Findings Quotes - Page 38

• It's all well and good saying you avoid pain by avoiding relationships, but what about the wonderful things you're avoiding as well? What about the joy and the intimacy and the trust that come with finding someone you love?

  Jane Green

  Pain, Joy, Someone You Love

  Jane Green (2000). “Bookends”, p.185, Penguin UK

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• A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to.

  John F. Kennedy

  Girl, Real, Sleep

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• What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?

  Hermann Hesse

  Too Much, Should, Should I

  Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha”, p.100, Jaico Publishing House

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• There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot

  Agatha Christie

  Mean, Justice, Important

  Agatha Christie (1974). “Murder on board: including The mystery of the Blue Train, What Mrs. McGillicuddy saw! [and] Death in the air”, Dodd Mead

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• Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have lids that can instinctively close against the words uttered, they can’t hide from what they sense they’re about to hear, it’s always too late.

  Javier Marías

  Mean, Knowing, Listening

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• It wasn't the tattoo that had changed her, had given her repossession of her body. It was her actions, her choices. It was finding the path when it looked like there weren't any paths to be found.

  Melissa Marr

  Tattoo, Choices, Body

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• I think that the idea of finding another person to share your life with is the most fascinating, beautiful quest you could ever be on in life. And yes, living your dreams is so important too, and a lot of times I’ve put that before everything else. But then you get to a place where the whole time you’re living these dreams, you look beside you to say to someone, “Hey, isn’t this so much fun?” And if there’s no one there to say it to, what’s the point?

  Taylor Swift

  Beautiful, Dream, Fun

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• If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Facts, Authority, Abandon

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• My version of an Irish exit has an air of deception to it, because it includes my asking loudly, “Where’s the bathroom?” and making theatrical looking-around gestures like a lost foreign tourist. But then, instead of finding the bathroom, I sneakily grab my coat and leave.

  Mindy Kaling

  Air, Deception, Exit

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• In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable. I was experiencing seducer's paradox: The better a seducer I became, the less I loved women. Success was no longer defined by getting laid or finding a girlfriend, but by how well I performed.

  Neil Strauss

  Girlfriend, Facts, Paradox

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.154, Canongate Books

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• Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It’s hard sometimes.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Integrity, Mean, Reality

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• The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.

  Guy Davenport

  Perception, World, Acres

  Guy Davenport (1997). “The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays”, p.192, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Friends don't get jealous of each other or begrudge the other for finding success. They celebrate every victory together.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Jealous, Victory, Together

  Karen Kingsbury (2009). “The Baxters Take One”, p.94, Zondervan

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• You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement. Do not look at others' bodies with envy or with superiority. All people are born with different constitutions. Never compare with others. Each one's capacities are a function of his or her internal strength. Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Mistake, Yoga, People

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom". Book by B. K. S. Iyengar, 2005.

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• I also fear that nothing really ends at the end. Things just keep going as long as memory can wield its ax, always finding a soft part in your mind to cut through and enter.

  Markus Zusak

  Memories, Cutting, Long

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• We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Men

  Address on the 4th of July, delivered 4 July 1899, London, England

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• From the moment I first saw him— saw through his stunning and impossibly gorgeous exterior to the dark and dangerous man inside— I’d felt the pull that came from finding the other half of myself. I needed him like I needed my heart to beat, and he’d put himself in great jeopardy, risking everything— for me.

  Sylvia Day

  Heart, Dark, Men

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.522, Penguin

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• Following your heart means allowing the possibility of finding true love to be stronger than the fear of rejection.

  Susane Colasanti

  Heart, Mean, Rejection

  Susane Colasanti (2013). “All I Need”, p.39, Penguin

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• Sometimes the way to do what you hope to do will be clear cut, and sometimes it will be almost impossible to decide whether or not you are doing the correct thing, because you'll have to balance your goals and hopes with feeding yourself, paying debts, finding work, settling for what you can get.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cutting, Goal, Balance

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.412, Hachette UK

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• In every creepy movie ever made, the barn is the prime nesting ground for the things you don't know you're looking for and always regret finding.

  Rick Yancey

  Regret, Creepy, Barns

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• It always struck Fire, the physical affection between these siblings, who as often as not were at each other's throats over one thing or another. She liked the way the four of them shifted and changed shape, bumping and clanging against one another, sharpening each other's edges and then smoothing them down again, and somehow always finding the way to fit together.

  Kristin Cashore

  Sibling, Fire, Together

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• Rat race is the perfect name for it,' she said. 'We're always going and going and going, and never asking where. Did you ever hear of having more than you wanted? So that you couldn't want anything else and then started looking for something else to want? It seems like we're always searching for something to satisfy is, and never finding it. Maybe if we could lose our cool we would.

  S. E. Hinton

  Names, Race, Perfect

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• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.

  Aberjhani

  Dream, Kings, Humanity

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• Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Cat

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• "What about him?" she’d say, finding an attractive guy to point out while they were standing in the lunch line. "Do you want to kiss him?" "I don’t want to kiss a stranger," Cath would answer. "I’m not interested in lips out of context."

  Rainbow Rowell

  Kissing, Lunch, Guy

  "Fangirl". Book by Rainbow Rowell, September 10, 2013.

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