They Find Quotes

336 quotes by 307 authors

Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things… — Beck
Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as… — Johannes Brahms
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is… — Van Wyck Brooks
There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times… — James Buchan
Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity. — Eric Cantona
Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know… — Laurie Anderson
It happens, I do not know how, that most of the proud never really discover their true selves. They think they have conquered their passions… — John Climacus
I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it;… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out that they've been waiting rather… — Jane Smiley
God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, and the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in his arms, but also a kind… — H. L. Mencken
People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote. — Charlotte Gray
Human beings need to belong to a tradition and equally need to know about the world in which they find themselves. — Paula Gunn Allen
... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building, by… — Hans Zinsser
I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his… — Abraham Lincoln
I am not an angry girl, but it seems I've got everyone fooled. Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk… — Ani DiFranco
The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought… — Gilbert Highet
I certainly support the right of the gay brothers and sisters to come together. I believe true love can take a number of different forms.… — Cornel West
There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial organisms when by any means… — George Miller Sternberg
Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who… — Samuel Johnson

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