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Quotes About Searching

He stopped suddenly, put his hand to his throat for a few minutes with his features fixed in a kind of stupid, hopeless searching look. Then his face brightened a little in spite of the anguish which he had doubtlessly forgotten.
~ Georges Bernanos
It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that you discover, without surprise, that something is wrong, that, without mincing words, you don't know how to live, that you will never know." -from "A Man Asleep
~ Georges Perec
As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.
~ Joan Baez
A blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat which isn't there.
~ Lord Bowen
I am always looking for meaningful one-night stands.
~ Dudley Moore
When you find nothing," Morris said, "it means you're eliminating what surrounds the something." "Is that a Zen thing?" Eve questioned. "If not, it should be.
~ J.D. Robb
You are like a stick insect, Michaels, whose sole defence against a universe of predators is its bizarre shape. You are like a stick insect that has landed, God knows how, in the middle of a great wide flat bare concrete plain. You raise your slow fragile stick-legs one at a time, you inch about looking for something to merge with, and there is nothing. Why did you ever leave the bushes, Michaels?
~ J.M. Coetzee
I'm going to stay here and see if he comes back, Wrath said as the double doors opened and V strode in. I want the rest of you out searching for him in the city, but before you go, first let's get an update from our very own Katie Couric. He nodded at Vishous. Katie? V's glare was the ocular version of a fully extended middle finger
~ J.R. Ward
You don't have to be searching to find what you need.
~ J.R. Ward
I'm going to stay here and see if he comes back," Wrath said as the double doors opened and V strode in. "I want the rest of you out searching for him in the city, but before you go, first let's get an update from our very own Katie Couric." He nodded at Vishous. "Katie?" V's glare was the ocular version of a fully extended middle finger, but he got on with it. -Wrath & V
~ J.R. Ward
It's because you're looking in the wrong place," Lassiter said. "You can go now." "Every time you say that, it brings a tear to my eye." "Funny, mine too." -Lassiter & Tohr
~ J.R. Ward
Every night I still ask the Lord, Why? and havent heard a decent answer yet
~ Jack Kerouac
I don't know
~ Jack Kerouac
Tutte le notti continuo a chiedere al Signore, Perché? E ancora non ho avuto una risposta decente.
~ Jack Kerouac
Pauline hiçbir zaman anlamayacakt? beni, çünkü ilgimi çeken çok fazla ÅŸey vard? ve geberinceye kadar birinden ötekine koÅŸacakt?m. Kendi kafa kar???kl???mdan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey sunamazd?m kimseye.
~ Jack Kerouac
Despite the metadata attached to each tweet, and despite trails of retweets and 'favorite' tweets, the Twitter corpus lacks the latticework of hyperlinks that makes Google's algorithms so potent. Twitter's famous hashtags - #sandyhook or #fiscalcliff or #girls - are the crudest sort of signposts, not much help for smart searching.
~ James Gleick
Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's a face that a certain type of woman might want to fool because, in its intensely old-fashioned kindness, the face says, I love you. Fool me.
~ Wesley Morris
If you search and search and stop searching, then ultimately you'll find what you need. It is the experience of living.
~ Marion Cotillard
War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing.
~ Art Buchwald
We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.
~ Plato
At age fourteen I was asking questions. When the answers failed to satisfy me, I searched elsewhere for different answers and found wisdom in atheism. And I am far from alone in that experience.
~ Hemant Mehta
Mike Look, we're gonna spend half the night driving around the Hills looking for this one party and you're going to say it sucks and we're all gonna leave and then we're gonna go look for this other party. But all the parties and all the bars, they all suck. I spend half the night talking to some girl who's looking around the room to see if there's somebody else who's more important she should be talking to. And it's like I'm supposed to be all happy 'cause she's wearing a backpack, you know
~ Swingers
Aku lari bagai musang lari dalam bayang-bayang rimba, gila dengan wanginya sendiri. Malamnya malam pertengahan Mei dan anginnya angin selatan. Aku kehilangan jala dan aku pun mengelana. Aku mencari apa yang tak bisa kudapat, aku mendapat apa yang tak kucari.
~ Tagore, Rabindranath
A theologian is a blind man in a dark room searching for a black cat that isn't there -- and finding it.
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