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Quotes About Quest

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
~ Agnes Repplier
The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.
~ WILLIAM J. BRENNAN
Man is always on the way.
~ Rudolf Bultmann
A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.
~ Vilayat Inayat Khan
I remain a simple man who has more questions than answers. Please join me as I seek to turn that tide.
~ Bill Duke
Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
The next morning the Fellowship, now filled out to a Tolkien-compliant head count of nine, simply walked
~ Neal Stephenson
What's an adventure?" Nell said. The word was written across the page. Then both pages filled with moving pictures of glorious things: girls in armor fighting dragons with
~ Neal Stephenson
Gomer Bolstrood
~ Neal Stephenson
Trying to crack the code used on these sheets will be a perfect puzzle to fill the gaping void
~ Neal Stephenson
Yolculu?un sonu olmayan bir Tanr? ARAYI?I de?il, sonu olmayan bir Tanr? DENEY?M?.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
We embark on this quest not from a simple desire, but from a mandate of our species to search for our place in the cosmos. The quest is old, not new. And has garnered the attention of thinkers great and small, across time and across culture. What we have discovered, the poets have known all along.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
He understood, too, that they had not necessarily been chosen to succeed, or even to live. But they'd been chosen to find the Holy Grail that was within themselves. And that's what this was always about; the Grail was a phantom and the journey was inward, into their hearts and souls.
~ Nelson DeMille
The essence of policy is its contingency; its success depends on the correctness of an estimate which is in part conjectural. The essence of bureaucracy is its quest for safety; its success is calculability . . . The attempt to conduct policy bureaucratically leads to a quest for calculability which tends to become a prisoner of events.
~ Niall Ferguson
'Simeon's Gift' is really - it's about a musician who - in the Middle Ages, who goes out to find his muse.
~ Julie Andrews
'Journey' was very much inspired by Joseph Campbell's work for 'The Hero's Journey,' but, from among his works, I like 'The Power of Myth' best.
~ Jenova Chen
The mythic journey is always about selflessness.
~ Chris Pine
Our field is very focused on finding Earth 2.0, and anything we can do to narrow the search is helpful.
~ Debra Fischer
You are not alone in your quest to be who you want and have what you want.
~ Chris Prentiss
In his quest to find the perfect supersoldier, he experimented on the girls and when he thought he perfected what he was looking for, he psychically and genetically enhanced the soldiers in his GhostWalker program.
~ Christine Feehan
She was sitting up. She lifted and pulled at her blankets, but it was gone. The hippopotamus of wisdom was nowhere in sight.
~ Christopher Bram
he despised the alternative flow of information and insight, which was gossip and rumor. Like Winston Smith, he was first and foremost activated by a raging thirst to know: a thirst that could only be slaked by a personal quest for the least varnished version of the truth.
~ Christopher Hitchens
As Bertie Wooster once phrased it, they experienced some difficulty in detecting the bluebird.
~ Christopher Hitchens
One boy … One dragon … A world of adventure.
~ Christopher Paolini