#searching

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#character #consists #consuming #deliberately #describe

When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion. ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

#delusion #famous #full #ham #i

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge. ↗

— Jack LaLanne

#bored #get #keep #knew #know

I had just broken up with my wife so I was searching for another way to live. ↗

— Michael Davis

#another way #broken #had #i #just

The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#college #companies #could #educated #enough

Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions. ↗

— Helen Garner

#arrive #book #decisions #felt #how

We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure. ↗

— Jena Malone

#feel #form #foundation #place #safe

Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature. ↗

— Franz Marc

#behind #hidden #inner #look #nature

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing. ↗

— David McCullough

#comes #just #keep #point #researching

When I came out publicly, some photo editors had a field day searching for pictures of me with a limp wrist or some other stereotypical gay signifier - as though, after decades in the public eye, they'd suddenly come across a trove of shots where I looked like a Cher impersonator. ↗

— James McGreevey

#after #came #cher #come #day