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The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness. – Norman Cousins	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest. – Helen Rowland	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise. – Daniel J. Boorstin	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us. – Daniel J. Boorstin	added by anonymous 10 years ago
As an author I found it fascinating interviewing luminaries of the jazz world for over 15 years, beginning with a phone call from Red Rodney on a Thanksgiving Day in 1989 and then a phone call from Stan Getz on Christmas Day; their comments set in motion the quest to write a book about my first husband, Al Haig, the chosen pianist of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie (who gave me the moniker 'Lady Haig' one blustery cold night outside of Birdland on a January night) - and later Stan Getz.” – Grange Lady Haig Rutan	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul. – Joseph Brodsky	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. The Negro all over the South must come to the point that he can say to his white brother: We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by pure capacity to suffer. – Martin Luther King, Jr.	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in. – Stephen Hawking	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Until one nation ceases its attempts to dominate another, there will never be true freedom. Until one religion relinquishes its quest to prove its god superior to that of another, there shall never be world peace. We will never truly prosper or experience lasting harmony, until we refrain from preaching the gospel of our own moral values and our personal preferences by forcing it upon others. – Anthon St Maarten	added by anonymous 11 years ago
In our quest for wisdom, we should care lest we lose our humanity along the way – Ahmed Korayem	added by anonymous 11 years ago
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. – Anna Louise Strong	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Success is quest that will take me a life time to fulfill but it is worth the wait... – Teddy Carroll	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. – Mahatma Gandhi	added by anonymous 13 years ago
My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential. – Real Live Preacher	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. – Eugene S. Wilson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child. – Laurens Van der Post	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions. – Sam Keen	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it. – Rmy de Gourmont	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own. – Harold Bloom	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. – Mahatma Gandhi	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In our quest to become more social, and intelligent, Are we, human kind becoming socially inept due to our own technology. Is our technology making the world smaller? … or driving us from social interaction?” – Larry Levesque	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. – Martin Luther King, Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. – Erich Fromm	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. – Anna Louise Strong	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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