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Quotes About Searching

There are no sure answers, only better questions.
~ Dick Van Dyke
It's not like I have all the answers.
~ Regina Spektor
You know I was always looking out for age appropriate roles.
~ Zeenat Aman
I live from one tentative conclusion to the next, thinking each one is final. The only thing i know for sure is that I'am confused.
~ Hugh Prather
A joyful task,' he says and she realizes that he welcomes the idea of years of searching, tile by tile, inscription by inscription, cornice by cornice and niche by niche, that the painstaking search of Sinan's greatest achievement, decades long, is the holy task; that the secret letter is cut in every stone and tile. By the time you find it, you have realized the supreme unimportance of finding it. A Sufi lesson.
~ Unknown
Someone saw Nasrudin searching for something on the ground. 'What have you lost, Mulla?' he asked. 'My key,' said the Mulla. So they both went down on their knees and looked for it. After a time the other man asked: 'Where exactly did you drop it?' 'In my own house.' 'Then why are you looking here?' 'There is more light here than inside my own house.
~ Idries Shah
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, of making a mistake,... of searching and experimenting,... of saying No to any authority — literary, artistic, philosophical, religious, social, and even political.
~ Ignazio Silone
Jay couldn't fill that empty space with anything. Nothing brought him joy.
~ Ilchi Lee
The outsider is not sure who he is. He has found an "I", but it is not his true "I".' His main business is to find his way back to himself.
~ Colin Wilson
Gorman sensed it was looking for him but could not find him. After several minutes of quartering the area, the object flew toward the ridge and Gorman climbed out from his hiding place and began shouting and taunting the object. Gorman said it blinked several times on and off and then flew away.
~ Unknown
The Windows In these dark rooms where I pass such listless days, I wander up and down looking for the windows – when a window opens there will be some relief. But there are no windows, or at least I cannot find them. And perhaps it's just as well. Perhaps the light would prove another torment. Who knows what new things it would reveal?
~ Constantinos P. Cavafis
There was something she should have experienced, something besides this. There was a path somewhere that she could not find. It was and it was not her own fault.
~ Unknown
We're all of us prospectors up here, eh, Tyler? Scratchin' for that... that one crack in the ground. Never have to scratch again. I'll let you in on a little secret, Tyler: the gold's not in the ground. The gold's not anywhere up here. The real gold is south of 60 - sittin' in livin' rooms, stuck facin' the boob tube, bored to death. Bored to death, Tyler...Boredom - that's what's wrong. And how do you beat boredom, Tyler?... Adventure.
~ Curtis Hanson
I'm not lost,I'm just in between places I recognize.
~ Cybill Shepherd
Oriel didn't move. But inside of his head, all was movement, like a river running over rapids, searching for the way through, trying routes around rocks and over shallows, a turbulence of thought more rapid than he could follow. Griff, he knew, would do and say nothing until he heard Oriel's choice.
~ Cynthia Voigt
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
~ John Irving
Well... I'm a wicked man who can, on occasion, be just a bit nice. And I've been searching for a nice girl who can, on occasion, be just a bit wicked. -St. Vincent
~ Lisa Kleypas
Somewhere out there, the perfect man you deserve is probably searching for you." Phoebe laughed against his mouth. "Let's hurry, then- we can be married before he gets here.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I'm a wicked man who can, on occasion, be just a bit nice. And I've been searching for a nice girl who can, on occasion, be just a bit wicked." -Sebastian St. Vincent
~ Lisa Kleypas
Well…" St. Vincent walked slowly with her to the crowd of dancers. "I'm a wicked man who can, on occasion, be just a bit nice. And I've been searching for a nice girl who can, on occasion, be just a bit wicked.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Do you have information regarding his whereabouts, Mr. Severin?" she asked unsteadily. Tom looked directly at her then, the nonchalant mask temporarily falling away. His intense, searching gaze somehow burned through the numbness of the past twenty-four hours. "No, sweetheart," he said gently, as if there where no one else in the room. The deliberate endearment caused a few breaths to catch audibly, including hers.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I'm a wicked man who can, on occasion, be just a bit nice. And I've been searching for a nice girl who can, on occasion, be just a bit wicked.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Lisa Plumley
~ Unknown
But then two lost souls searching for an escape should connect, I reason.
~ Lisa Renee Jones