Quotes About Quest

John Williams's intense scrutiny of this romantic tale, this unquestioned gloss of the manic energies underlying westward expansion, manifest destiny, the "American spirit" and its projection of an individualism which could only be sought and found in the wild open spaces of the American Frontier.

When the zombies win, their quest to eat and infect human flesh will continue unabated. They will have known only gorging, only feasting; they will not understand the world as anything other than a screaming buffet on the run. Yet there will be only silence and vacant rooms where once there was food, and the zombies, in their slow and stumbling way, will be surprised.

Go in and get us a shrunken head!

the quest for the Holy Grail itself is not more beset with difficulties than the merest seeking after one true, unvarnished word.

Realmente es la búsqueda de un otro que no existe, y que sin embargo nos tiene arteramente contaminada la identidad.

From the Earl of Hellgate's Memoirs, Chapter the Twenty-Sixth I realized then that I had mistaken the nature of love. Love has nothing to do with desire; it's the quest for the divine, found on earth. It's finding a woman whose soul preserves a shard of heaven, and worshipping her...worshipping at her feet. I was a new man.

Ricerco un bene fuori di me. Non so chi 'l tiene non so cos'è. (Aria di Cherubino).

Anyone who is full of God's Grace will soar and keep on soaring like an eagle throughout his or her lifetime. Oh! yes, God's Grace can take you to the highest altitude even to the zenith or peak of your career or business. So, ask for and quest for the fullness of God's Grace in all you do. -Emeasoba George

Difference between excellence and mediocrity is nothing else but determined decision and quest to be recognized as a world-class and to remain a world-class. -Emeasoba George

Never underestimate the power of motivations/inspirations. For, they can turn your sorrow into pillow or joy, your unhappiness into happiness. Even your hopelessness can be transformed into hopefulness by reason of motivations/inspirations. Thus, dare to quest for inspirations/motivations whenever you feel hopeless, depressed, sorrowful and unhappy in life.

Passion, experience, willingness to learn and tireless quest for more insights are the roots of all knowledge and wisdom. ~Emeasoba George

What causes depression and eventually/at worst leads to frustration is lack of inspirations/motivations. Yes, that's because, whoever that is often inspired/motivated can't be depressed/frustrated by anyone/anything. So, never you dare to lack inspirations/motivations. Rather, do quest for them always.

What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don't know what that elsewhere is.

Nu c?ut?m noi totul, fiindc? am pierdut ceva?

This is how we recognize the man who has tendencies toward an inner quest: he will set failure above any success, he will even seek it out, unconsciously of course. This is because failure, always essential, reveals us to ourselves, permits us to see ourselves as God sees us, whereas success distances us from what is most inward in ourselves and indeed in everything.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

We pursue whatever we pursue out of torment -- a need for torment. Our very quest for salvation is a torment, the subtlest, the best camouflaged of all.

What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don't know what that elsewhere is.

We pursue whatever we pursue out of torment — a need for torment. Our very quest for salvation is a torment, the subtlest, the best camoulaged of all.

Another very popular form of magic, now and for many centuries to follow, was the whole range of alchemy which had attached itself to the more purely mystical philosophy of early Daoism. The Way of the Daoists had been a method of transcending life, of getting in touch with some form of eternity beyond life. Among their humdrum successors this ideal often became lost in the more common quest for eternal life itself...

The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.

I am looking for my Caravaggio, always.

She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.

I met one man who refused to speak of the earth, and was always talking about "going on." I reminded him that if he went on far enough he would come back to the place from which he started.