Cannot Find Quotes
196 quotes by 169 authors
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That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost…
— John Green
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Eyes Tell Stories But do they know how to craft fiction? Do they know how to spin lies? His eyes swear forever, flatter with vows…
— Ellen Hopkins
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to…
— Mother Teresa
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The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching…
— George Monbiot
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But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and does…
— J M Coetzee
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Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things…
— Fred Rogers
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If you daren't enter the forest, or cannot find it, then perhaps you might find one tree, or a place where a tree could be,…
— Viggo Mortensen
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Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees are so limited that they cannot even think about how…
— Haki R. Madhubuti
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Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.
— Carol Shields
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Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and may be we cannot find our way out of this…
— Jodi Picoult
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An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better.
— Rene Magritte
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And if you don´t commit? I asked. Your choice. But you miss what´s on the other side. What´s on the other side? "Ah" he smiled.…
— Mitch Albom
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...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.
— Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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Where did love begin?What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a day, exhausted and…
— Jeanette Winterson
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He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when…
— Oscar Wilde
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The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He…
— Thomas Merton
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Explore me' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the mass of you…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Do you think I haven't noticed? You can't wait to be free of me. I drink and then you bolt up, as if you've had…
— J R Ward
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Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge is without measure…
— John le Carre
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