Searching For Quotes

#1. I would never shop from the Internet or a catalogue; otherwise, how am I going to educate my eye? I just love going out and searching for new things.

Kelly Wearstler

#2. The problem with this generation is they are so quick to define who they are in the process of searching. It is their need for immediate acceptance that keeps them from exploring further.

Shannon L. Alder

#3. I brought you here to tell you this: sometimes what we are searching for does not exist. We may sacrifice for it, even bleed for it, but it was never meant to be ours.

Esther Dalseno

#4. Memory as an article of faith often comes naturally to writers, who by temperament are likely to be diarists and record keepers, forever searching past events for elusive patterns - and forever believing that such patterns are to be found.

Dara Horn

#5. Man may live and man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky, he must fall.

Cat Stevens

#6. Will searching for distant messages work? Is there intelligent life out there? The SETI effort is worth continuing, but our common-sense beacons approach seems more likely to answer those questions.

Gregory Benford

#7. The traveller in the read-brown clothes that he wears that dust may not show upon him, the girl searching in her bed for the petals fallen from the wreath of her royal lover, the servant or the bride awaiting the master's home-coming in the empty house, are images of the heart turning to God.

Rabindranath Tagore

#8. Every time you used, it was a risk searching for a high just like the first time, a high you would never find again.

Bob Pastorella

#9. In searching for ways to bridge the generation gap, there is no doubt that we, as parents, will have to practice what we preach, by striving more to bring our conduct into line with our code of beliefs.

Billy Graham

#10. I had been searching for truth, but it is strange to say that as long as the searcher was there, truth was not found. And when the truth was found, I looked all around ... I was absent. When the truth was found, the seeker was no more; and when the seeker was, truth was nowhere.

Osho

#11. I remember one little rainy day I went searching for this apartment and I saw so many people standing on a stoop on the corner in the rain. Later I realized, that was drug traffic. They were all buying drugs.

Ai Weiwei

#12. My eyes always keep searching,
for something inexpressible,
above the far away sky.

I long to get lost,
inside the evening-twilight.

Silence always tickles me -
in a strange way;

I meet "me"
in the time between
sunset and darkness.

Khadija Rupa

#13. I'm searching for a shred of humanity in that shriveled tangle of arteries you call a heart.

Rachel Vincent

#14. It's so important to believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, and then pretty soon you get it.

Wally Amos

#15. Peace is a new father
Searching for a job
With courage and vigor
With a smile and rigor
But with a great need for money.

Debasish Mridha

#16. The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill ... The real enemy then is humanity itself.

Aurelio Peccei

#17. It is insanity to run from God and search for love.

Erwin McManus

#18. I see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something. A believer is someone who senses a consciousness or a direction and believes in it. The one who searches for meaning has not found the direction yet.

Aharon Appelfeld

#19. The more you strive and search for happiness, the more you overlook the possibility that it is here already.

Robert Holden

#20. Ormus liked to compose his own songs up on the flat roof of the apartment block, and spent eternities up there, lost within himself, searching for the points at which his inner life intersected the life of the greater world outside, and calling those points of intersection songs.

Salman Rushdie

#21. For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially why no one could look past the surface and figure out who I really was underneath.

Robin Wasserman

#22. I found my student of the year, and now Tata Nano is searching for India's student of the year

Karan Johar

#23. It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.

Bernie Siegel

#24. One keeps searching for ease, she did not say, and not finding it, till the memories of no-pain seem only like daydreams.

Robin McKinley

#25. However, he never understood why anyone would want to separate science, which is just a way of searching for what is true, from what we hold sacred, which are those truths that inspire love and awe.

Ann Druyan

#26. Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

Edward Weston

#27. The same numbness and disappointment every day sends some people looking for something tragic for proof of life.

Bryant McGill

#28. We're like the Three Musketeers, searching for truth and justice and the American way.:
Glitch snorted. More like the Three Blind Mice, stumbling around trying to find a hunk of cheese in the dark.

Darynda Jones

#29. So he left the lagoon and entered the jungle again, within a few days was completely lost, following the lagoons southward through the increasing rain and heat, attacked by alligators and giant bats, a second Adam searching for the forgotten paradises of the reborn Sun.

J.G. Ballard

#30. Never stop searching for new things in life.

Euginia Herlihy

#31. Searching for a perfect love is not easy to find,but having the love of our God is more perfect than what you have found.

David Archuleta

#32. What I'm searching for is the opposite of an intellectual, in other words, someone intelligent.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#33. Americans ... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.

Kurt Vonnegut

#34. To me, I think I'm just going to keep focused and forward on what I'm doing, work-wise, rather than searching for any kind of meaning in it.

Joel Edgerton

#35. Why in the world have we never found what we're really looking for? Because what we need is often the very thing we won't accept. And sadly, in turning away the God we need, we need to understand that we have chosen to live without everything we need.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#36. In the end we're all searching for our home, that one place where we belong.

Masiela Lusha

#37. When I was young, I couldn't imagine women of 60 falling in love. For one thing, people used to stay married; they weren't out in the jungle, searching for romance. Besides, these women just looked so ancient - permed hair, beige cardis.

Deborah Moggach

#38. What exists in this heart is not imaginary. This hand would not grasp air in trying to hold you, nor this eye blind itself in searching for you in vain.

Chrissy Moon

#39. That's what rock music is, I think - constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest as possible.

Jonathan Jackson

#40. If you're searching for the truth, throw out all your prejudices and just gather the facts. If you do that, you'll be able to see the real truth.

CLAMP

#41. Ballet became this escape for me. I feel like I was on my own a lot. I was searching for stability, so I was going off on my own and imagining what I thought stability was. Ballet became a way for me to cope.

Misty Copeland

#42. Instead of searching for what you want externally, concentrate on developing mental pictures of your desires. Surround these images with feelings of security, gratitude, and faith; and know that what you've been looking for is on its way to you right now.

Doreen Virtue

#43. I wanted my players to always be searching, especially for truth. I wanted them to know what they believed and be able to defend it. Truth will always stand the test of scrutiny.

John Wooden

#44. Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don't fool.

Robert Brault

#45. No one wants to wait for tracks to buffer or spend hours searching through a Web site to find their favorite song.

Daniel Ek

#46. We looked at each other in the half-light, searching for words that didn't exist.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#47. According to Kierkegaard, rather than searching for the Truth with a capital T, it is more important to find the kind of truths that are meaningful to the individual's life. It is important to find 'the truth for me'.

Jostein Gaarder

#48. In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown.

Ridley Scott

#49. I was emotionally and spiritually dried up, so I was just searching for God.

Scott Stapp

#50. You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourselves.

Terry Brooks

#51. I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map: and for those purposes the two cultures is about right.

C.P. Snow

#52. in the end we're all still searching for a Kingdom that is not of this world, how we are so desperate to be known, to be called.

Preston Yancey

#53. Allison Nelson, twenty-nine years old and engaged, a socialite, searching for answers she needed to know, and Noah Calhoun, the dreamer, thirty-one, visited by the ghost that had come to dominate his life.

Nicholas Sparks

#54. What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other beasts. In the process, we discover our shared identity.

Diane Ackerman

#55. Well I've been locking myself up in my house for some time now Reading and writing and reading and thinking and searching for reasons and missing the seasons The Autumn, the Spring, the Summer, the snow

Colleen Hoover

#56. Everyday that goes by I try to improve myself and searching for something that may even be impossible; perfection.

Anderson Silva

#57. It never occurs to us that looking for the definition, origin, and nature of consciousness
within the content of consciousness itself is the equivalent of searching
a movie for a view of the camera man.

William Tedford

#58. Our children do not need a makeover, they just need to be understood. If you understand their emotional needs now, you can save them a lifetime of searching for what they never had as a child.

Florence Littauer

#59. Rise above your circumstances, change the world one person at a time starting with you, and be the inspiration you've been searching for.

Lindsey Stirling

#60. There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.

Sylvia Plath

#61. Ninety percent of cancers are curable in stage one. We spend billions of dollars and over 40 years searching for a cure, and we're not really that close. So why aren't we teaching people the only cure we have now? Early detection is one sh**ty year, versus the rest of your life.

Yael Cohen

#62. If you were a star you'd be the one I'm searching for

Drake

#63. James Patterson, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, so far these are the best horror writers, but I will continue searching for other interesting horror and twisted writers even like James Wan.

Deyth Banger

#64. Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.

Alice Miller

#65. Humility in this business [acting] isn't just a matter of being polite, it's kind of a matter of survival. You can't ever afford to think that you're the bee's knees, because you could always afford to be better. You have to always be searching for something better.

Michael Shannon

#66. The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

Quentin Crisp

#67. The truth of the matter is that we've all got cracks in our spirits, and we have to remember they're only there because we need them ... Otherwise, how could God's grace filter in deep enough to give us the joy and peace we're all searching for in this world. It couldn't, plain and simple.

Delia Parr

#68. Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult

Rayvon L. Browne

#69. We're once again just a boy and a girl searching and failing for words and moments that transcend the mundane.

A.J. Compton

#70. If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.

Matthew Arnold

#71. Be patient and live with the knowledge that all you are searching for is certain to come if you prepare for it and expect it.

Robin S. Sharma

#72. When you form the habit of searching for the positive in every circumstance, your life will move into its highest dimensions.

Robin S. Sharma

#73. Psychologists are men with nothing in their own minds, searching in the minds of others for an idea-in order to kill it.

Harry Hooton

#74. If the past decade was the decade of searching and finding and looking for stuff, this coming decade is going to be the decade of filtering and going to your friends for recommendations.

Esther Dyson

#75. And we are all just a little broken, and just a little battered and just a little confused, searching for reason and for purpose

Anya

#76. I've been searching a long time for something I think I lost.
I felt like I found something when I saw you back there.

Marie Lu

#77. And must not all stories of brave lives and long endeavours and weary watching for the ideal so end, until all be ended?
I cannot tell you whether he found what he sought. I have told you that he sought it.

G.K. Chesterton

#78. We were a town full of fear, searching for answers. But we were also a town full of liars.

Megan Miranda

#79. Don't seek, let go & what you are searching for will find you.

Shilpa Menon

#80. Most of you, therefore, spend the bulk of your adult life searching for the "right" way to worship, to obey, and to serve God. The irony of all this is that I do not want your worship, I do not need your obedience, and it is not necessary for you to serve Me.

Neale Donald Walsch

#81. Well, it's not easy to find something that you do not know exists.

Patricia Nedelea

#82. If we have too much clarity, we might not be compelled to continue searching for new ideas.

Rirkrit Tiravanija

#83. I cleared my throat, searching for my voice. "There's a good chance you might be smarter than me."

That almost made her smile. "Nah, I just like being around you while you're still breathing.

Lisa Kessler

#84. I want it to stop," he said. "Sophie says everyone is still searching for a cure for me. I know I gave Will my permission, but I want everyone to cease looking now, Charlotte. It is over.

Cassandra Clare

#85. Every time I left our apartment to go searching for the lock, I became a little lighter, because I was getting closer to Dad. But I also became a little heavier, because I was getting farther from Mom.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#86. He rose up and looked down at her. "If I'd known you were out there, I would've begun searching for you thousands of years ago."
Her smile was soft and glorious. "That was the perfect response."
"It's the truth.

Donna Grant

#87. When you are searching for love, love is standing just outside the door. Just open the door and welcome the love.

Debasish Mridha

#88. Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there's nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.

China Mieville

#89. He lifted his head, staring into her eyes as if searching for something. Voice ragged, he said, "I told you I'm a possessive man, Eleri. I want to keep you, mount you, fill you, but even as I hold you like this... I am still your captive. Have mercy and tell me you'll have me.

Sandra Jones

#90. The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.

Carlos Fuentes

#91. Everyone, some sooner than others, must endure his or her own personal 'hell on earth.' It is important to keep searching for the small joys, although they are often the most elusive. Trust that these joys will appear, sometimes unexpectedly, and often in life's darkest moments.

Katie Gill

#92. It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope; there is no such society any more as the gods once supported.

Joseph Campbell

#93. Searching for the Truth through words and speech is like sticking your head in a bowl of glue.

Yuanwu Keqin

#94. Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never actually doing anything different, then pretty quickly the feeling will wear off and you'll start searching for another book to fill the void.

Aaron Swartz

#95. I'm always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis.

Rafael Nadal

#96. Oh yes! Smell how much I need you!" Taylor's hips bucked over and over, desperately searching for a part of their bodies to wet with her cream.

Lola Newmar

#97. I can't do everything for you. You must walk alone to find your soul.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#98. Deandre gazed at her like she was the stars, and he was a mere astronomer, searching her face for the constellations, admiring the beauty that was there

Aishabella Sheikh

#99. You know how I play it, better safe than sorry 'stead of searching for substance at every single party.

Drake

#100. If we blend efficiently democracy, demographic demand & demand, I believe that there will be a Vasco Da Gama on every street who will come searching for India.

Narendra Modi