Findings Quotes - Page 34

• Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.

  Orson Scott Card

  Balance, Misery, Sometimes

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• Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed.

  Haruki Murakami

  Pride, Men, People

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 24, 2015

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• Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us --- and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Ocean, Dedication

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• I liked finding dirt on people. It made all my trespasses seem trivial.

  Lisa Lutz

  People, Dirt, Made

  Lisa Lutz (2011). “Lisa Lutz Spellman Series E-Sampler”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• I trailed off and he didn't push me to finish. I was finding that I liked that.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.115, Penguin

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• Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community.

  Bell Hooks

  Meaningful, Moving, Differences

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.197, Routledge

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• In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind like a piece of overheard gossip or a bit of intriguing tattle. The story process is like taking up such a piece of gossip, hunting down the people actually involved, questioning them, finding out what really occurred, and visiting pertinent locations. As with gossip, you can't be too surprised if important things turn up that were left out of the first-heard version entirely; or if points initially made much of turn out to have been distorted, or simply not to have happened at all.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Real, Writing, Hunting

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• The problem isn't finding out where you are gonna go-its figuring out what you are gonna do once you get there that is! (Jamie Sullivan)

  Nicholas Sparks

  Problem, Jamie, Where You Are

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• I had a weird, empty feeling inside me. Not a bad sort of empty. It was a sort of lack of sensation, like being in pain for a long time and then suddenly realizing that you're not anymore. It was the feeling of having risked everything to be here with a boy and then realizing that he was exactly what I wanted. Being a picture and then finding I was really a puzzle piece, once I found the piece that was supposed to fit beside me.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Pain, Boys, Long

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• Who did she know in Raleigh who took the time off to fix a house? Or read Whitman or Eliot, finding images in the mind, thoughts of the spirit? Or hunted dawn from the bow of a canoe? These weren't the things that drove society, but she felt they shouldn't be treated as unimportant. They made living worthwhile.

  Nicholas Sparks

  House, Mind, Dawn

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• But don’t you find the concept of love unusual? (Alix) Not at all. Love I understand completely. It’s hatred that puzzles me. I don’t comprehend finding pleasure in cruelty. (Vik)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hatred, Unusual, Pleasure

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Ice”, p.193, Macmillan

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• It is so rare in this world to meet a trustworthy person who truly wants to help you, and finding such a person can make you feel warm and safe, even if you are in the middle of a windy valley high up in the mountains.

  Daniel Handler

  Mountain, Valleys, World

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• The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Beautiful, Women, Clothes

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• The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Important, Quests, Decided

  "Interview with Lois McMaster Bujold about writing the Vorkosigan Saga". Interview with Jo Walton, www.tor.com. April 20, 2009.

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• I used to think that when I grew up there wouldn't be so many rules. Back in elementary school there were rules about what entrance you used in the morning, what door you used going home, when you could talk in the library, how many paper towels you could use in the rest room, and how many drinks of water you could get during recess. And there was always somebody watching to make sure. What I'm finding out about growing older is that there are just as many rules about lots of things, but there's nobody watching.

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  Morning, Home, School

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “Alice in Rapture, Sort Of”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• You're terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Inspiration, Worry, Empowering

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• In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

  John Grisham

  Voice, Stories, Heard

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• Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.

  Emily Bronte

  Blood, Broken, Useless

  Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights”, Lulu.com

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• Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life, may be the product of a brain adapted to finding patterns in nature. (38)

  Michael Shermer

  Brain, World, May

  Michael Shermer (2007). “Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design”, p.38, Macmillan

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• A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was from nature alone. It was the choicest gift of Heaven; and Anne viewed her friend as one of those instances in which, by a merciful appointment, it seems designed to counterbalance almost every other want.

  Jane Austen

  Strong, Evil, Heaven

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.300, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help and accepting it, we had to do both to be made complete-like links overlapping to form a chain, or a lock finding the right key.

  Sarah Dessen

  Keys, Breathing, Giving

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.268, Penguin

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• In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely this reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Light, Giving, Lovely

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.13, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible to describe. It was a happy, lucky accident, finding some kindred part of yourself in a total stranger." pg. 287

  Elise Broach

  Art, Lucky, Attention

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• There's always a bit of truth in each rumour, the trouble is finding out which bit. - Tayend

  Trudi Canavan

  Trouble, Rumours, Bits

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• Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to give up all the other important things.

  Paulo Coelho

  Giving Up, Mean, Important

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