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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.
Men
,
Nothing
,
Hard
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
H. P. Lovecraft
Religion
,
Truth
,
True
I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.
Hillary Clinton
Hair
,
Changing
,
Amuse
The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
Dag Hammarskjold
Him
,
Destiny
,
Started
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
Love
,
Loneliness
,
Human
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
Meaning
,
Search
,
Condition
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
E. O. Wilson
Alone
,
Failure
,
Successful
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
Knowledge
,
Become
,
Discovery
I need more friends. It's kind of like my quest right now just to have more true friends.
Miley Cyrus
True
,
Friends
Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.
Bryant H. McGill
Love
,
Self
,
Humility
If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.
William Shatner
Tomorrow
,
Read
,
Books
Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other.
Liam Neeson
Accepting
,
Tolerant
,
Kinsey
Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.
George Lucas
Reality
,
Whatever
,
Happened
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
Emile M. Cioran
Truth
,
Fear
,
Deceived
The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?
Anne Rice
Find
,
Whole
,
Meaning
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland
Love
,
Marriage
,
Divorce
The spiritual quest was always the predominant aspect of my life. It's always been there. But there's also an incredible passion connected to it; it's not just a dry investigative process. I have been extremely emotional about it, and that comes out in the songs.
Cat Stevens
Life
,
Spiritual
,
Emotional
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
Norman Cousins
Loneliness
,
Human
,
Individual
The thing is, I have a zillion apps, and I'm always looking for the perfect arrangement for them, so scrambling my home screen is part of that eternal quest.
Susan Orlean
Home
,
Perfect
,
Looking
The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.
Silvia Cartwright
Peace
,
Home
,
School
In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.
John Mayer
Love
,
Clever
,
Forgot
It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.
Spike Lee
Black
,
Down
,
Here
With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.
Justin Sane
Failure
,
American
,
President
Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
Jeanette Winterson
Life
,
Heart
,
Find
There's a whole form of literature in India which talks about the quest for the perfect man by a woman, where every woman looks for a perfect man but only ends up with half that.
Shahrukh Khan
Woman
,
Perfect
,
Whole
To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.
Jack Kemp
Government
,
Acceptance
,
Give
I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.
Ringo Starr
Life
,
Time
,
Learning
I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.
Dan Brown
Work
,
Spiritual
,
Learn
Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life.
Thomas Friedman
Life
,
Time
,
Two
We will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.
Robin Gibb
Life
,
Second
,
Hours
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