Quotes with quest

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  • Erich Fromm The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Bill Bryson Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason 'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Joseph Brodsky 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
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Branford Marsalis 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
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Busta Rhymes I wanted to make something that reminded people of the way albums used to feel. I wanted something as good as the stuff put out by the Bomb Squad, or Dr. Dre and his production crew, or 'A Tribe Called Quest.' I miss albums like those.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Alan Cohen If you are losing your peace in your quest for peace, you are not on the road to peace. The road to peace is peace.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Angela Davis In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Barry Gibb It's very questionable, and 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.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill 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
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Helen Rowland Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Bryan Greenberg My dad is from Queens. I remember visiting as a kid. My grandparents grew up here. All the actors I respected were coming out of here. All the hip-hop I was listening to - Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, Biggie, Wu Tang - was coming out of New York. I'm just into it.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Angela Davis 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
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Eugene Wilson 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 Wilson
     
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  • Bernard Beckett Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.
    Bernard Beckett
    New Zealand writer (1967 - )
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  • Heinrich Suso Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.
    Heinrich Suso
     
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin 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
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Norman Cousins The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
    Source: Human Options (1981)
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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