Finding Quotes - page 2

The discipline, nonetheless, is exacting: everything that can be observed should be observed, even if it is only recalled as the bland background from which the intriguing bits pop out like Venus in the evening sky. The goal is always finding something new, hopefully unimagined and, better still, hitherto unimaginable. (K. Barry Sharpless)
I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back. View quote
Judy Garland
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. View quote
Samuel Smiles
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. View quote
J. Michael Straczynski
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. View quote
Angelina Jolie
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. View quote
Cicero
Finding Nirvana is like locating silence. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take. View quote
Christopher Reeve
I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis. (Boris Johnson)
My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive. View quote
Boris Johnson
Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves. View quote
Henry Miller
The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you. View quote
Bette Midler
The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt. View quote
Joseph Addison
You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors. View quote
Arundhati Roy
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. View quote
Ludwig Borne
Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding. View quote
Willa Cather
When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light. View quote
Carol Ann Duffy
Learning is finding out what you already know. View quote
Richard Bach
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers. (Richard Bach)
Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key. View quote
Christopher Nolan
It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life's preciousness on our tiny planet. View quote
Ann Druyan
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. View quote
Oscar Wilde
And always keep a hold of nurse, for fear of finding something worse. View quote
Hilaire Belloc