Quotes about finding

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“When the music is over, she keeps her head down till she finds her seat again, and I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.”

“Grandma said […] when you come on something that is good, first thing to do is share it with whoever you can find; that way, the good spreads out to where no telling it will go.”

“I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.”

“I can't hate people that much. Don't get me wrong. I want to murder every last Keeper I can find. But that's not hate. That's vengeance.”

“The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women’s intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn’t realize it.” I waited in silence”

“There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may find that you've constructed an entire philosophy of evil." --Luke Skywalker”

“You need never be discouraged or afraid. The way through difficulties has always been prepared for you, and you will find it if you exercise faith.”

“Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us!”

“What would I do without you?
You're never going to find out.”

“At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are alarmed by their desire to devour others.”

“May the IRS find that you deduct your pet sheep as an entertainment expense.”

“Who will see you through the darkness? "Me," I key in the answer. "I'll find my own way.”

“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it”

“Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.”

“I try to find meaning anywhere I can. It's the only way I know how to validate my existence.”

“It is not possible that you could ever find yourself anywhere where God was not fully present, fully active, able and willing to set you free.”

“Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being?”

“I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.”

“I lost a world the other day. Has anybody found? You'll know it by the rows of stars around it's forehead bound. A rich man might not notice it; yet to my frugal eye of more esteem than ducats. Oh! Find it, sir, for me!”

“If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.”

“But anyone can begin. It was the part with all the promise, the potential, the things I loved. More and more, though, I was finding myself wanting to find out what happened in the end..”

“Well, you have to find that rare someone for whom you’re not putting on a show. Someone who shines a spotlight in your direction—not because you’re who they need you to be, or who they want you to be…just because you’re you.”

“After all, you only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.”

“The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to find our sovereign voice often requires a betrayal.”

“We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.”

“Find the Good and Praise it" by Alex Haley”

“Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out.”

“what is terrible when you seek the truth is that you find it..”

“I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. And that is why we find ourselves emptied of meaning with our pantries still full.”

“A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”

“Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.”

“If there is a heaven, we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you.”

“If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?”

“Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.”

“They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and finding the world disconcertingly sluggish and alien, as if it were not their home.”

“What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.”

“Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.”

“It's lovely. If only you could frost someone to death."

"Don't be so superior. You can never tell what you will find in the arena. Say it's a gigantic cake-”

“I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.”

“Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive.”

“Which leaves us to the question, what is he up to?" Evanlyn said.
Will shrugged. "I suppose we'll find out soon enough," he said, and urged Tug forward to take up the point position once more.

They found out the following evening.”

“Can't you… I don't. Find a hobby or something?"
"Being charming is my hobby.”

“Find what you want. I will find you.”

“Just because you're a gutless harlot doesn't mean I won't find your… attributes attractive. I might be immortal, but I'm still a red-blooded male."

"Harlot? Who talks like that? Father Time, meet the Flinstones.”

“She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?'"
"He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful.”

“We were given: Two hands to hold. Two legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find.”

“And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will find Deliverance from Sin a much greater Blessing than Deliverance from Affliction.”

“I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.”

“Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.”

“If you leave here, War can find you again. What are you going to do if that happens? (Tory)
Leave bloodstains on his best shirt. (Acheron)”

“Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.”

“I do think that men can forget a lost love quickly. I know that women would find it much harder.”

“Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.”

“Find the goddess inside yourself instead of looking for the god in someone else.”

“Being in love, I find myself smiling for no reason at all…”

“When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.”

“Don't be a sexist. They could find me a female instructor."
"In that case you have my permission to make out with her, as long as I can watch.”

“You won't find a vampire in a Ford Fiesta”

“People like to say being gay isn't like skin color, isn't anything physical. They tell us we always have the option of hiding.
But if that's true, why do they always find us?”

“If I don't have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over?”

“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”

“You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”

“So I find words I never thought to speak

In streets I never thought I should revisit

When I left my body on a distant shore.”

“There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction. These people with dead children, you want to tell them, go ahead. Blame yourself. There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.”

“You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.”

“Even at the end of the road, read the first sentence, there is a road. Even at the end of the road, a new road stretches out, endless and open, a road that may lead anywhere. To him who will find it, there is always a road.”

“And she finds it difficult to believe—that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy.”

“When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.”

“Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is?”

“Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.”

“The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.”

“There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.”

“The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. (Death)”

“By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.”

“Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.”

“Sometimes we find it hardest to accept in others that which we cling to in ourselves.”

“The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!”

“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”

“Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear.”

“This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.”

“Maybe Liz was right and she'd wanted someplace safe. Maybe Mr. Solomon really did understand that running was the only way Macey would find out if we'd run after her. Or maybe, like me, she just wanted to disappear for a little while”

“People say they "find" love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a CERTAIN love.”

“I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.”

“Who knows but that you will get up to find that the world has inverted itself yet again?”

“[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble.”

“Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.”

“If you look closely you'll find all my lovers inscribed on my skin.”

“Men aren't stupid, and you don't need a complicated set of rules to find a good one who loves you. Here's the only rule you need: if a man loves you, he will do anything he can to keep you around. Anything.”

“True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you; you just grow into each other”

“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.”

“Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.”

“Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.”

“No stories or explanations,' Finnikin had once told him. 'When it comes to women, straight into an apology and you will find the rest of your life bearable.”

“In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort of hard to believe because, until you get good at it, knitting seems to cause those ailments..”

“People who stay in the same town with the same friends for their entire lives never get a chance to find out who they can really be, because they will always be considered as who they were.”

“It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.”

“A Warrior of Light values a child's eyes because they are able to look at the world without bitterness. When he wants to find out if the person beside him is worthy of his trust, he tries to see him as a child would”

“Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.”

“I want to be a scientist who studies the ocean when I grow up. I would go out to sea, and scuba dive, and find new things, and National Geographic will hire me.”
Sure, Nudge. Probably around the time I become president.”