The absence of Goethe, eased out by the likes of Marlene Dietrich, is suggestive of an insistent national quest: to get people to think differently about Germany.
He begins his quest, as he comes to think of it, in the moat of his own old house in Suffolk, breaststroking through a thunderstorm, experiencing a "frog's eye view of rain on the moat" and watching each raindrop as it "exploded in a momentary, bouncing fountain that turned into a bubble and burst".
Dr. Michael Fisch, interim chairman of general oncology for the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, says that before patients embark on a quest for information, they need to think about their goals and how they might react to information overload.
It is very tempting to think in the quest for that something a little bit extra – to make runners-up into winners – he has it.
He said he was watching the American people absorbed in a new president, forgetting him, forgetting, he feared, even the great civil rights laws that he had passed, and was beginning to think that his quest for immortality had been in vain.
I began to think that my quest was in vain.
[Visitors] are inspired to think about humankind's quest for progress, and about making our world work better, today".
"Roger was on a personal quest to understand him, I think".
However, I'm personally on a quest to tame what I think is the most elusive beast of all: "calories in".
For five years since my first book, Al Qaeda's Great Escape: the Military and the Media on Terror's Trail, I've traveled through the Holy Land, Sahelian Africa, Afghanistan-Pakistan and Indonesia on a quest to understand what Muslims think about America and to discover what motivates young men and women to take up arms against my own nation.
