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Quotes About Quest

Where's the dam water fountain I'm thirsty?
~ Rick Riordan
Seven half-bloods shall answer the call, To storm or fire the world must fall. An oath to keep with a final breath, And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death.
~ Rick Riordan
The manager turned up his palms. I don't have those answers, Samirah, but Huginn and Muninn will brief you privately. Go with them to the high places of Valhalla. Let them show you thoughts and memories. To me, that sounded like some trippy vision quest with Darth Vader appearing in a foggy cave.
~ Rick Riordan
But in that moment, I knew it wasn't just the poison that was killing her. It was her fathers final blow. Zoë had known all along that the Oracle's prophecy was about her: she would die by a parent's hand. And yet she'd taken the quest anyway. She had chosen to save me, and Atlas's fury had broken her inside.
~ Rick Riordan
You shall go west, and face the god who has turned. His buddy on the right looked up and said in the same voice: You shall find what was stolen, and see it safely returned. The guy on the left threw in two poker chips, then said: You shall be betrayed by one who calls you a friend. Finally, Eddie, our building super, delivered the worst line of all: And you shall fail to save what matters most, in the end.
~ Rick Riordan
So, if I looked him up on google maps-
~ Rick Riordan
WE MEET THE SHEEP OF DOOM
~ Rick Riordan
Quest. Say it, reader. Say the word quest lout loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.
~ Kate DiCamillo
You, friend, are on a quest. I don't know what that is, said Despereaux. You don't have to know. You just have to feel compelled to do the thing, the impossible, important task at hand.
~ Kate DiCamillo
How could he explain? If he told her that after the vision, all the knights had gone in quest of the Grail, would she understand?
~ Katherine Paterson
And as they shook hands, he almost told Bishop about the little voice in his head that was whispering, He'll find Miranda. But not yet. Not just yet. Then he saw the flicker in Bishop's pale eyes, and realized that the telepath had read him and his little voice. But he hadn't needed a seer to tell him what he was utterly convinced of. He would find his Miranda. Sooner or later. Quentin wondered if he would be so lucky with the end of his own troubled quest.
~ Kay Hooper
it was indeed 'as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there'.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
pilgrimages or crusades. Even a monk must
~ Ken Follett
The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.
~ Ken Kesey
By the pink left nipple of sweet Vashtilulu the Buxom! I feel you have Koztivkure slung on your back! Strike down the foul wizard, and have done! Aye, squeaked Tosho, for what he had you do to me, do as Krak says, and strike his blasphemous head from his loathsome shoulders!
~ Kenneth Bulmer
The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.
~ Aristotle
Science is not and cannot be a quest for a complete knowledge of the universe. Rather, it is a process whereby certain information is selected as being more relevant to human aims and understanding.
~ William Poundstone
O mistress mine! where are you roaming?
~ William Shakespeare
The whole question of the steam engine is one of economy. It's development consist of nothing but the quest for greater efficiency.
~ William Stanley Jevons
Durant tota la joventut t'he estat buscant sense saber què buscava.
~ William Stanley Merwin
Only by going on an untrod path, by making your own path, by being your singular self, can anyone find his own grail. In
~ Win Blevins
a flagstone path curved into the darkness of space toward… who knows where? I knew—that's knew—I had to follow that path.
~ Win Blevins
Sunshine is my quest.
~ Winston Churchill