Quotes About Quest

My aunt was a chef and she inspired me deeply so she was a huge motivator but more than anything it was a quest for independence and freedom that lead me to an L.A. Culinary School.

I started out with a quest for wanting to be in the magazine, and I discovered Hef and how wonderful he is. When he asked me out, I couldn't resist.

And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.

It is human nature that when you see something work well, you do more of it. If, in its ceaseless quest for revenue, government sees a seemingly harmless method of raising funds without causing much inflation, it will grab on to it.

I've always been a person that is searching for truth and always wants to go further, deeper.

Luck is something you find, or you go for it.

Danger, a quest, three figures. They are close to you, but they are not your friends." She let my hand go. "Beware of them!

We're wired somehow to want to be part of something bigger. And we quest to understand what our role is.

Every human being was wired with the desire for happiness. And we will try different things all in the pursuit of that feeling.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

The Grail is the womb of the beloved.

I haven't lost that quest and that thirst to do something great.

I have this thirst for knowledge that I can't ever satisfy.

I have a thirst - it's an awful word, but I'm thirsty for knowledge. I like knowing things, the odder the better, the more obtuse the better.

Shooting a film is like a kismet quest. You have thirty days and you need magic to happen. So that's why I wear suits. I'm praying to the gods, and I'm doing everything I can to respect the powers of the world.

There's the trick: to find the way - whether forwards or back - to what we long to be.

Hard roads and wide will run through Raintree County. You will hunt it on the map, and it won't be there.

I'm just a floating question-mark, waiting for an answer to hook onto me.

As a general pattern, suffering stimulates a quest for meaningful explanation.

Yet even for al-Ghazzali the law is the indispensable beginning; and when completely internalized, the law also becomes an integral part of the end toward which the spiritual quest is directed. Ghazzali writes: "Know that the beginning of guidance is outward piety and the end of guidance is inward piety.

cabalgad, cabalgad sin descanso—respondió la sombra,—si buscáis el Eldorado....».

...I didn't do anything that can properly be called research; rather, I proceeded by the methodless method of "determined browsing"—

I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks.

Henry Hudson was in his forties when he stepped into the light of history, a seasoned mariner, a man with a strong and resourceful wife and three sons, a man born and raised not only to the sea but to the quest for a northern passage to Asia, who, weaned from infancy on the legends of his predecessors, probably couldn't help but be obsessed by it.