Top 100 Searched Quotes
#1. At age fourteen I was asking questions. When the answers failed to satisfy me, I searched elsewhere for different answers and found wisdom in atheism. And I am far from alone in that experience.
Hemant Mehta
#2. He searched the ground floor and found only shadow and stillness, which should've reassured him but didn't. It was the wrong kind of stillness, the shocked stillness that follows the bang of a cherry bomb. His eardrums throbbed from the pressure of all that quiet, a dreadful silence.
Joe Hill
#3. I have searched far and wide ... he whispered, and have finally found the one my heart desires.
Jody Hedlund
#4. Wouldn't we all look guilty, if someone searched hard enough?
Abigail Haas
#5. By combining instinct and technique, I searched for that small zone where I could push myself as hard as possible without injury and the unraveling of the body's systems. Accessing and staying in that small zone is the key to success.
Scott Jurek
#6. Shit, Anita. Zombies in your apartment and a mad millionaire after you to perform human sacrifices." Her grey eyes searched my face. "You're the only person I know who has weirder problems than I do.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#7. Medical men have searched the world for remedies, desiring an antidote. Chiropractors find the cause in the person ailing.
B. J. Palmer
#8. He searched for words to poison the shaft of his disdain.
Margaret Landon
#9. O Lord, you have searched me and you know me.
Anonymous
#10. Tonight, it's - the is like
" I searched for the right word to encapsulate how it made me feel, how beautiful it was. "Lying here and looking up at the stars like this, it makes me feel like I'm lying on a planet. It's so wide. So infinite.
Jenny Han
#11. She searched for a possible escape route should she need one and spied the paper skeleton immediately behind her and shrieked for the second time. Who needed ghosts to haunt a house when one could form his own demons out of paper?
Charlie N. Holmberg
#12. Of late I have searched diligently to discover the advantages of age, and there is, I have concluded, only one. It is that lovely women treat your approaches with understanding rather than with disdain.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#13. No matter how you have searched, there will always be one teaspoon left at the bottom of the washing-up water.
Irene Thomas
#14. His eyes searched every inch of my face. "I don't know . . . if I've ever been this distracted by someone," he said.
Christina Lauren
#15. No other society in the history of the world has searched so long for a meaningful cultural identity and failed in its quest as has America, the land of You Are What You Do.
Lester D. Langley
#16. She searched until there was only searching left.
Emma Cline
#17. Mr. Hitler was big on me. He kept writing and inviting me to come to Germany, and if the war hadn't started when it did, I would have gone and I would have taken a gun out of my purse and shot him, because I am the only person who would not have been searched.
Greta Garbo
#18. We are born more dead than when we die after we have searched death through the storm of the instants of our entire life.
Sorin Cerin
#19. I hardly think a girl is much of a threat. I presume you searched her for weapons? But if she attempts to suffocate me with her straw mattress, I promise to call out for help.
Mary Hoffman
#20. Man is a rational animal. So at least we have been told. Throughout a long life I have searched diligently for evidence in favor of this statement. So far, I have not had the good fortune to come across it.
Bertrand Russell
#21. His eyes searched hers. I'd rather just be me. Feel comfortable in my own skin and be able to speak my mind without having to carry a damned thesaurus. Sure doesn't seem worth giving up who you are to please others. Far as I'm concerned, they either like me or they don't. Their choice.
Leah Braemel
#22. Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks: Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books.
William Shakespeare
#23. I searched my mind for the right visualization. I knew it had to start with what I put in my head. That is where all my accomplishments are formed.
Tina M. Randolph
#24. I searched my feelings, an activity never far removed from looking for a dead rat in a spidery crawl space under the house.
Michael Chabon
#25. Zurich in 1915, ... While the thunder of the batteries rumbled in the distance, we pasted, we recited, we versified, we sang with all our soul. We searched for an elementary art that would, we thought, save mankind from the madness of these times.
Hans Arp
#26. As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at maintaining the whites' control over the country.
Joe Slovo
#27. He searched her eyes, and there it was. A sense of time slowing down. A world melting away with only two souls remaining. An eternity of longing. Bittersweet and desperate.
Couldn't she feel it, too?
Kerrelyn Sparks
#28. I'd searched everywhere for this thing called love. I went through life seeking something that would be the ultimate.
Christian Hosoi
#29. By "radical" I mean something more than that they aimed to change the order of society in a fundamental way or that they searched for the deepest roots of problems. The opposite of radical is not "moderate" or "conservative" but "common.
Matthew Stewart
#30. Once my gaze met his, it was impossible to look away. His eyes were like the cover of a book - giving you hints but not the whole story. And I wanted to know the story. If I searched his eyes long and hard enough, maybe what I craved would seep out.
Penelope Douglas
#31. He left feeling that if he had searched harder, he might have found her - that he was leaving her behind.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#32. When he saw Julia, he searched himself for the old love he used to feel for her. It wasn't gone, but it was a dull, distant ache, still there but healed over
just the shrapnel they couldn't remove.
Lev Grossman
#33. I have searched all over the world but failed to see a virtue better than being well-behaved.
Rumi
#34. I wish I didn't get searched when I come through customs.
I wish Christians stop beefin' with Muslims,
Wish the poor didn't have to take welfare,
Wish America had universal health care ...
Cause ain't no help here.
Ed O.G.
#35. They felt that it was much easier and safer to rob their own people, for they knew that white policemen never really searched diligently for Negroes who committed crimes against other Negroes.
Richard Wright
#36. I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all the acquisitions and accomplishments- they run you down in the end.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#37. He searched his mind for something more to say, something to take away her pain, but he could find nothing. There were no words to ease such a pain. He knew because the ache in his heart was as great as hers.
Bette Lee Crosby
#38. I've searched the world for all the right words and my mouth is full of nothing.
Tahereh Mafi
#40. For a long time I searched for the black stone that cleanses the soul of death.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
#41. Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.
George Santayana
#42. This was, I thought, why love was so dangerous. I searched for the right words, when a certain warmth stole over me at the realization that her happiness was more important than fear. Even if she left me ...
Stephanie Dray
#43. Assuredly men of merit are never lacking at any time, for those are the men who manage affairs, and it is affairs that produce the men. I have never searched, and I have always found under my hand the men who have served me, and for the most part I have been well served.
Catherine The Great
#44. As the former British chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks has expressed it: "If the Nazis searched out every Jew in hate, the Rebbe wished to search out every Jew in love.
Joseph Telushkin
#45. For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power.
David W. Earle
#46. It was one of his long, lazily thorough kisses that left your mouth feeling like it had just been strip searched and your breath better stolen than even the thin oxygen could manage, and he did it well.
Rolf & Ranger
#47. Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I collapsed. Everyone was strip searched on the way in.
John Blair
#48. I also know about running away," I said, when staying around is so much harder. And I know the happiness, the"-I searched for a word and had to settle on- "the joy when sticking around and fighting things mean I get to keep the people I love near me.
Faith Hunter
#49. First, you must light a middling fire under the cauldron."
"What's a middling fire?"
"Medium."
I searched the pot. "Where's the ignition switch?"
Bridget leaned in and whispered, "You use magic to start the fire.
Lowvee Cole
#50. Nina screamed, a howl that tore from the black space where her heart had beat only moments before. She searched for his pulse, for the light and force that had been Matthias.
Leigh Bardugo
#51. I narrowed my eyes. I don't trust you.
I don't trust you,either.
So we don't move.
Ever? He met my eyes again,and searched me.
Jodi Meadows
#52. O LORD, you have p searched me and known me! 2 You q know when I sit down and when I rise up; you r discern my thoughts from afar. 3 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.
Anonymous
#53. How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!
William Shakespeare
#54. She had blue skin,
And so did he.
He kept it hid
And so did she.
They searched for blue
Their whole life through,
Then passed right by-
And never knew.
Shel Silverstein
#55. You know Nana, I searched and searched, but could never find the key that unlocked the way. And now that I've stopped looking, I've finally found it. Maybe the door will open for me.
Ai Yazawa
#56. I've searched for the path to God all my life - I know you have - - and now I've found it and I can't believe it. It feels like I'm sitting here, writing this to myself. You are.
Neale Donald Walsch
#57. I am nothing if not gracious," Will said. His eyes searched Jem's face, that face as familiar to him as his own. "And determined. You will not leave me. Not while I live.
Cassandra Clare
#58. You can't go on running forever ... " "And you can't go on ... " Alfie desperately searched for the right word, " ... mopedding* forever!
David Walliams
#59. Regardless of how me or this man right here or anybody else in this business get, when we walk on an airplane in first-class looking like this, we're gonna get searched.
Method Man
#60. No one could tell me where my soul might be;
I searched for God but he eluded me;
I sought my brother out and found all three.
Ernest Howard Crosby
#61. No, adulting is like" - she searched for the right words - "looking both ways before you cross the street and then getting hit by an airplane.
Jill Shalvis
#62. People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#63. I have a lot of money, many millions some earned and more inherited. What I don't have is a desire to work. I'm not sure where I left it, but it's been missing for a while, and I haven't searched real hard.
David Rosenfelt
#64. I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them.
Werner Herzog
#65. They strip-searched me!" he burst out. "Me! Old enough to be their grandfather and they made me stand naked in the road, my things all unpacked in the mud!
Julia Golding
#66. It was easier to scribble over memories a person didn't want to remember, so they searched for these people - the abused and neglected.
Sean DeLauder
#67. But i can't let you go," he said. "How could I let you go? I searched my heart" - he shrugged - "and I love you.
Lauren Myracle
#68. I slipped my hand into hers. A strange and unfamiliar feeling ran through me. It felt like the ocean, like sunlight, like horses. Like love. I searched my mind and found the name for it. Joy.
Kimberley Brubaker Bradley
#69. We have searched the wide world over and not found forgetfulness.
Fritz Leiber
#70. The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul. In its experiments there has always remained, in the last analysis, a residuum it could not resolve. Man is a stream whose source is hidden.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#71. Because that was what we all did - we searched for labels for people until we found one we thought might fit, and then we sighed in relief that we had placed them.
Erin McCarthy
#72. Kane..." she hesitated. "I lied to you last night."
His green eyes searched her face. "What did you lie about?"
"When I said... when I said I didn't want to kiss you again." Her breath came out in an unsteady puff. "I lied.
Elle Kennedy
#73. I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
Frank Zappa
#74. [Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and have questioned some cleric about the truths of the faith. After that, they boast that they have searched in books and among men in vain.
Blaise Pascal
#75. People tend to link "sex and drugs" because both are condemned by society. Nevertheless, throughout the ages human beings have continually searched for more ecstasy, more sexual satisfaction, for solutions to their sexual problems, and for aphrodisiacs.
Rick Doblin
#76. It was unfair that people who longed for love the most, searched the hardest for it, found it so elusive.
Lisa Kleypas
#77. Mairi was searching for her lost wolf. Ronan shook with a bitter chuckle. Little did the woman know, her lost wolf searched for her.
Maeve Greyson
#78. Dear friend, I have searched all night
through each burnt paper,
but I fear I will never find
the formula to let you die
Leonard Cohen
#79. And so he drifted back to London ... where he lived a life of increasingly busy idleness as he searched out one diversion after another
Mary Balogh
#80. When they searched my car, they said that they found a gasoline canister and I think duct tape. Who wouldn't have a gasoline canister on them when driving 3,000 miles across country?
Sherman Austin
#81. Tim Price has captured my imagination on many occasions with his forward thinking arrangements and wonderfully captivating playing. He is a unique musician made more unique because he has searched and found his own voice. Truly a rare find in music.
Jeff Coffin
#82. I frantically opened my address book and searched it for someone, anyone, who'd moved me, who'd been good in both bed and brain. No. A slew of the so-so.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#83. I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed
Algernon Blackwood
#84. Someone once told me that Yahweh would make himself known to me, if I searched. And he did. Perhaps he will make himself known to you.
Connilyn Cossette
#85. Now look," snapped the Dean, "we've searched everywhere for a decent library on this island. There simply isn't one! It's ridiculous. How is anyone supposed to get anything done?
Terry Pratchett
#86. I searched so hard for a part that was so complex.
Anne Heche
#87. Isaac stared at Laurent and searched his warm eyes, which were just the color of melted chocolate. Maybe with bits of caramel. Great. He was thinking about Laurent's eyes like candy. Was he hungry or horny? Hard to tell.
Avon Gale
#88. Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him!
hang him!
Oscar Wilde
#89. Your woe hath been my anguish; yea, I quail
And perish in your perishing unblest.
And I have searched the highths and depths, the scope
Of all our universe, with desperate hope
To find some solace for your wild unrest.
James Thomson
#90. Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
Victor Hugo
#91. If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.
Matthew Perry
#92. Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.
Edwin Arnold
#93. do not expect high CTRs on Facebook. Unlike Google, where the average CTR is 1%, on Facebook you can expect CTRs of 0.1%, as on Facebook ads are displayed and not searched for.
Gabriela Taylor
#94. Albert B. Saye, who has searched hardest for debtors among the colonists, estimates that not more than a dozen debtors released from prison by Parliament ever came to Georgia, if indeed that many came.
Kenneth Coleman
#95. If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology and religion, we would not find anyone like the Jew. Notice, I do not say the Israeli.
Hassan Nasrallah
#96. Malachi Smith. Crispin Jones. Suzette Boudrot. Claude Le Breton." Matthew paused as Ransome searched the ledger's entries for the names. "You should have kept them in chronological order instead of alphabetical. That's how I remember them." Ransome
Deborah Harkness
#97. Together they stood in the doorway. For Sethe it was as though the Clearing had come to her with all its heat and simmering leaves, where the voices of women searched for the right combination, the key, the code, the sound that broke the back of words.
Toni Morrison
#98. But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home.
Georg Solti
#100. They lock you in the hole and they don't let you out until you consent to be searched internally.
Assata Shakur
