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Findings Quotes (page 169)

To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Pearl S. Buck
God,' she cried, 'what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth weigh! She couldn't tell me the truth because she had never planned it; her life was a continual accident, and how can you prepare for that? Everything we can't bear in the world, some day we find in one person, and love it all at once.... There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purty's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I... Djuna Barnes
The limits of variation are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of women's coiffure and the favourite love-stories in prose and verse. Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary-footed kind. Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heart-beats and sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are dispersed among hindrances,... George Eliot
We can also allow our Soulmate to pass us by, without accepting him or her, or even noticing. Then we will need another incarnation in order to find that Soulmate. And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness. Paulo Coelho
In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain–I find no sea room—but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore. Henry David Thoreau
If there's no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know," he went on [...]; "I seem to see some meaning in them, after all. Lewis Carroll
It has made me better loving you... it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. I used to want a great many things before, and to be angry that I did not have them. Theoretically, I was satisfied. I flattered myself that I had limited my wants. But I was subject to irritation; I used to have morbid sterile hateful fits of hunger, of desire. Now I really am satisfied, because I can’t think of anything better. It’s just as when one has been trying to spell out a book in the twilight, and... Henry James
Pam's father had been diagnosed with rectal cancer. It didn't surprise me. Put a bunch of white assholes together and you're going to find that going around. Stephen King
Dave Barry quote: "No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it..."
No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously. Dave Barry
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the..."
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. J. R. R. Tolkien
Archibald MacLeish quote: "The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind...."
The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse. Archibald MacLeish
Itzhak Perlman quote: "Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music..."
Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left. Itzhak Perlman
Robert A. Heinlein quote: "Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men..."
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. Robert A. Heinlein
When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different kinds; there's only one kind. It uses about fifty fundamental biological building blocks, organic molecules. Carl Sagan
The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age. Plato

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