Top 100 Quotes About Finds
#1. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#2. A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
J.B. Priestley
#3. Life finds its balance. Children grow up. Second chances come along. In the meantime, I could choose to savor this moment. What good would it do to allow annoyance to interfere with gratitude?
Katrina Kenison
#4. The universe exists only through a constant dance of consistency and change. Through consistency, consciousness finds meaning; through change it finds stimulation and expansion. To find consistency within change is to embrace the unfolding flow.
Anodea Judith
#5. If one finds oneself with bread in both hands, that person should exchange one loaf for some flowers of the narcissus, because the loaf feeds the body, but the flowers feed the soul.
Nazr Mohammed
#6. He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
Thomas Jefferson
#7. A person can learn all manner of things, no matter where he finds himself, provided his spirit is determined.
Hiromi Kawakami
#9. Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.
Peter Bichsel
#10. In works of labour,
or of skill,
I would be busy, too;
For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.
Isaac Watts
#11. When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command.
Gary Weiss
#12. It is not hard work, because all work together ... what one hand finds hard to lift is lighter than a feather when many lift together.
Joseph Bruchac
#13. An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
Joseph Conrad
#14. Looking for trouble, he'd say. You're gonna look til you find it.
Trouble is the looker, she'd answer. It keeps looking till it finds you. Might as well find it first.
Why do you want to die?
I don't, she'd say. I just want to live.
Victoria Schwab
#15. One finds a way of living for the sake of someone else's future. And it wasn't as if Ove also died when Sonja left him. He just stopped living.
Fredrik Backman
#16. One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until
after considerable acquaintance with her.
Mark Twain
#17. What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.
Hermann Hesse
#18. If a thief and an immoral society finds a thief and an immoral political leader, it will support him to the death!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#19. And then they say one is misanthropical. Hang it! who can help being misanthropical when he finds everybody getting on in life except himself?
Benjamin Disraeli
#20. Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.
George MacDonald
#21. Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used to produce more stuff, stuff like itself - clay to be available for future use.
David Byrne
#22. God is willing to answer when we ask: ' Ask and it will be given to you; seek you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks received, and who seeke finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened(Matthew7:7-8, NKJV).
Euginia Herlihy
#25. When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense, or of losing his respect for the law - two evils of equal magnitude, between which it would be difficult to choose. It
Frederic Bastiat
#26. It is a question of the freedom of God, which finds its strongest evidence precisely in that God freely chose to be bound to historical human beings and to be placed at the disposal of human beings. God is free not from human beings but for them. Christ is the word of God's freedom.
Eric Metaxas
#27. To me, a person's identity is composed of both an 'I' and a 'we.' The 'I' finds itself in love, work, and pleasure, but it also locates itself within some meaningful group identity - a tribe, a community, a 'we.' America is too big and bland a tribe for most of us.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
#28. All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person.
Hermann Hesse
#29. No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her. Sex is always out there. Friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.
Nora Ephron
#30. Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#31. A woman with a hazel eye never elopes from her husband, never chats scandal, never finds fault, never talks too much nor too little
always is an entertaining, intellectual, agreeable and lovely creature.
Arthur Frederick Saunders
#32. It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.
Vash Young
#33. Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.
William Osler
#34. He sifts through all the pebbles until he finds the smoothest one he can, and presents it to her as a token of his love.
Mia Sheridan
#35. India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.
Annie Besant
#36. No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which finds expression in human personality.
Burnett Hillman Streeter
#37. THE RIGHT
POEM
FINDS
US
EXACTLY
WHEN IT
NEEDS TO.
- ATTICUS
Atticus Poetry
#39. The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
Edmond De Goncourt
#40. No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence.
Gustav Krupp
#41. The contented person finds rest in death, and for the greedy person, death puts an end to his long list of desires.
Liezi
#42. The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.
Aldous Huxley
#43. A person can find anything if he takes the time, that is, if he can afford to look. And while he's looking, he's free, and he finds things he never expected.
Tove Jansson
#44. Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs.
George Crabbe
#45. Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#46. Ladies used to be fond of me: not all of them, but it happened, it happened. But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt. I
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#47. When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#48. There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.
Guy Debord
#49. Swann, with that almost arrogant charity of a man of the world who, amid the dissolution of all his own moral prejudices, finds in another's shame merely a reason for treating him with a friendly benevolence ...
Marcel Proust
#50. You've no choice with whom you fall in love with.Love finds us at the most unexpected times in our lives.One dare & I fell hopelessly in love with the one man who has the potential to help me move forward from my past.
Rebecca Shea
#51. Did all the lets and bars appear
To every just or larger end,
Whence should come the trust and cheer?
Youth must its ignorant impulse lend
Age finds place in the rear.
All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys,
The champions and enthusiasts of the state
Herman Melville
#52. Pay attention to that unchanging part of yourself. It is perfect. At the source of life, and only there, one finds peace, harmony, and the undisturbed contentment of bliss.
Deepak Chopra
#53. The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite.
Richard M. Weaver
#54. That's when a woman finds herself
when she's in love. I don't care if she is old or fat or homely or prosy. She feels that little flutter under her ribs and she drops from the tree like a ripe plum.
Christopher Morley
#55. The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple lover of truth, especially if on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#56. He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Dylan Thomas
#57. A credulous mind ... finds most delight in believing
strange things, and the stranger they are the easier they pass
with him; but never regards those that are plain and
feasible, for every man can believe such.
Samuel Butler
#58. A mathematician experiments, amasses information, makes a conjecture, finds out that it does not work, gets confused and then tries to recover. A good mathematician eventually does so - and proves a theorem.
Steven G. Krantz
#59. True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#60. He said love isn't something you find, it's something that finds you
Julie Ann Walker
#61. As Emerson observes, "The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry."4
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
#62. For if the will has nothing to employ it and love has no present object with which to busy itself, the soul finds itself without either support or occupation, its solitude and aridity cause it great distress and its thoughts involve it in the severest conflict.
Teresa Of Avila
#63. Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.
Thomas Griffith
#64. The leak that comes from the outside harms no one,' he stated once more. 'It is the leak that one finds indoors that is the worst.' When one is unmarried, one must tell people to shut up in a roundabout fashion.
Halldor Laxness
#65. But, in fact, a person's sexual choice is the result and sum of their fundamental convictions. Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life.
Ayn Rand
#66. Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France.
Peter Mandelson
#67. In Bible-story journeys, ain't no journey hopeless. Everybody finds what they suppose to find.
William H. Armstrong
#68. God finds His best soldiers on the mountain of affliction.
Lettie B. Cowman
#69. The child's grief throbs against the round of its little heart as heavily as the man's sorrow, and the one finds as much delight in his kite or drum as the other in striking the springs of enterprise or soaring on the wings of fame.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#70. Nobody welcomes a war - not if they're smart. But war finds everyone sooner or later. It's inevitable.
Rick Riordan
#71. [The spirit of party] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.
George Washington
#72. Failure's sleeve cannot help but brush against the back of gratified desires and insatiability is inevitably left to gaze with smoldering eyes into the wise, peaceful eyes of a person who finds satiation within himself.
Robert Walser
#73. Civilization gets too large, it finds a way to destroy itself.
Anonymous
#74. Under law the Quest for Ultimate Truth is quite clearly the inalienable prerogative of your working thinkers. Any bloody machine goes and actually finds it and we're straight out of a job, aren't we?
Douglas Adams
#75. Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems.
Francis Stokes
#76. Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
Harpo Marx
#77. One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature.
Thomas Merton
#78. Life is hard, honey. Everyone finds a way.
Nicola Yoon
#79. The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
Claude Bernard
#80. Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
Alexander Pope
#81. In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is the personification of the bureaucracy. That is the substance of his political personality.
Leon Trotsky
#82. The world of sexuality it finds is not entirely mature and pure, it is not human enough, only virile, rut, intoxication, restlessness, and weighed down by the old prejudices and arrogance with which men have disfigured and overburdened love.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#83. Who hath seen the Phantom Ship,
Her lordly rise and lowly dip,
Careering o'er the lonesome main,
No port shall know her keel again ...
Ah, woe is in the awful sight,
The sailor finds there eternal night,
'Neath the waters he shall ever sleep,
And Ocean will the secret keep
Albert Pinkham Ryder
#84. And after that, he'd probably tell you that if he ever finds a girl who fits him as perfectly as Brooke fits you, that he hopes you're a good enough friend to say, 'Dude, get over your shit, get off your ass, and go talk to her.
Julie James
#86. Is an artist only the one whose paintings are purchased? I think that an artist is a man who always seeks and never finds a final answer.
[Vincent Van Gogh]
Irving Stone
#88. He who finds a new path is a pathfinder, even if the trail has to be found again by others; and he who walks far ahead of his contemporaries is a leader, even though centuries pass before he is recognized as such.
Ibn Khaldun
#90. I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.
Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
#91. In fact, the legal system is in part responsible for their very size and growth. And too often when the individual finds himself in conflict with these forces, the legal system sides with the giant institution, not the small businessman or private citizen.
Edward Kennedy
#92. I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with more courage and submission.
Thomas Huxley
#93. There comes a time in a girl's life where she finds her heart broken, what matters is not the boy who broke it but the boy who stitches it back together
Kara Lee Hunter
#94. True music begins when the song of your soul finds its tune and the emotions of your heart find their voices.
Debasish Mridha
#95. If you don't want something, refuse it! Refusal is your true way to the stars! Man rises by refusing with courage the things he finds inconvenient!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#96. Arbitrary government operating by force, by terror, must destroy the best, the boldest dissenters in sheer self-defence; soon it finds itself destroying all who, on the one hand, do not actively assist it or, on the other, do not passively submit.
Edward Crankshaw
#97. The man whose acquaintance with the world does not lead him deeper than science leads him, will never understand what it is that the man with the spiritual vision finds in these natural phenomena.
Rabindranath Tagore
#98. Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.
Alphonsus Liguori
#99. Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest justice in the world who can discernonly law. He finds himself constituted judge of the judge. Strange that it should be necessary to state such simple truths!
Henry David Thoreau
#100. Change happens when one individual has had enough pain and finds the inner resolve to ask for help and make a difference.
Mike Ferguson
