Top 100 I Have Found Quotes
#1. I have found my voice again and the art of using it ...
Colette
#2. As for me, I see no such great cause why I should either be fond to live or fear to die. I have had good experience of this world, and I know what it is to be a subject and what to be a sovereign. Good neighbours I have had, and I have met with bad: and in trust I have found treason.
Elizabeth I
#3. I have found my way, step by step, proceeding from touch points that have emerged, some through conscious choice and some through dream state discovery.
Leonard Nimoy
#4. And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, "I have found it! Eureka!".
Plutarch
#5. Whenever I have found myself stuck in the ways I relate to things, I return to nature. It is my principal teacher, and I try to open my whole being to what it has to say.
Wynn Bullock
#6. My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.
Andrew Weil
#7. Trials make room for consolation. There is nothing that makes man have a big heart like a great trial. I have found that those people who have no sympathy for their fellows, who never weep for the sorrows of others very seldom have any of their own. Great hearts could be made only by great troubles.
Charles Spurgeon
#8. With each day, each hour and every moment of life, no matter how small, I realize that I have found a way of bringing me straight to the one person that I would give everything for ... to you. I am living in a dream, in a dream I don't want to awake from.
Sawm Rad
#9. There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice.
Virginia Woolf
#10. The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.
Oprah Winfrey
#11. I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.
Doris Day
#12. I have found my cross and it is a heavy one, but I shall never be satisfied until I take it up and carry it.
Charles M. Sheldon
#13. I have found no better way than to value and savor the sacredness of daily living, to rely on repetition, the humdrum rhythm which heals and steadies.
Gunilla Brodde Norris
#14. We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#15. In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Ansel Adams
#16. Retired soldiers are the worst sufferers when they engage in financial operations. I have found that their credulity far exceeds that of widows--and that is saying a good deal.
Agatha Christie
#17. I have found having my dad as my North Star has worked well for me.
Tony Parsons
#18. The teaching fellow establishes the atmosphere of a class in the first few meetings. I have found that students appreciate having the ground rules clearly defined from the start.
Catherine Asaro
#19. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one.
Frederick Douglass
#20. The road does rarely welcome us, preferring we should stay at home, but I have found the remedy is simply then to move my home itself to other places, and so gain a different view.
Susanna Kearsley
#21. Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful.
Ruth Ozeki
#22. Don't lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. And that is the stubbornness in me: I do not want to be someone's little home.
Jeanette Winterson
#23. [...] I have found that there is a rock that supports my faith. But it's a borrowed rock, kind of a sedimentary rock composed in good measure of the faith of others.
Robert W. Griggs
#24. I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
Calvin Coolidge
#25. I have tried to write about politics in an allusive manner that draws upon other interests and to approach literature and criticism without ignoring the political dimension. Even if I have failed in this synthesis, I have found the attempt worth making.
Christopher Hitchens
#26. There is a point where, as a writer, you grow to hate your characters, their stupid motivations, and their whiny inner dialogues. The only solution I have found to deal with that is to kill the character, resurrect him, then kill him again.
Caris O'Malley
#27. I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
Oscar Wilde
#28. I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and must bear our own in solitude. For my part, I have found that walking soothes it; and that, given luck, sometimes we find one to walk besides us ... at least for a little way.
Alan Moore
#29. I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry Truman
#30. I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.
Ziggy Marley
#31. I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist when considering Zeus, Apollo, Amon Ra, Mithras, Baal, Thor, Wotan, the Golden Calf and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I just go one god further.
Richard Dawkins
#32. I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#33. I have found in experiments, people become used to the robots. The less startling they become, the more commonplace they get. If these robots do become commonplace, then that uncanny effect will go away.
David Hanson
#34. I have found great power in taking my 'difference' out for a spin in a very public way. And usually, the worst, most personally embarrassing thing you imagine in your mind is often not anywhere near as bad in real life.
Aimee Mullins
#35. I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
Samuel Johnson
#36. You ask whether the Orient is all I imagined it to be. Yes, it is - and more than that, it extends far beyond the narrow idea I had of it. I have found, clearly delineated, everything that was hazy in my mind.' 8.
Alain De Botton
#37. There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.
Terry Pratchett
#38. The more familiar that a place becomes, the more mysterious it becomes, as well, if you are alert to the truth of things. I have found this to be the case all of my life.
Dean Koontz
#39. I have found that the tools for my trade- writing, are very basic: paper, a pen, time, food and perhaps a little tequila...
Jose N. Harris
#40. I have found that if you invest in the lives of people, well-feed sheep will reproduce themselves.
Greg Laurie
#41. I have found that people do not often want to believe the truth. It is of little value to them.
Terry Goodkind
#42. It doesn't matter, because I have found my match. It's Nick, laid-back and calm, smart and fun and uncomplicated. Untortured, happy. Nice. Big penis.
Gillian Flynn
#43. You ask what I have found and far and wide I go,
Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew,
The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay,
And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?
William Butler Yeats
#44. One of these poems I wrote after having been here only a month. The other, I wrote this morning. In the space between the two poems, I have found acres of grace
Elizabeth Gilbert
#45. 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 so many wonderful roles. It's a terrifying business, but it has its compensations. Where else could I have found someone who for 50 years has given me sheer enchantment?
Alfred Lunt
#46. And of course, now that Bernard and I have found each other forever, we're determined to create our own little world in order to survive the one we're in.
Shelley Duvall
#47. My involvement is an extension of who I am as a person. I have found a sense of renewal and peace when I allow myself to be open to create, give, and fully participate in things that call me to respond from my core.
Grace Gealey
#48. I have sought but a kindred spirit to share it, and I have found such in thee.
Walter Scott
#49. I think one of my biggest lessons so far in life is that hard work really does pay off. It may not culminate in the way you expected it to, but I have found that when I really put my head down and apply myself, I often get a good result.
Amanda Schull
#50. I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.
William Hague
#51. The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true.
Frank Arthur Swinnerton
#52. Relationships only get to exist as long as they keep breathing in the air of mutual forgiveness, and he and I have found an uncommon grace. Grace can strike when you are in great pain and light you with the greatest hope. I
Ann Voskamp
#53. I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live.
Yayoi Kusama
#54. I have found a beautiful summary of the way I work with organisations, and the values I seek to amplify.
Martin Burns
#55. I have found in the world of film many movies including Beyond Rangoon, The Crow, Gandhi, Doctor Zhivago, and The Big Blue, a French film, convey similar understandings. I'm sure the list is endless. These are just a few of my favorites.
Frederick Lenz
#56. Of all the dreams of love that ever I have dreamed, no matter how fantastic, no matter how unbelievablely dear, no matter the shed tears, the heartfelt sadness or joy. I have found that real love is more wonderful than any dream.
Tonny K. Brown
#57. It is not in my nature to be interested in the living.
But there are many things, I have found, that defy nature.
Rin Chupeco
#59. I have found two Roman sites in the area that I live in.
Bill Wyman
#60. Through fasting ... I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
Upton Sinclair
#61. I am but a miserable sinner, but I have found, in my long life, that the cenobite has no foe worse than sadness.
Anatole France
#62. I have found my heaven in musicals. When I watch a musical, it makes me believe life is still beautiful.
John Woo
#63. I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.
Moses
#64. I have found a unique opportunity to distinguish myself and to learn my trade. I am a general officer in the army of the United States of America. My zeal in their cause and my frankness have won their trust.
Marquis De Lafayette
#65. It was he [Vincent] who helped me to accommodate my life in such a way that I can be at peace with myself. Serenity - this was the favorite word of both of them [Vincent and Theo], the something they considered the highest. Serenity - I have found it.
Johanna Van Gogh-Bonger
#66. I have found essences to be among the most valuable tools that I have utilized for awakening and allowing transformation.
Marcey Shapiro
#67. The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.
Kirk Douglas
#68. I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man: It is we.
Konrad Lorenz
#69. In my experience, I have found that creativity demands a vigilant mind, which is weakened by the influence of drugs.
Ernst Junger
#70. I have found that most young people really want us to spell out a moral code. They may not accept it or believe it, but they want to hear it, clearly and without compromise.
Billy Graham
#71. I have found little 'good' about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash ...
Sigmund Freud
#72. I have found that winning isn't everything, and, in fact, in the relationships I most care about, it isn't anything.
Robert Brault
#73. I'm into the idea of responsibility and edification and these things have found me and I have found them. I wanted to be in the movie and I made it known to Mike.
Rob Morrow
#74. In my experience as a psychotherapist, I have found that stress underlies most of the psychological, social, and medical problems people face in contemporary society. If we can get a handle on stress, we can take care of most of the problems we face in our lives.
Jed Diamond
#75. I have found that liars in the end communicate more truth than do truth tellers." "How's that?" "Because truth is the safest lie.
Douglas Preston
#76. I have found, through years of practice, that people garden in order to make something grow; to interact with nature; to share, to find sanctuary, to heal, to honor the earth, to leave a mark. Through gardening, we feel whole as we make our personal work of art upon our land.
Julie Moir Messervy
#77. Life essentially seeks out balance.I have found that it is in the habit of trading one sorrow for one joy until one cancels out the other.
Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
#78. Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.
Ray Dalio
#79. I have found things that I could have done better in 'The Woman Warrior.' But then I thought: Let the work of one's youth just stand.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#80. I have found that fate is as liquid and elusive a word as love. Plato thought they were the same ... Novalis wrote that fate and soul are two names for the same principle.
Liz Greene
#81. I'm always looking, people are always presenting and I have found that every year of my life there's been great bands. All over the world, all the time. So when someone goes, "Music sucks now!" I'll go, "I don't think so. Not over at my house."
Henry Rollins
#82. I have found out all I need to know, it's pretty self explanatory. You wanted a laugh; trick two girls into thinking you liked them. Bravo, you succeeded. Now go have a celebratory drink with your frat buddies, I said, spitting rain out at him with each word I spoke.
Nicole Gulla
#83. Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone ... than I ever have before.
Ben Folds
#84. I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.
Winston Churchill
#85. After much searching I have found the thing that sets me apart: a sort of stubborn attachment to evil.
Andre Gide
#86. After 19 years of experimenting, a thousand mistakes, over 400 books, at least 200 bad diets ... and a partridge in a pear tree, I have found what I believe are the best answers this planet has to offer about living a healthy, happy, and balanced life.
Marilu Henner
#87. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice; & that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.' (26 July 1922)
Virginia Woolf
#89. I have found that the biggest moments in life, the ones that change everything, usually catch you by surprise.
Christina Baker Kline
#90. I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.
Anatoly Karpov
#91. I have found, in over fifty years of confronting governments and defending cooperatives from political and bureaucratic interference, that when you begin demanding what is rightfully yours, there are many people even within the bureaucratic system who ensure that you retain those rights.
Verghese Kurien
#92. Through the thick and thin of it all, it is with every harmless personal dare that I have found my greatest happiness.
Sherrie Krantz
#93. I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
Alan Greenspan
#94. I have found that people who can successfully resist temptation invariably lead depressingly stunted lives.
C.D. Payne
#95. Come morning I found the day as I have found every other day
without relief or explanation.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#96. I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#97. Look, my dear Govinda, this is one of my thoughts, which I have found: wisdom cannot be passed on. Wisdom which a wise man tries to pass on to someone always sounds like foolishness." "Are
Hermann Hesse
#98. I have found that lived out, the hardest place to be a Christian is to be in a nice prosperous country with a lot of entertainment options because there's so many distractions.
Philip Yancey
#99. I have found that she is as kind and caring a person as she is hilarious. Simply put, Amy Poehler is my hero.
Aziz Ansari
#100. When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name.
Charles Spurgeon
