Top 100 Discover That Quotes
#1. As we step into our life's work, we discover that we have been preparing for this our whole lives, even though in that very moment we feel insufficient.
Jeff Goins
#2. This is the way I see it: if you get to know yourself really well, you might discover that deep down inside you're just a dirty, disgusting, and selfish piece of shit. What if my heart is all rotted out and corrupted? What about that? What am I suppose to do with that information? Just tell me that.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#3. When you've opened your heart to a child as you have to, there's always the fear that you may discover that the child is not viable. Losing that child is not a position you want to find yourself in.
John Rhys-Davies
#4. It comes as a great shock ... to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance ... has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you.
James Baldwin
#5. In good time he was to discover that he was mistaken about Charlotte. Underneath her rather bold and cruel exterior, she had a kind heart, and she was to prove loyal and true to the very end.
E.B. White
#6. Until we acknowledge our sin and guilt, we will never come to discover that it can be forgiven.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#7. Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration.
Ralph Keyes
#8. I should have known that people can sometimes come close enough to discover that they are strangers.
Gerard Donovan
#9. I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.
Margaret Bourke-White
#10. Good friendships are like breakfast. You think you're too busy to eat breakfast, but then you find yourself exhausted and cranky halfway through the day, and discover that your attempt to save time totally backfired.
Shauna Niequist
#11. In comparing your sorrows with mine, you may discover that yours are in truth nought.. and so shall you come to bear them the more easily grateful that they are not worse.
Peter Abelard
#12. Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily think of what they are doing as an exercise in grammar.
Richard Mitchell
#13. The main point is that quantum reality is REALLY, REALLY BIG. We'll build up a toy model that describes social life among the spins of just five particles, and we'll discover that it fills out a space of thirty-two dimensions.
Frank Wilczek
#14. The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
M. Stanton Evans
#15. Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.
Emily Dickinson
#16. When eating becomes a matter of life or death, and each new bite is a celebration, you may discover that none of the other stuff was quite as important as sitting and breaking bread together.
Bee Wilson
#17. To discover that you are loved is the center of all existence. And when we are filled with this total and delirious love, little by little, we grow and love in turn. That gradualness in our journeys is a sign of the infinite tenderness of God.
Simone Troisi
#18. Christ said, "Resist not evil", and we do not understand it until we discover that it is not only moral but actually the best policy, for anger is loss of energy to the man who displays it. You should not allow your minds to come into those brain-combinations of anger and hatred.
Swami Vivekananda
#19. I have come to discover that the reason why they are so wealthy and prosperous is not because they were lying on the couch all day.
Sunday Adelaja
#20. I have a noble history of being rejected by a lot of places, only to discover that the one that finally lets me in is in fact the perfect fit.
Renee Fleming
#21. I feel so grateful to discover that each new day brings me the opportunity to watch the sunrise and fall in love with you again.
Steve Maraboli
#22. Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen.
Jeff Cooper
#23. It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert Benchley
#24. It is a great privilege to meet inspiring leaders from different parts of the church - Catholic, Baptist, Salvation Army, Pentecostal, Lutheran, Methodist, and so many more - and discover that what unites us is infinitely greater than what divides us.
Nicky Gumbel
#25. God calls you to make definitive choices, and He has a plan for each of you: to discover that plan and to respond to your vocation is to move toward personal fulfillment.
Pope Francis
#27. She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and could never be - for a woman.
Toni Morrison
#28. The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it ... I would discover that it hadn't washed me away.
Anne Lamott
#29. The awkward moment in which I discover that both my wife and my sister have made out with the same guy.
Rachel Morgan
#30. To try and fit reincarnation into a neat mental package is very unwise. You will be very surprised when you discover that it doesn't work out that way. Your illusions will be painful for you.
Frederick Lenz
#31. Now he experienced a feeling akin to that of a man whom while calmly crossing a bridge over a precipice, should suddenly discover that the bridge is broken, and that there is a chasm below. That chasm was life itself, the bridge that artificial life in which Aleksey Aleksandrovich had lived.
Leo Tolstoy
#32. In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.
Emily Giffin
#33. There were the days of so-called free love ... but it didn't take long to discover that love is not free. Sooner or later it exacts its price.
Flora Lewis
#34. To stop for years and then discover that the audience is getting smaller and smaller would be demoralizing.
Alexis Taylor
#35. One day you just wake up and discover that you got old while you were sleeping.
Jonathan Tropper
#36. You will laugh when you discover that I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. As for women, this sort of reciprocal deceit cancels itself out, for when love enters in, both parties are usually dupes
Giacomo Casanova
#37. A symptom of the revolution: When we state something is impossible in theory, but then change our minds when we discover that it is possible in practice.
Seth Godin
#38. Perhaps I fear him because I could love him again, and in loving him, I would come to need him, and in needing him, I would again be his faithful pupil in all things, only to discover that his patience for me is no substitute for the passion which long ago blazed in his eyes.
Anne Rice
#39. If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do.
Peter Sarsgaard
#40. Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns
or dollars. Take your choice
there is no other.
Ayn Rand
#41. I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.
Gary Burton
#42. This is what travelers discover: that when you sever the links of normality and its claims, when you break off from the quotidian, it is the teapots that truly shock.
Cynthia Ozick
#43. Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps.
Neil Gaiman
#44. I discover that some of the Eastern papers represent me as a great blasphemer, because I said, in my lecture on Marriage, at our last Conference, that Jesus Christ was married at Cana of Galilee, that Mary, Martha, and others were his wives, and that he begat children.
Orson Pratt
#45. You might discover that, nationwide, America's food banks are experiencing 'a torrent of need which [they] cannot meet' and that, according to a survey conducted by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, 67 percent of the adults requesting emergency food aid are people with jobs.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#46. It seemed off that anyone could live behind such a high hedge of thorns, and he began to think it would be no great surprize to discover that Mr. Wyvern had been asleep for a hundred years or so. 'Well, I shall not mind that so much,' he thought, 'so long as I am not expected to kiss him.
Susanna Clarke
#47. Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
A.J.P. Taylor
#48. Only when you can accept that you are alone, will you discover that you are not alone.
Leonard Jacobson
#49. If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of it - then one day you'll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!
Richard P. Feynman
#50. When they discover the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to discover that they are not it.
Bernard Bailey
#51. No matter what we feel or know, no matter what our potential gifts or talents, only action brings them to life. Those of us who only think we understand concepts such as commitment, courage, and love, one day discover that we only know when we act; doing becomes understanding.
Dan Millman
#52. When you grow tired of being what you're not, go and have fun and celebrate life ...
In time, you'll discover that it will give you more than pleasure, it will give you meaning.
Paulo Coelho
#53. Put into actions what you dream of achieving. It'll amaze you to discover that you can do more than you ever dream of. Just give it a try! Never be idle, take actions now!
Israelmore Ayivor
#54. It's frightening to wake up one morning and discover that while you were asleep you went out of style.
Erma Bombeck
#55. It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a book only to discover that you have missed several key chapters.
THE LETTER Chapter 9 page 104
Richard Paul Evans
#56. It's been unsettling to discover that every form of narrative, even one that purports to tell the truth, is a kind of lying.
Damon Galgut
#57. I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived.
Henry David Thoreau
#58. Rethink success: Few people will ever discover that the most important business they will ever run.. is their life!
Tony Dovale
#59. Latin American republics were among the first to discover that it was relatively painless to default when a substantial proportion of bondholders were foreign.
Niall Ferguson
#60. When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.
Toni Cade Bambara
#61. Manage the inn, Jane, save it. Have a mission in life. Discover that work worth doing is about more than profit and toil. It's about using the gifts and ability you've been given to serve your fellow man and please your Maker.
Julie Klassen
#62. You can hurt more than you ever thought possible, then continue until you discover that hurting isn't that big a deal.
Scott Jurek
#63. Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn't completely used up your body.
Jane Urquhart
#64. If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory.
Robert Breault
#65. If you work long enough and hard enough to understand yourself, you will come to discover that this vast part of your mind, of which you now have little awareness, contains riches beyond imagination.
M. Scott Peck
#66. In my experience, successful people shoot for the stars, put their hearts on the line in every battle, and ultimately discover that the lessons learned from the pursuit of excellence mean much more than the immediate trophies and glory.
Josh Waitzkin
#67. When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#68. Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#69. We are afraid that if we stop and really look at God in his Word, we might discover that he evokes greater awe and demands deeper worship than we are ready to give him.
David Platt
#70. You will discover that essential wellbeing is not found by calming our minds or by changing our thoughts or attitudes, but actually by shifting out of our chattering minds and into a freedom that is already available.
Loch Kelly
#71. Eventually the girl would discover that sadists tended to be politer than regular Doms - at least, when not in a scene. After all, if a sadist was nasty, then how would he get anyone to play with him?
Cherise Sinclair
#73. When you pay attention to the Quran, you discover that it can only be from Allah. It becomes clearer and clearer to you that it cannot be from a human being. But many people don't perceive the Quran this way because Allah doesn't open its doors to people who do not pay attention.
Nouman Ali Khan
#74. THE QUESTION IS, OF COURSE, IS IT GOING TO BE POSSIBLE TO AMALGAMATE EVERYTHING,
AND MERELY DISCOVER THAT THIS WORLD REPRESENTS DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF ONE THING?
Richard Feynman
#75. As soon as you say 'I do,' you'll discover that marriage is like a car. Both of you might be sitting in the front seat, but only one of you is driving. And most marriages are more like a motorcycle than a car. Somebody has to sit in the back, and you have to yell just to be heard.
Wanda Sykes
#76. You will soon discover that in matters of the heart, memories are much kinder than reality
Judith McNaught
#77. I was to discover that like the overcoat that snugly wraps Rizal in all his statues and photographs, Rizal is obscured by countless myths and preconceived ideas ... Without his overcoat, Rizal was human, like you and me.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#78. The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.
Anthony Storr
#79. I will follow this strategy until I discover something that is certain or, at least, until I discover that it is certain only that nothing is certain.
Rene Descartes
#80. ...we can do some historical research to see how our ancestors lived. We will quickly discover that we are living in what to them would have been a dream world that we tend to take for granted things that our ancestors had to live without...
William B. Irvine
#81. Trees had been so common that it was a shock to ride out on the plains and discover that there was a part of earth where there weren't any.
Larry McMurtry
#82. Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable items in his education were never entered in the bills which his father paid for.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#83. My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.
Gail Collins
#84. If you open the flood gates of thought you do not know what may come. You may discover that you are better than you thought or worse than the devil himself
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#85. Welcome to prekindergarten! You will not die if you discover that there are more lines out there than just your own. In fact, you'll discover that you will have an advantage if you know more of them!
Bernice Johnson Reagon
#86. When we are freed from the rules and regulations that are so often imposed on us in the name of God, we discover that creativity is the natural result of spirituality. And if this is true, then our soul is the primary material for all artistic expression.
Erwin Raphael McManus
#87. What a relief it was to discover that I wasnt realy an idiot! I simply had a learning disability.
John H. Johnson
#88. You must dare to do the thing you think cannot be done ... as this is the only way to discover that there's nothing you can't do.
Guy Finley
#89. Those who dare to try what others only dream of - never fail to discover that real effort is always rewarded.
Guy Finley
#90. So, far from being a matter of personal brain physiology, we discover that the reason we cannot remember the future is purely due to the physics of the external universe: we cannot remember the future because we have received no information from the future.
Andrew Thomas
#91. As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.
Hanna Rosin
#92. I will guarantee you that the day you step outside your comfort zone by making success your goal is the day you discover that adversity, risk, and daring will make life sweeter than you ever imagined.
Mark Burnett
#93. One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.
Piers Anthony
#94. Polly had arrived in the world outraged to discover that her sisters had gotten there before her.
Liane Moriarty
#95. There's nothing to prove, nothing to figure out, nothing to get, nothing to understand. When we finally stop explaining everything to ourselves, we may discover that in silence, complete understanding is already there.
Steve Hagen
#96. In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life.
Ann Voskamp
#97. Realize you won't master data structures until you are working on a real-world problem and discover that a hash is the solution to your performance woes.
Robert Love
#98. You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.
Carly Simon
#99. In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on ours ... I am obliged to want others to have freedom at the same time that I want my own freedom. I can take freedom as my goal only if I take that of others as a goal as well.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#100. True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut
