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
The noblest search is the search for excellence. — Lyndon B. Johnson
No journey is too great,
when one finds what one seeks. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all he has. It is the pearl of great price to by which the merchant will sell all his goods. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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
The thing we tell of can never be found be seeking, yet only seekers find it. — Bayazid Bastami
To dream the impossible dream, to reach the unreachable star! — Joe Darion
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. — Saint Augustine
Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be drawn. — Christopher Columbus
Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love. — Anais Nin
To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering. — Clive Cussler
Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross. — Thomas Malory
A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding. — Jackie Kennedy
One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself. — Claude M. Bristol
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. — Matthew Arnold
Finding Nirvana is like locating silence. — Jack Kerouac
Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.
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
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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
Holiness is not the way to Crisht; Christ is the way to holiness.
I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas. — Ben Nicholson
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
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
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
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering. — Douglas Crockford
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
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
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
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. — Graham Chapman
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 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 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
Golf's Holy Grail - a genius course. — Johnny Miller
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
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
People tweet me all the time and tell me how much they love it, how they can't wait for the show to come back on, that they're addicted to the show. So that's really rewarding. As an artist, we're all looking for that connection to an audience and when you find people as diehard as our fans are - it's sort of like finding the holy grail. — Glen Mazzara
Quitting the show was a complete anomaly in my life and my career. I've never missed out on anything. I relished the opportunity to be on Broadway... It's the holy grail for people like me. — Jeremy Piven
Comedy is easy for me, but with drama, I don't know... it's still the Holy Grail. — Ricky Gervais
We did Holy Grail, and I got my name up there as one of the directors. After that, I started moving more and more down the line I wanted to, which was making movies. — Terry Gilliam
That's the Holy Grail right now for the whole media industry, and so that's where most of our efforts are going to: How do we get people to pay for this, and to continue to pay for it as there's more and more competition for their attention? — Maria Rodale
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