80 Grail Quotes

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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

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No journey is too great, when one finds what one seeks. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part. — Philip Yancey

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall. — Annie Dillard

The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! — Danny Kaye

In a moment of grace, we can grasp eternity in the palm of our hand. This is the gift given to creative individuals who can identify with the mysteries of life through art. — Marcel Marceau

He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire. — Ignatius of Antioch

The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute. — Omar Khayyam

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected. — Jonathan Edwards

The noblest search is the search for excellence. — Lyndon B. Johnson

The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell. — Omar Khayyam

Grace is available for each of us every day -- our spiritual daily bread -- but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests. — Ida Tarbell

It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up. — Richard Rohr

Short Grail Quotes

  • The holy grail of habit change is not a single 1 percent improvement, but a thousand of them. — James Clear
  • Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. — Graham Chapman
  • What have the Romans ever done for us? — John Cleese
  • I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas. — Ben Nicholson
  • Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering. — Douglas Crockford
  • Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. — Graham Chapman
  • The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it. — Banksy
  • Gross National Product is our Holy Grail. — Stewart Udall
  • The Grail is the womb of the beloved. — Robert Anton Wilson
  • Golf's Holy Grail - a genius course. — Johnny Miller

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Holy Grail Quotes

I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries. — Graham Chapman

People influence people. Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend. A trusted referral influences people more than the best broadcast message. A trusted referral is the Holy Grail of advertising. — Mark Zuckerberg

If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win. — Mike Krzyzewski

The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression. — William Vickrey

slept all night in the cedar grove, i was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin' for the holy grail, but there ain't nothin' sweeter than ridin' the rails — Tom Waits

We are no longer the knights who say Ni! We are now the knights who say ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoom-boing! — Graham Chapman

The Holy Grail of neuroscience has been to understand how and where information is encoded in the brain. — Thomas R. Insel

Relevance is a search engine's holy grail. People want results that are closely connected to their queries. — Marc Ostrofsky

The holy grail for a music fan, I think, is to hear music from another planet, which has not been influenced by us whatsoever. — Aphex Twin

The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we can reduce per capita costs. — Donald Berwick

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The holy grail for a music fan is to hear music from another planet, which has not been influenced by us whatsoever. Or, even better, from lots of different planets. The closest we got to that was before the Internet, when people didn't know of each other's existence. Now, that doesn't really happen. — Aphex Twin

The key to the Grail is compassion, 'suffering with,' feeling another's sorrow as if it were your own. The one who finds the dynamo of compassion is the one who's found the Grail. — Joseph Campbell

The object of life is not happiness, but to serve God or the Grail. All of the Grail quests are to serve God. If one understands this and drops his idiotic notion that the meaning of life is personal happiness, then one will find that elusive quality immediately at hand. — Robert A. Johnson

Bargains are the holy grail of the true stockpicker. The fact that 10 to 30 percent of our net worth is lost in a market sell-off is of little consequence. We see the latest correction not as a disaster but as an opportunity to acquire more shares at low prices. This is how great fortunes are made over time. — Peter Lynch

The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is the answer. . . It's the world of people living inauthentic lives - doing what they are supposed to do. — Joseph Campbell

The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine. — Eric Topol

True cultural connection is the Holy Grail for brands if they want to create an enduring emotional relationship with people. — Albert Chmielowski

The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers-by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work-is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility. — Aleister Crowley

It [Cambridge] wasn't a holy grail in the sense that I'd never been to Cambridge. But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful. — Alan Bennett

Sleep is like the holy grail. My trainer says if you're tired, your workout will suffer. Sleep is magic stuff. — Kate Beckinsale

The path between intention to watch a movie and the purchase of a ticket - I want to make it as short as possible. The holy grail is Amazon One Click. One tap and I own it. — Gerry Lopez

Junk bonds are the Holy Grail for hostile takeovers. — Roger Miller

We all been playing those mind games forever, Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil, Doing the mind guerrilla, Some call it magic the search for the grail. Love is the answer and you know that for sure, Love is a flower you got to let it grow... — John Lennon

I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away! — Graham Chapman

Sir Beldevere: What makes you think she's a witch? Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a newt! Sir Beldevere: A newt? Peasant 3: [meekly after a long pause] ... I got better. Crowd: [shouts] Burn her anyway! — Graham Chapman

When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled. — Graham Chapman

These books can't possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all time." Faukman's eyes went wide. "Don't tell me Harry Potter is actually about the Holy Grail." "I was referring to the Bible." Faukman cringed. "I knew that. — Dan Brown

The search of the Holy Grail or the voyage towards a new continent never enlisted so much energy and so much faith as does this pursuit of youth by old age. It is a race not of the fleet but of the most credulous. — Elisabeth Marbury

The stock exchange is a poor substitute for the Holy Grail. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

In the end what will prevail is your passion not your tale, for love is the Holy Grail. — Tom Robbins

The gods know what's important, what's wrong about you. They know everything. If you go out searching for the Holy Grail, they won't let you find it. — Tom Spanbauer

There's no messiahs out here, baby, but I found the holy grail alright. Cause I'm lying in your arms tonight. — Marc Cohn

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's not being noticed. — Steve Sabol

Well can I just make a point about the numbers because people talk a lot about police numbers as if police numbers are the holy grail. But actually what matters is what those police are doing. It's about how those police are deployed. — Theresa May

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