Finding Quotes

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I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBoisâ€™s learning and Baldwinâ€™s… — Barack Obama
When someone is seeking,â€ said Siddartha, â€œIt happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to… — Hermann Hesse
And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time.… — Nicholas Sparks
Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that… — Douglas Adams
Mr. Fresh looked up. "The book says if we don't do our jobs everything could go dark, become like the Underworld. I don't know what… — Christopher Moore
Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A… — Lloyd Alexander
Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished… — Thomas Pynchon
The swan who goes on living in its parents' tree will die; this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear the burden of… — Arthur Golden
I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps… — Doris Lessing
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more… — Jane Austen
God himself, finding he was in the midst of spirits and glory, because he was more intelligent, saw proper to institute laws whereby the rest… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression… — Keith Ablow
Got to start by finding it, have we? Can't start by looking for it, I suppose? — C.S. Lewis
Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are… — C.S. Lewis
There is something more annoying than pleasant in finding neighbors from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. It mitigates your triumph… — Dawn Powell
Q: Whatâ€™s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination… — Tom Waits
There is By my leaning over the precipice Of your presence and your absence in hopeless fusion My finding the secret Of loving you Always… — Andre Breton
GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and the stones, and… — Mary Oliver
There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and… — Terry Pratchett

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