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Search has become that thing that we lost and now we've found again. It's a Prodigal Son.


Jonathan Gaw

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BIBLE The back door beckons to a prodigal son.
MICHAEL DAVIDOW Ironically, it was the father's blessing that actually "financed" the prodigal son's trip away from ...
TOMMY TENNEY once you become a cheat its hard to stop but when you found that one person that means the most to y...
STACEY EVANS South Sudan, and indeed the whole Sudan, has lost its blood son.
SALVA KIIR MAYARDIT My son got a gift card for Christmas, then he lost it and he just found it yesterday. And now we're ...
BRENDA SULLIVAN Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is s...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is s...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is s...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Search is now more than a web destination and a few words plugged into a box. Search is a mode, a me...
JOHN BATTELLE We want to search things that may be overlooked. We need to search and re-search again.
MADE MANGKU PASTIKA Perhaps . . . our lot on the earth is to seek and to search. Now and again we find just enough to en...
JEAN TOOMER And most days she is lost;
The kind of lost that isn't supposed to be found again.
MAHNOOR NASEER If a man is miser, he will certainly have a prodigal son.
VIKRANT PARSAI I don't wish to imply that there aren't good things about you or that you're not an extraordinary pe...
GEORGE TSARGAS "NOW THAT IT'S OVER" My whole 'WWE' career has been rebuilding myself and finding the confidence that I once had....
BECKY LYNCH Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had falle...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had falle...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As ...
WHITLEY STRIEBER It was his home now. But it could not be his home till he had gone from it and returned to it. Now h...
G.K. CHESTERTON And, in the darkness, David closed his eyes as all that was lost was found again.
JOHN CONNOLLY Lost time is never found again.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Lost time is never found again.
JOHN H. AUGHEY Lost time is never found again.
PROVERB Was lost but now I'm found... God predestined to save His lost; not us freely choosing Christ.. Salv...
NORM TOMLINSON What has he found who has lost God?
And what has he lost who has found God?
IBN 'ATA'ILLAH AL-ISKANDARI Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now cho...
HANS URS VON BALTHASAR I think every team has a prodigal son, probably. What he's given to the city as much as what he's gi...
PAT RILEY It's been interesting, in a little bit less than nine months weve gone from trying to convince peopl...
JOHN HOGAN Lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics
ALBERT SCHWEITZER It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive agai...
BIBLE We lost our Alan so senselessly. And we just don't understand it. I mean, this happens to other peop...
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HORACE MANN Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is ...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Weve had some moral victories this season. Weve had one-goal losses against teams that did a number ...
EVA LANG I imagine an America that can actually change. That we become a nation that prospers again but witho...
RICHARD SCHIFF An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
KAHLIL GIBRAN An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper
KAHLIL GIBRAN Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea...
DEYTH BANGER Jonathan is the real deal. A couple of times, he has made some runs that has brought the entire team...
MIKE BELLOTTI Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trem...
HANNAH MORE Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trem...
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PATRICK DEMPSEY [Connie Miller said she lost her husband and her son - who was raised a Christian - on June 14, 2004...
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CHAD SMITH Don't count on me to take you in because I'm angry. I'm angry at you for leading us on such a song a...
ANNE TYLER Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
KHALIL GIBRAN It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has be...
HANNAH ARENDT Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and ...
BIBLE I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of ...
MARGUERITE YOUNG The challenge for the search vendors has been to transform the search experience found on a PC to a ...
STEVE ARNOLD I got my son, Now i want to hunt his mother. The search will begun soon.
SATHESH KUMAR M Moments, when lost, can't be found again. They're just gone.
JENNY HAN Jonathan has been a star of the company for a generation and we are all thrilled that he will remain...
TONY HALL Regarding the fitness craze: America has lost its soul; now it's trying to save its body.
GEORGE CARLIN Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.
G.K. CHESTERTON ..And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive
KEITH URBAN Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
GORE VIDAL One example is the familiar parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32), which in some ways might be...
JAROSLAV PELIKAN Spirituality, religion and its proponents are supposed to throw light into our lives. But the intens...
DR. VINOD B. NAIR To become a pandemic the virus has to go through a number of mutation barriers and from what we have...
FREDERICK LEUNG I realise now that I wanted to disappear. To get so lost that nobody ever found me. To go so far awa...
JESSICA WARMAN The world economy has lost much of its momentum and that has affected us too.
MANFRED SCHNEIDER I dont really think its all that settled yet, ... Weve got a good group of guys, though. Im sure eve...
AARON KATZ We lost clothes and stuff like that. Now, we've lost everything.
BILLY HILL Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
DEAN ACHESON It is impossible to imagine that humanity has suddenly become blind and has really lost the consciou...
WLADYSLAW ANDERS You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.
RAY BRADBURY The Son of God became man so that we might become God.
ATHANASIUS We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife...
JOSEPH ROUX We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife...
JOSEPH ROUX When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how t...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE It's vital that we try to keep cricket going in Zimbabwe, but these are professional sportsmen who h...
CLIVE FIELD We have a cushion now that Hamburg has lost. There are still a few matches to play, but the pressure...
FELIX MAGATH Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninh...
JULES VERNE Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.
We decide to go out walking the wh...
TEGAN QUIN We haven't made that much progress since December because of patent problems. We sort of lost six mo...
MARC BLANCHET It's not a born-again thing; it was a peaceful, really, really cool moment where I just felt tha...
JEFF FISHER We are saddened that the illegal electronic surveillance that once targeted that great American has ...
BILL GOODMAN I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.
RUSH LIMBAUGH I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.
DORIS LESSING The management and board of directors of Interchange believe that the launch of the Local.com has be...
HEATH CLARKE A gambler, a convict, a wayward son, a lost Grisha, a Suli girl who had become a killer, a boy from ...
LEIGH BARDUGO While other global media companies are struggling with transition and the search for strategic and s...
GUNTER THIELEN It's worth all the pain,
Now that I found myself back in your arms again.
JAMES REID One thing we seem to be missing is that just as we no longer search for the news, the news finds us ...
ERIK QUALMAN And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye h...
BIBLE the strange thing is that when a word is well established as a swear word, it seems to lose its orig...
GEORGE ORWELL He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may m...
JORGE LUIS BORGES To become a novelist, the most crucial thing one must do is read, read and read again - gradually yo...
AVI Since my visit to the Hermitage, I had become more aware of the four figures, two women and two men,...
HENRI J.M. NOUWEN You never depart from us, but yet, only with difficulties do we return to You.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Once a person learns to read the signs of love and thus to believe it, love leads him into the open ...
HANS URS VON BALTHASAR The fatted calf, the best Scotch, the hoedown could all have been his too, any time he asked for the...
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JONATHAN SWIFT They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
JONATHAN SWIFT What some invent the rest enlarge.
JONATHAN SWIFT I heard the little bird say so.
JONATHAN SWIFT A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign p...
JONATHAN SWIFT Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.
JONATHAN SWIFT So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller sti...
JONATHAN SWIFT A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
JONATHAN SWIFT In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent ...
JONATHAN SWIFT A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.
JONATHAN SWIFT He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be p...
JONATHAN SWIFT Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts wit...
JONATHAN SWIFT Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is...
JONATHAN SCHATTKE Necessity is the mother of invention.
JONATHAN SWIFT It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the ...
JONATHAN SWIFT That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that th...
JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
JONATHAN SWIFT It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguishe...
JONATHAN SWIFT We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT