Found Quotes
8743 Found quotes by 5106 unique authors
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I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as…
— Pierre Loti
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The physical exercise and emotional stretching that children enjoy in unorganized play is more varied and less time-bound than is found in organized sports. Playtime—especially…
— Richard Louv
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In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for laymen and another…
— Virchand Gandhi
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God will seek us -- how long? Until he finds us. And when he's found the last little shriveling rebellious soul and has depopulated hell,…
— Clarence Jordan
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In searching for a way out of my own troubles, I had found my way into the troubles of others, some long gone, and now…
— Jesse Ball
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Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight.
— Josemaria Escriva
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In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better.
— Brian P. Cleary
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There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem…
— William Kingdon Clifford
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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
— Berthold Auerbach
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If you can't be pretty, you have to learn to make yourself attractive. I found that all the pretty girls I went to high school…
— Iris Apfel
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The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in,…
— Octavia Butler
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The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever of good may…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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The way of the Samurai is found in death.
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.
— William Feather
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A person is either himself or not himself; is either rooted in his existence or is a fabrication; has either found his humanhood or is…
— Sydney J. Harris
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Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can…
— Stanley Fish
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All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are…
— Dennis McKenna
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In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
— Ben Horowitz
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I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or…
— Anne Tyler
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The Dhamma has to be found by looking into your own heart and seeing that which is true and that which is not, that which…
— Ajahn Chah
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My way is set as in stone, and I don't feel the need to veer off any longer. It has taken many days of searching…
— Patrick Carman
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I have always felt it a great privilege to be in the theater, and I am grateful to all the playwrights who have given me…
— Alfred Lunt
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Christ said, The Truth shall make you free, but Truth is not found once and forever. Truth is eternal, and the quest for Truth must…
— Max Heindel
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I dug myself a garden, and a stray cat I grew to like would come around to sulk in the corn. I forced myself to…
— Wells Tower
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I grew up in the 30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot; he got on his bike and looked for work and he kept…
— Norman Tebbit
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