Found Quotes - page 4

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice. View quote
Ronald Reagan
The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy. View quote
Max Jacob
Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing. View quote
Annette Funicello
Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace. View quote
Frederick Winslow Taylor
It was the laughter of birthdays, of money found in an old pocket. View quote
Ian Rankin
He had wanted so hard to Escape, to find the stars. And all he had found was a new prison. View quote
Catherine Fisher
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind. View quote
Charles Darwin
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found. View quote
William James
Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them. (Robert Oppenheimer)
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory. View quote
Tennessee Williams
I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really. View quote
Tennessee Williams
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life. View quote
William Ellery Channing
And the song, from beginning to end, I found in the heart of a friend. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. View quote
Edmund Burke
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth. View quote
Edmund Burke
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress. View quote
Wallace Stevens
True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does. View quote
Torquato Tasso
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. (G. K. Chesterton)
A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones. View quote
Antonin Artaud
If I had a large amount of money I should found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily. View quote
Stephen Fry
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. View quote
Steve Jobs