Top 100 Search Of Quotes
#1. I think I'm slightly impulsive, sometimes organised and always in search of a bargain!
Lisa Snowdon
#2. Happiness is that butterfly which comes and sit in your garden until you try to grab it, The moment we try to grab it, it flies off, so never try to grab it, just let it go, because it will come back again for search of honey and to give you happiness again.
Debolina Bhawal
#3. I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.
Aldo Leopold
#4. There is indeed something preposterous about well-educated Westerners racing East in search of spiritual enlightenment while Easterners make the opposite pilgrimage seeking education and economic opportunities.
Sam Harris
#5. We don't have to go in search of our mission or purpose. The more we search for it, the more it will elude us. We just have to be ourselves and find our joy in the present moment or do what calls us in the present moment and our mission will unfold.
Anita Moorjani
#6. Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis.
H.L. Mencken
#7. And yet the real success goes to those who obsess. The focus that leads you through the Dip to the other side is rewarded by a marketplace in search of the best in the world.
Seth Godin
#8. According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.
Plato
#9. Payattention. As a summation of all that I have had to say as a writer, I would settle for that. And as a talisman or motto for that journey in search of a homeland, which is what faith is, I would settle for that too.
Frederick Buechner
#10. For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.
Tahir Shah
#11. Sometimes people in search of a better fishing hole can't see the body of water in front of them.
Tony Todd
#12. Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.
Cornel West
#13. We all say that we are in search of LOVE, first tell me where it cannot be found?
Tonny K. Brown
#14. money can't buy good health or a serene state of mind - especially the latter. You can fly to the ends of the earth in search of the best climate or the best medical treatment and the chances are that you will have to keep flying!
Ruskin Bond
#15. The feeling of an evolution is a constant for every artist who is pursuing the search of refinement and enlargement of his/her own means of expression.
Andrea Bocelli
#17. With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.
William Least Heat-Moon
#18. This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.
David Brooks
#19. If you do not join the polluted, then you are pure; if you reject society in search of purity, that is not purity but fanaticism.
Zicheng Hong
#20. To the sane and free it will hardly seem necessary to cross the continent in search of wild beauty, however easy the way, for they find it in abundance wherever they chance to be.
John Muir
#21. Turning the pages patiently in search of meanings
W.S. Merwin
#22. Leave your comfortable life and go in search of your kingdom.
Paulo Coelho
#23. You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Horace
#24. All things living are in search of a better world .
Karl Popper
#25. Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland, in search of our better selves.
George Miller
#26. Allah makes the way to Jannah easy for him who treads the path in search of knowledge.
Abu Hurairah
#27. Imagination is a roller coaster ride in search of ideas and beauty into the wonderland of subconscious and conscious mind.
Debasish Mridha
#28. after reading an article about Ulbrickson's nutritional regimen, and contemplating his boys' success, a horse trainer named Tom Smith would go in search of hay with a high calcium content for a racehorse named Seabiscuit.
Daniel James Brown
#29. I want to believe that while we may sometimes read in the misguided pursuit of preserving our separation, there is a greater impulse inside us that compels us to read in search of the common heart.
Sue Monk Kidd
#30. Yes!' Beck crowed, pumping his fist into the air. 'That rocks!' Then he charged off in search of another Three to decapitate. Riley sighed to herself. 'I've created a monster.
Jana Oliver
#31. The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.
John D. Rockefeller
#32. A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
Kathleen Norris
#33. At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
#34. Exile, like memory, may be a place of hope and delusion. But there are rules of light there and principles of darkness ... The expatriate is in search of a country, the exile in search of a self. - Eavan Boland, OBJECT LESSONS
Kathleen Norris
#35. I am in constant search of charitable work and thank Allah that I am happy, that my children are happy, and I like that all of my family is happy.
Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi
#36. Looking back, I now realize that I left home in search of all the things that were right in the very place I left.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#37. Normal kids in their teens want to go and date girls and do mischievous things, your hormones are jumping around, but I stayed in my bedroom in search of something.
Grandmaster Flash
#39. The more pressure you place on yourself, in search of increase the more you will likely get of it
Sunday Adelaja
#40. I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.
Winston Churchill
#41. We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.
May Sarton
#42. You do not create ex nihilo. You rearrange and recombine. You are the same old flour and eggs in search of a new recipe.
Douglas Wilson
#43. There is a universal language, understood by everybody, but already forgotten. I am in search of that universal language, among other things.
Paulo Coelho
#44. We are all unconsciously in search of love. Whenever we feel its presence in our environment, we can't help but be drawn to it. There is no more compelling energy in the world.
Sonia Choquette
#45. You are my Fantasy in D minor, my ending from my search of happiness
Novellina A.
#46. Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration of a bird sailing through the air in search of prey and the patience of a donkey hauling water, playing always by the rules of the game.
Haruki Murakami
#47. When it is going well, it is the best job [writing] in the world. For those few hours, you are god, in control of everything. However, for me, the great joy of writing is that it has allowed me to travel the world in search of stories.
Michael Scott
#48. Magic wasn't something I had to go in search of; it was here, within me, all the time. When hearts are open, when love is flowing, magic happens.
Katrina Kenison
#49. I then watched filing past and besieging me old men in search of easy revenue, young men in search of adventure to occupy their leisure. My successive refusals gave me in town the reputation of a 'lioness' or 'mad woman.' Who let loose this greedy pack of hounds after me?
Mariama Ba
#50. When I was born, I was colored. I soon became a Negro. Not long after that I was black. Most recently I was African-American. It seems we're on a roll here. But I am still first and foremost in search of freedom.
Harry Belafonte
#51. People floating like pollen in search of more fertile soil.
Andrew Crofts
#52. Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.
Henry David Thoreau
#53. In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.
Mark Foley
#54. Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned
in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?
Virginia Woolf
#55. In search of love and music my whole life has been
Illumination
Corruption
And diving, diving, diving, diving down
To pick up on every shiny thing
Joni Mitchell
#56. I was rather fond of her, but I was even fonder of my vices, my mania for running away from everywhere in search of God knows what, driven, I suppose, by stupid pride, by a sense of some sort of superiority
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#57. I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.
Kabir
#58. If we'd never met, I think I would have known my life wasn't complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn't know who I was looking for.
Nicholas Sparks
#59. I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.
Horace Walpole
#60. Love one another without any expectations. Then, there is no need to go anywhere in search of heaven.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#61. There were no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come back to the most hackneyed concepts, like kindness, forbearance, infinite self patience.
Chad Harbach
#62. [ ... ]And his head is on fire with new things[ ... ]he called himself the little blue hermit, scuttling across the sand in search of a new shell, but now he looks at the sky and knows that no shell will ever be big enough, ever.
Terry Pratchett
#64. One can imagine that if humanity suddenly disappeared from the planet, the cat would shrug its shoulders, raise its tail, and return to its forest habitat, there to live as its ancestors have done for two million years, forever in search of something small, furry, and squeaky to play with.
Eric Chaline
#65. The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence.
Annie Dillard
#66. Steady, patient, persevering thinking will generally surmount every obstacle in search of truth.
Nathanael Emmons
#67. I sat down, turning the pages of my notebook in search of a blank page, in the dim light of my room. The arrival of nightfall had invited leafy shadows to play hide and seek in the glass reflection of the window. I smiled as one of these mischievous shadows crept across the page in a midnight dance.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
#68. But then, that's the beauty of writing stories - each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there's no feeling like it.
[Peter Wild Interviews TC Boyle, 3:AM Magazine, June 2003]
T.C. Boyle
#69. Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.
Seth Godin
#70. My love, stay here.
Going in search of Self (as a goal) is illusion;
You are already the One Self.
You will purchase the map,
Only to find you are already Here.
Mooji
#71. I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were ... miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around.
John Green
#72. Every being is in search of truth, but small fears go on preventing you.
Rajneesh
#73. Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.
Maya Angelou
#74. He sent the trained dog that is his talent off in search of a fat glorious pheasant, and it brought back the lower half of a Barbie doll.
George Saunders
#75. Industries, unlike organisms, have no organic limits on their own growth; they are constantly in search of new markets, or of new ways to exploit old ones more effectively; as Karl Marx unsympathetically observed, they 'nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connexions everywhere.
Tim Wu
#76. We're a nation in search of an identity, but it's quite exciting. I don't regard it as a problem. It's a challenge.
Helen Clark
#77. It was at that age
that poetry came in search of me.
Pablo Neruda
#78. Man is a being in search of meaning.
Plato
#79. Go where you will, if a shilling can there be procured, you may expect to meet with individuals in search of it.
John James Audubon
#80. Were all trying to find meaning to make sense of our realities; in search of happiness within,
Without realising our happiness within; is the only reality that gives life a meaning.
Nikki Rowe
#81. He would drift through the house in search of the coolest spot to read through the long summer afternoons that had a touch of eternity to them, altering the arrangement of his limbs as much for comfort as for the fear that his undisturbed shadow would leave a stain on the wall.
Nadeem Aslam
#82. 'In Search of Excellence' was an afterthought, the runt of the McKinsey consulting litter, a hip-pocket project that was never supposed to amount to much.
Tom Peters
#83. I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose.
Alexander Borodin
#84. I feel so agitated all the time, like a hamster in search of a wheel.
Carrie Fisher
#85. Two things can make life meaningful: books and love ... I already have books. Now I am setting off in search of love.
Joel Dicker
#86. A man and woman in search of something are always blown apart, but it's the same wind that blows them.
Frank O'Connor
#87. Two people departed ... in search of love ... leaving love in between
Santosh Avvannavar
#88. I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in the loneliness. There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream. (217)
Sherman Alexie
#89. The great Jewish Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote, "The Greeks learned in order to comprehend. The Hebrews learned in order to revere. The modern man learns in order to use" ('God in Search of Man' p34)
Paul F Herring
#90. The biggest problem is startups in search of a problem. Chase what you're passionate about; you'll probably already have knowledge in the space.
Mike Krieger
#91. A human being is a problem in search of a solution.
Robert Ardrey
#92. In the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women and children victims of trafficking ... Many move simply to avoid dying of hunger. When leaving is not an option but a necessity, this is more than poverty.
Antonio Guterres
#93. I think it is an intelligent story [The Intruders]. You've got adult characters who are in search of some things that are out there that we sense are out there, but we don't have any proof. John's character stumbles into that situation.
Glen Morgan
#94. My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.
Muhammad Iqbal
#95. He's the man we were in search of, that's true, and yet he's not the man we were in search of. For the man we were in search of was not the man we wanted.
Thomas Hardy
#96. In search of a pay phone. He found a phone inside the bus depot. He dialed his bank's number from memory. Nine-forty in the West, twelve-forty in the East. Lunch time in Virginia, but someone should be there.
Lee Child
#98. always was and would be a serious soul in search of serious ideas to be serious about. Nina
Amor Towles
#99. One can forget the meaninglessness of his own existence by occupying himself with scientific experiments of dubious import. Countless scientists and scholars spend their lives in the search of truths that are irrelevant to them.
John Silber
#100. In the search [of a deal], we adopt the same attitude one might find appropriate in looking for a spouse: It pays to be active, interested, and open-minded, but it does not pay to be in a hurry.
Warren Buffett
