Quotes About Quest

The search of reason ends at the shore of the known

So You Want To Be A Wizard?

Striking in its insistence and durability is the quest or desire for a decisive criterion with which to differentiate humans from other animals as well as the human from the animal in human beings.

He spent half his life looking for bottle openers in other peoples' kitchens.

My heart has followed, all my days, something I cannot name.

The quest to be right is about sekf-importance: we need to be right in order to accept ourselves; this is a condition we place on our sekf-acceotance and our acceptance of others. The quest for truth, on the other hand, is the desire to discover--regardless of whether our beliefs are supported in the process.

The elders constantly reminded Sacred Feathers of the need to make a vision quest -- to obtain, through fasting, a guardian spirit to guide and protect them through life. Animals, birds, and fish could speak with them and, in a dream or vision, give their power.

he did believe we were designed to search for and find something. And he wondered out loud if the point wasn't the search but the transformation the search creates.

must always know who the hero is, what the hero wants, who the hero has to defeat to get what they want, what tragic thing will happen

I longed for glory. I remember nothing of my childhood more than my fervor for tales of glory and my plans to travel the world in quest of fame.

The catalyst for any story is that the hero wants something.

A story starts with a hero who wants something. And then the question becomes: Will the hero get what she wants?

Oh, this is another hero, like me. I wish I had more time to hear their story, but right now I'm busy looking for a guide.

In a story, audiences must always know who the hero is, what the hero wants, who the hero has to defeat to get what they want, what tragic thing will happen if the hero doesn't win, and what wonderful thing will happen if they do.

Once we identify who our customer is, we have to ask ourselves what they want as it relates to our brand. The catalyst for any story is that the hero wants something. The rest of the story is a journey about discovering whether the hero will get what they want.

M]ay not literature (and, in particular, fiction) be considered a desperate and permanently thwarted effort to produce a unique form of expression? Something like a cry, perhaps, a cry that, somehow, inexplicably contains all the millions of words that have ever existed, anywhere, in any age. In contrast with the spoken word and its classifying function, the purpose of writing seems, rather, to be a quest for the egg, the seed, nothing more.

Our society has replaced heroes with celebrities, the quest for a well-informed character with the search for flat abs, substance and depth with image and personality.

History is the narrative of people searching for a place to go.

Lord of the Rings!

To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.

Life is hunger, thirst, and passion for an ultimate object, which looms over the horizon, and yet always lies beyond it. When this is recognized, man becomes a tireless searcher.

In their vain quest for happiness, they only succeed in rendering it more inaccessible not only for themselves, but for everybody else.

A busca nos caminhos da infância, "sou um arco em tuas mãos, Senhor. Distenda-o para que não apodreça". Os encontros e as despedidas, tanta estrada, tanta, teria que usar sapatos de ferro como os da rainha da história antiquíssima cruzando montanhas e vales, procurava alguma coisa - o quê?

Os encontros e as despedidas, tanta estrada, tanta, teria que usar sapatos de ferro como os da rainha da história antiquíssima cruzando montanhas e vales, procurava alguma coisa - o quê?!