“I have climbed highest mountains,I have run through the field,only to be with you.I have run,I have crawled,I have scaled these city walls,only to be with you.But I still haven't found what I'm looking for”
"I still haven't found what I'm looking for"
Lyrics, The Joshua Tree (1987)
Context: I have climbed highest mountains, I have run through the field, only to be with you. I have run, I have crawled, I have scaled these city walls, only to be with you. But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
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Irish rock musician, singer of U2 1960Related quotes
Guy Finley (1949) American self-help writer, philosopher, and spiritual teacher, and former professional songwriter and musician
Secrets of Being Unstoppable
“What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run.”
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
As quoted in Memoirs of Count Miot de Melito (1788 - 1815) as translated by Frances Cashel Hoey and John Lillie (1881), Vol. II, p. 94
Context: What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. Do you imagine that I triumph in Italy in order to aggrandise the pack of lawyers who form the Directory, and men like Carnot and Barras? What an idea!
Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Quoted as an attribution in Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (2013), p. 268
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“I run blindly through the madhouse… And I cannot even pray… For I have no God.”
Grant Morrison (1960) writer
Source: Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
“I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.”
Babe Ruth (1895–1948) American baseball player
As quoted in Baseball's Greatest Quotes (1982) by Kevin Nelson; reproduced in "Morning Briefing: Babe Ruth Was Not a Superstitious Man, Except on 714 Occasions," in The Los Angeles Times (March 1, 1982), p. D2
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Just one.Whenever I hit a home run, I make certain I touch all four bases.
I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte book The Vocation of Man
Wenn ich nur dasjenige weiß, und von ihm überzeugt bin, was ich selbst gefunden, – nur dasjenige wirklich kenne, was ich selbst erfahren habe, so kann ich in der That nicht sagen, daß ich über meine Bestimmung das Geringste wisse; ich weiß blos, was Andre darüber zu wissen behaupten.
Source: The Vocation of Man (1800), P. Preuss, trans. (1987), p. 4
“I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people.”
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767–1794) military and political leader
On declaring the Minister of War, Charles François Dumouriez, a traitor (March 1793). [Source: David William Bates, Enlightenment aberrations: error and revolution in France (Cornell University Press, 2002), p. 169]
