Quests Quotes - Page 14

• Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men's treasures are not yours.

  Anne Rice

  Men, Sea, Darkness

  Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.156, Ballantine Books

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• 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.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Philosophy, Justice, Violence

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• Competition is about passion for perfection, and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest.

  Mariah Nelson

  Passion, People, Perfection

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• See not perfection in self. Seek it not in others. One being a false perceptionThe other, an endless quest.

  Mary Summer Rain

  Self, Perfection, Endless

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• O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Gold, Vain, Chimera

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1906). “Note Books: Arranged and Rendered Into English, with Introd”

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• We stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf , as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective - a new world order - can emerge: a new era - freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace. An era in which the nations of the world, East and West, North and South, can prosper and live in harmony.

  George H. W. Bush

  Moving, Unique, Opportunity

  George H. W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft (2011). “A World Transformed”, p.370, Vintage

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• I have more understanding, more compassion. I am on a much more important quest for the truth than any of you. You just don't want me to be president.

  Hillary Clinton

  Compassion, Understanding, Important

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Progress, Determined

  Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Program, delivered 12 September 1962, Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas

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• In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.

  Willa Cather

  Desire, Might, Way

  Willa Cather (1938). “The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather ...”

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• So I think the Guru can be a delusion. But everything can be deluding. The thing central about the Guru in the West is that he represents an alien principle of the spirit, namely, that you don't follow your own path; you follow a given path. And that's totaly contrary to the Western Spirit! Our spirituality is of the individual quest, individual realization- authenticity in your life out of your own center. So you must take the message of the East, assimilate it to your own dimension and to your own thrust of life, and not get pulled off track.

  Joseph Campbell

  Thinking, Track, Realization

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• Life has to be in the moment, spontaneous and venerable. There isn't any winning or losing. Life itself, as it flowers in depth and subtlety, is the reward, and it isn't always an easy or fun process. We must learn to see that the issue of happiness is irrelevant. The relevant quest is the expansion of consciousness.

  Richard Moss

  Fun, Flower, Winning

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• The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty and both - precision and certainty are impossible to attain.

  Karl Popper

  Impossible, Precision, Certainty

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• The rationale for loving others is the recognition of the simple fact that every living being has the same right to and the same desire for happiness, and not suffering, and the consideration that you as one individual are one life unit as compared with the mulititude of others in their ceaseless quest for happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Simple, Suffering, Desire

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• Sometimes my life has been Odyssean - landing on strange islands of consciousness and reality and meeting very curious monsters who turn out to be very great teachers. Sometimes my life has been a quest for a grail of knowledge and education. Like Parsifal, my life has been a quest to pierce the veil, stumbling along but eventually finding it.

  Jean Houston

  Teacher, Reality, Islands

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• This might be a controversial thing to suggest, but in a quest to understand and relate to terrorism or school shootings, sometimes it feels like it's real, the appeal. As we've seen with ISIS, it's not always the devout who are getting into it; it's just people looking for a sense of belonging. The more they feel they're up against, the more intensity the cause has. It's an epic clash of cultures, and both sides are playing that up, but it's human beings disaffected, detached, and lonely.

  Andrew Bird

  Lonely, Real, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that obviously the quest for purpose, or meaning, or understanding to existence is something that I always think about, always deal with. I guess everybody does - that existential crisis of human condition. It's nothing new. But I'd love to come across something that really made me believe in something.

  Conor Oberst

  Believe, Thinking, Understanding

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Mankind is engaged in an eternal quest for that ‘something else' he hopes will bring him happiness, complete and unending.For those individual souls who have sought and found God, the search is over: He is that Something Else.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Soul, Individual, Found

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1974). “Self-realization”

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• The process of gathering spiritual light is the quest of a lifetime.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Spiritual, Light, Gathering

  Twitter post from Nov 12, 2014

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• My philosophy is that once you get people compelled enough to sit down and play the game, the whole way you make the game successful is by giving them enough unique ways to do things. First, let them deal with pulling levers and things like that for a while. Then after they've mastered that, you give them something else to do, like getting through doorways by blasting them down with a cannon Next, you give them a monster-finding quest, followed by logic problems to figure out. You pace it that way. Assorted activities and the diversity of activities are what makes a game rich in my mind.

  Richard Garriott

  Philosophy, Successful, Unique

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• Ashton Ford will come as something of a surprise to those of you who have been with me over the years. This is not the same type of fiction that established my success as a novelist; Ford is not a gutbuster and he is not trying to save the world from anything but its own confusion. There are no grenade launchers or rockets to solve his problems and he is more of a lover than a fighter. I have grown, I hope, both as a person and as a writer, and I needed another vehicle to carry the creative quest. Ashton Ford is that vehicle.

  Don Pendleton

  Years, Confusion, Creative

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• Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish.

  Paul Schullery

  Fishing, Wonder, Pursuit

  Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.35, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Jude [Law] is really good at playing an obsessive. He has a very watchable quality when he's on a quest for something.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Law, Quality, Obsessive

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• Amid life's quests, there seems but worthy one: to do men good.

  Gamaliel Bailey

  Men, Worthy, Seems

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• 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

  Steps, Agendas, Movement

  "Farrakhan causes new controversy as march approaches". www.cnn.com. October 14, 1995.

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• It dances today, my heart,
  like a peacock it dances,
  it dances.
  It sports a mosaic of passions like a peacock’s tail,
  It soars to the sky with delight, it quests,
  Oh wildly, it dances today, my heart,
  like a peacock it dances.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Sports, Passion, Heart

  Rabindranath Tagore (1986). “Selected poems”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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