Finds Quotes
1595 Finds quotes by 1148 unique authors
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The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
— Paul Valery
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.
— Charles Dudley Warner
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For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
— Isaac Watts
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Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we…
— Marianne Williamson
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Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
— Loretta Young
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I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.
— Henny Youngman
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Wonder knows that while you cannot look at the light, you cannot look at anything else without it. It is not exhausted by childhood, but…
— Ravi Zacharias
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The street finds its own uses for things.
— William Gibson
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Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
— Khaled Hosseini
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The supernatural can be very annoying until one finds the key that transforms it into science," he observed mildly... "Come on, Ox, let's go out…
— Barry Hughart
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A: The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find our soul. Q: It always…
— Mary Zimmerman
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...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.
— Robert Anton Wilson
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When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his…
— Max Ernst
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...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Doffing the ego's safe glory, he finds his naked reality.
— Dag Hammarskjold
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Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of…
— Bertrand Russell
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Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
— Victor Hugo
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To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Don't think about what you've left behind" The alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. "If…
— Paulo Coelho
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I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods…
— Albert Camus
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The night's chilly breath tickles up my neck and finds my ear, whispering secrets only the wind knows.
— Libba Bray
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