Quest Quotes
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I told you, everyone understands a quest.
Sarah Dessen -
One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness, a glowing obsession to surmount every obstacle, to find Frodo, destroy the Ring, and cleanse Middle Earth of its festering malignancy. He knew he would try again. Fail, perhaps. And try once more. A thousand, thousand times if need be, but he would not give up the quest.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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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 -
Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the US has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable. What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.
Angela Davis -
Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition.
Albert Einstein -
The only true and lasting inspiration for life is genuine love for God, and submitted gratitude that I get to be a part of the redemptive quest.
John Ortberg -
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
Immanuel Kant -
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
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The mind, after being confined at home for a while, sends the imagination abroad in quest of new treasures; and the body may as well accompany it...
Hannah Webster Foster -
To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.
Plato -
Your quest is powerful. You needn’t apologize for the space it takes.
Barbara O'Neal -
We are content in the 'given' in sensation's quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
My life has been a quest for knowledge and understanding, and I am nowhere near having achieved that. And it doesn't bother me in the least. I will die without having come up with the answers to many things in life.
Alex Trebek -
Children are natural practitioners of the Queer and the Questing, for childhood is nothing but a quest through a queer country. Of course, they often have a good deal of trouble with the Quiet.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Love, when it is a sacred quest, is a space of resurrection and repair. It does more than help us survive a soulless world; it helps us to transform.
Marianne Williamson -
I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.
Robert Frost -
Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it is an ancient quest.
Sarah Ban Breathnach -
It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable.
Rene Descartes -
Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The realm of Suaron is ended! The Ring-bearer has fulfilled his Quest.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Sometimes I wish that this quest had not come to me. Justice is an impossible beast to track. The trail is lonely, and she offers no reward when she's caught but the promise of another hunt.
Courtney Milan -
The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.
Mahatma Gandhi -
'Quest' is a romantic name for journey, and I think 'fire' is a word that has stimulating connotations for all of us.
Everett McGill -
Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?
Rumi