewhere in the world that this part is specifically for, and all I have to do is go searching to find that particular individual.

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

Being in L.A., it was really hard to find a country writer and producer. I eventually - years of searching - found this guy, Dan Franklin. He's an incredible musician and producer. We write so well together... It's been a really cool experience.

The songs I write are about searching, and they're ambiguous - always to be understood in different ways.

I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.

There's something very bizarre about having a father who has disappeared. It's very hard to articulate.

Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.

I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's a passion.

I've never looked for women. When I was a teenager, perhaps.

As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers.