Discovers Quotes

227 Discovers quotes by 191 unique authors

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until… — Norman Mailer
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if… — Leo Rosten
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. — Alexis de Tocqueville
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to… — Thornton Wilder
A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships,… — Jorge Luis Borges
We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another… — Sam Harris
Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people… — Soren Kierkegaard
Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent,… — Pope John Paul II
Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each… — Anita Shreve
One who practices pure religion soon discovers it is more rewarding to lift a man up than to hold him down. — Marvin J. Ashton
The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a… — Susan Sontag
Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness… — Primo Levi
Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom… — Benjamin Franklin
A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches — Jeff Lindsay
But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed. — Federico Garcia Lorca
To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, the… — Joan Didion
Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of â€˜not knowing. — Mark Z. Danielewski
One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like… — Richard Russo
You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwriteâ€”embellishment instead of insight. You either continue to write… — Billy Collins

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