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Quotes About Quest

Come with me beneath the waves,' she calls to him. 'Drown with me in delight.' He laughs a little shakily. 'A compelling offer, but I must see my quest to its conclusion.
~ Holly Black
Fiction---good fiction, anyway---is dream made flesh, given purpose and drive, and set on a quest to show us the best in us and to give us the power and the tools to dream beyond reality's 'merely good enough' to a vision of what is truly great... ...and then to give us the stories of men and women of character who in turn inspire those of us who dare to reach for the truly great within ourselves. THAT is why you write fiction.
~ Holly Lisle
Always in her mind there had been the belief that somewhere on earth there was a better way to live, and that she would find it.
~ Lily King
Philosophy is all very well," said the Bazonga bird. "For philosophers! But we are adventurers, bound on a quest of derring-do and all that sort of thing. Less chitchat and more action, say I!
~ Unknown
Fight hard and fight well. But know that a quest for justice without wisdom and compassion can all too easily become cruelty.
~ Linda Sue Park
Boys chase girls. Women chase men. Men chase history.
~ Unknown
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?
~ Unknown
We can travel all over the world in a soul quest to "find ourselves" and answer proverbial questions about the meaning of life.
~ Unknown
Hedwig is on a quest; she's on a quest as much as Jason and the Argonauts, as much as the boy in 'A.I.' She's looking for something. She's looking for her other half, and she's on tour. Monsters, Cyclops - maybe they're her mom? - appear on various islands.
~ John Cameron Mitchell
My quest to expand access to space began more than a decade ago, when I teamed up with Burt Rutan at Scaled Composites to build SpaceShipOne. This innovative air-launched vehicle was the world's first private spacecraft to carry an astronaut into sub-orbital space.
~ Paul Allen
compatriots in the search for a little passion on earth.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
I have to pause the video while I corral the dogs in the other room. They howl in protest, and I tell them they are harshing my mellow and Yogi Beef Jerky's going to be pissed. Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest To Discover if Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, Or Why Pie is Not The Answer
~ Jen Lancaster
Das Mädchen ist auf der Suche, es versucht zu sprechen, aber wie durch eine löchrige Dekoration scheint durch das Vokabular, an dem nichts eigentlich Falsches ist, immer eine schwarze, gähnende Leere hindurch.
~ Jenny Erpenbeck
Dove va un uomo, quando non sa dove andare?
~ Jenny Erpenbeck
Hallblithe was created by William Morris and appeared in The Story of the Glittering Plain Which Has Also Been Called the
~ Unknown
There are only two good outcomes for a quest like this, the hope of the serendipitous savant — sail for Asia and stumble on America — and the hope of scarecrows and tin men: that you find out you had the thing you sought all along.
~ Jess Walter
What was transformative was being at the inauguration, reading my poem, and realizing that the quest for home and identity had always been part of my work, but that I'd been home all along.
~ Richard Blanco
Every work begins with a search
~ Sunday Adelaja
A mapping of discovery should be carried out
~ Sunday Adelaja
The only true and lasting inspiration for life is genuine love for God, and submitted gratitude that I get to be a part of the redemptive quest.
~ John Ortberg
There are many lessons people can learn about the left. One of the key lessons is they never give anything up. Once they begin a quest, they don't stop until they've got it. The other thing that you need to learn is, they're never happy even after they succeed. They are never happy because there can never be enough to satisfy them.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Whether you are seeking adventure, or adventure is seeking you. You will find adventure, or adventure will find you.
~ Unknown
The word question is derived from the Latin quarrier (to seek) which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions can be very useful guides. Most useful are open-ended questions; they allow for fresh unanticipated answers to reveal themselves.
~ Unknown
Not all those who wonder are lost.
~ Unknown