Quests famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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You lie once.. you lie for the rest of your life... and in quest of proving your innocence.. you pledge your honesty with utter lies.... !!!
-- Abhijeet Sawant -
The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
-- Alan Hirsch -
Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
-- Alan Hirsch -
Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,'' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'
-- Alan Rickman -
No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
-- Angela Davis -
Purify your life by keeping the commandments. This will help you qualify for the Spirit, who will assist you in your quest.
-- Ann M. Dibb -
Those who have matured spiritually, now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives.
-- Arianna Huffington -
All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
SETI is probably the most important quest of our time , and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting it sufficiently.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate by the assembling of significant reliques, the march of the human spirit in its quest for beauty...
-- Arthur Davison Ficke -
The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.
-- Arthur Eddington -
In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve.
-- Arthur Eddington -
The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -
I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.
-- Bertrand Russell -
My kids listen to everything because I listen to everything, so it's not far-fetched to hear them playing Metallica and then playing A Tribe Called Quest or N.W.A.
-- Big Boi -
Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
-- Branford Marsalis -
Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.
-- Bret Lott -
I'm living my life as a journey. My quest is to make it better every year.
-- Cameron Diaz -
The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.
-- Carlo Petrini -
The quest for the truth, in and of itself, Is a story that's filled with insights.
-- Carolyn Porco -
Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
Do not undertake a scientific career in quest of fame or money. There are easier and better ways to reach them. Undertake it only if nothing else will satisfy you; for nothing else is probably what you will receive. Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward you will ask no other.
-- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin -
I'm on a quest to claim absolute victory on every front.
-- Charlie Sheen -
You are not alone in your quest to be who you want and have what you want.
-- Chris Prentiss -
Simply being with other people who are also seekers and who are involved in the same quest you are is very meaningful.
-- Dan Wakefield -
We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be "informavores", epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future.
-- Daniel Dennett -
Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest.
-- David Sanborn -
To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for truth, even before the first scrap has been found.
-- Deepak Chopra -
We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.
-- Dora Russell -
Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.
-- Dorothy Norman -
To me, photography is like a quest, or a pilgrimage, or a hunt. I love painting, I love music, but photography is what has allowed me to get outside of myself.
-- Edouard Boubat -
In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word.
-- Elie Wiesel -
Continue your quest by taking the test. Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?
-- Ernest Cline -
When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.
-- Ezra Taft Benson -
More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.
-- Francois Gautier -
Amid life's quests, there seems but worthy one: to do men good.
-- Gamaliel Bailey -
Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.
-- Gerry Spence -
WHAT is your name? WHAT is your quest? and WHAT is your favorite color?
-- Graham Chapman -
I've always been on a quest to use science in an artful way.
-- Greg Graffin -
Where man had been, in every place he left, garbage remained. Even in his pursuit of the ultimate truth and quest for his God, he produced garbage. By his garbage, which lay stratum upon stratum, he could always - one had only to dig - be known. For more long-lived than man is his refuse. Garbage alone lives after him.
-- Gunter Grass -
I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.
-- Gustave Courbet -
My death is very near to me, and of this I am glad, for I desire to pursue the quest in other realms, as it has been promised to me that I shall do.
-- H. Rider Haggard -
The quest for God is the quest for true happiness.
-- Harold Klemp -
The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
-- Hendrik Willem van Loon -
Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.
-- Henry Vaughan -
Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.
-- Howard Cosell -
A mediator is an impartial outsider who tries to aid the negotiators in their quest to find a compromise agreement.
-- Howard Raiffa -
No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly, our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of the earth to the things of heaven.
-- Hugh Nibley -
Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or . . . he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority as the intermediary between himself and Revelation.
-- Ibn Arabi -
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
-- Immanuel Kant -
In the quest for fortune and fame...don't forget about the simple things.
-- India.Arie -
Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.
-- Irving Babbitt -
Forget purpose. It’s okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.
-- James Altucher -
...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
-- James Jeans -
The first quest or the first love is also the last. The second isn't.
-- James Richardson -
Love is the eternal quest: almost everyone wants to love and be loved.
-- Jay McInerney -
I am always in quest of being open to what the universe will bring me.
-- Jill Bolte Taylor -
Passivity is the dragon every woman has to murder in her quest for independence.
-- Jill Johnston -
Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but theres no conscious part of Catholicism in my life.
-- Joan Van Ark -
I'm always on the quest for something delicious and healthful.
-- Joely Fisher -
Sir,-The Planet [Neptune] whose position you marked out actually exists. On the day on which your letter reached me, I found a star of the eighth magnitude, which was not recorded in the excellent map designed by Dr. Bremiker, containing the twenty-first hour of the collection published by the Royal Academy of Berlin. The observation of the succeeding day showed it to be the Planet of which we were in quest.
-- Johann Gottfried Galle -
Educators must resist the quest for certainty. If there were certainty there would be no scientific advancement. So it is with morals and patriotism.
-- John Goodlad -
In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.
-- John Mayer -
How to obtain freedom has been, and is, mankind's most important quest.
-- John Pugsley -
What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall the fields and vallies, which a beneficent God has formed to teem with the life of innumerable multitudes, be condemned to everlasting barrenness?
-- John Quincy Adams -
The quest for simplicity has to pervade every part of the process. It really is fundamental.
-- Jonathan Ive -
The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
-- Joseph Campbell -
Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.
-- Julia Cameron -
It's a rare memoir that can tell a story that seems brand new, but Nina Here Nor There does it. This one-of-a-kind narrator undertakes a quest that is unmistakably timely. But in its yearning for awareness and connection, this book feels timeless.
-- K. M. Soehnlein -
I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
-- Kailash Satyarthi -
It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth.
-- Karl Popper -
Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.
-- Kate DiCamillo -
I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss.
-- Katy Lederer -
Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity.
-- Kenneth Scott Latourette -
They taught me that all life forms are important to each other in our common quest for happiness and survival. That there is more to life than just yourself, your own family, or your own kind.
-- Lawrence Anthony -
For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.
-- Leland Ryken -
By realizing that we are ignorant of the most important things, we realize at the same time that the most important thing for us, or the one thing needful, is quest for knowledge of the most important things or quest for wisdom.
-- Leo Strauss -
It is true that the successful quest for wisdom might lead to the result that wisdom is not the one thing needful. But this result would owe its relevance to the fact that it is the result of the quest for wisdom: the very disavowal of reason must be reasonable disavowal.
-- Leo Strauss -
You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.
-- Lev Grossman -
He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
-- Lev Grossman -
I didn't want to make a man the No. 1 quest in my life.
-- Linda Evans -
The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold -
Always engage in the quest for life's meaning, which is inner peace.
-- Longchenpa -
Every man's life is, consciously or unconsciously, a quest for the infinite and the eternal reality.
-- Lyman Abbott -
No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
-- Lyndon B. Johnson -
In God there is no duality. In that Presence "I" and "we" and "you" do not exist. "I" and "you" and "we" and "He" become one.... Since in the Unity there is no distinction, the Quest and the Way and the Seeker become one.
-- Mahmud Shabistari -
I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.
-- Margaret Bourke-White -
In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by the slightest breeze. It is spirit, such as it is, which led me to poetry, at first little more than a pastime, then the full business of my life. There have been times when my spirit, so dejected, almost gave up the quest, other times when it was proud, triumphant. So it has been from the very start, never finding peace with itself, always doubting the worth of what it makes.
-- Matsuo Basho -
Christ said, The Truth shall make you free, but Truth is not found once and forever. Truth is eternal, and the quest for Truth must also be eternal.
-- Max Heindel -
He had been through a good deal in the course of the Great Quest — he had seen beautiful things and horrible things — but up until now he had not known that one and the same creature can be both, that beauty can be terrifying.
-- Michael Ende -
I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.
-- Michele Bachmann -
Always remember, joy is not incidental to spiritual quest. It is vital.
-- Nachman of Breslov -
Quests always have their ups and downs,' rumbled the giant. 'The point is never to give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way to the bottom.
-- Nancy Farmer -
The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.
-- Nate Silver -
Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
-- Naveen Jain -
Once something is answered, then there's another question. Hence the eternal quest.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
The anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945, but also on what they revealed: that humans, in their dedicated quest to extend their capacities for destruction, had finally found a way to approach the ultimate limit.
-- Noam Chomsky
