Quested Quotes

#1. This was what humans fumbled for. This was what they quested for in the dark.

Brad Vance

#2. Maggie threw her head back and laughed. 'So you're going to try ... what? Birds of a Feather?' she quested.
'Of course not,' Kat said. 'Everyone knows the French government banned the importation of peacocks in 1987.

Ally Carter

#3. I said, "The thing we quested after is never attained."
He said, "The unattainable - that thing is my desire!

Muhammad Iqbal

#4. The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.

E. M. Forster

#5. How fortunate that it was an 'unconventional' party, where formalities are ruled out! On this basis Aziz found the English ladies easy to talk to, he treated them like men. Beauty would have troubled him, but Mrs Moore was so old and Miss Quested so plain that he was spared this anxiety.

E. M. Forster

#6. For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.

Christopher Smart

#7. Dee and his contemporaries quested for nothing less than Total Knowledge - and all sciences were thought to be reflections of, and ways to ascend back to, the mind of God.

Jason Louv

#8. I have always quested and still do for the Holy Grail, but I stopped looking in the earthen caves and in the stars. I started questing through the valleys and mountains of my own soul.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#9. When you're ready to stop, stop. If you have presented all the facts and made the point you want to make, look for the nearest exit.

William Zinsser

#10. The levelling process is the victory of abstraction over the individual. The levelling process in modern times, corresponds, in reflection, to fate in antiquity.

Soren Kierkegaard

#11. Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.

Emil Cioran

#12. Why buy books when you can read them online

Matthew Reilly

#13. No one could say, looking at her lined, pale and puffy face, the shapeless garish sack she had double-pinned around her, or the misfocusing eyes and slack wet mouth, that she had led the right life, and she knew it, not even with Freud's fist could she repress that ...

William H Gass

#14. I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

Lois Lowry

#15. Still, the days were endurable and came and went like breath with only a few deep heaves to harm the pace.

William H Gass