Finding Quotes
2710 quotes by 2063 authors
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Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what she thinks should be there,…
— Anne Lamott
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I have been one who believes that abortion is the taking of a human life . . . . The fact that they could not…
— Ronald Reagan
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The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly, never finding what you want,…
— Jeanette Winterson
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A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything…
— Virginia Woolf
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The last of the lonely places is the sky, a trackless void where nothing lives or grows, and above it, space itself. Man may have…
— Frederick Forsyth
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You are a bundle of mysteries. Finding and conquering yourself is a lifetime task. There are unplumbed depths in you full of the rich ore…
— Wilferd Peterson
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I think it was Tommy who told me, 'When your song is called 'XYZ' or whatever, every line has got to make sense against your…
— Merle Haggard
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When your desire is to bring peace and harmony to the world, then you will have to start by finding peace and harmony within your…
— Eileen Caddy
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The feeling of losing oneself in somebody's arms, yet at the same time finding oneself there, is irreplaceable. Nothing compares to the intensity of that…
— Katarina Witt
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It's as simple as finding something on the street and then writing a jingle. If I'm driving and I have my turn signal on and…
— Nate Ruess
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Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of alternate bass lines, suspensions, widely…
— Jimmy Webb
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Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential…
— John D. MacDonald
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These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And then when I…
— Ani DiFranco
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Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go. Enlightenment is the understanding…
— Rajneesh
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Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly…
— Ludwig Bemelmans
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And all that weirdness isn't just going on outside. It's in you too, right now, growing in the dark like magic mushrooms. Call it the…
— Stephen King
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I believe the second half of one's life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you…
— Frances Lear
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We become a Co-worker with God at every step of the spiritual path. This is a universal law. There is great hope here for those…
— Harold Klemp
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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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But when I looked at a lot of the questions they had on them army tests, I just didn't know the answers. I don't even…
— Muhammad Ali
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