Quotes About Finding

Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.

Groucho's definition of politics is Marxism in a nutshell: "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.

This leads to a thoroughly fascinating finding—social conservatives tend toward lower thresholds for disgust than liberals.

I'll be a little riled if I end up being the one to die in the line of duty, because this ain't my duty and it ain't yours, either. This is just fortune hunting." "Well, we wasn't finding one

Kansas City Sunday, August 22, 1915 I'm going to find everyone kind and all the help I need, as usual.

Out there on the edge, the spinning of the Earth had slowed to give us the time we need to start finding each other again.

Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.

Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.

If a man says to you, I have labored and not found, do not believe him. If he says, I have not labored but still have found, do not believe him. If he says, I have labored and found, you may believe him.

You are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can can play the 'Gloria'? No, not Bach's 'Gloria.' Yours! Your 'Gloria' lives within you. The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you.

Watching crowds step off the escalators and onto the concourse, I thought it miraculous that in the midst of so many people, I should ever be able to find her--as well as testimony to the strange particularities of desire that it should be precisely she whom I needed to find.

Searching represents the achievement of the goal of searching. Finding represents the achievement of the goal of finding.

Seekers keep seeking, and finders keep finding.

If it is I who determine where God is to be found, then I shall always find a God who corresponds to me in some way, who is obliging, who is connected with my own nature. But if God determines where he is to be found, then it will be in a place which is not immediately pleasing to my nature and which is not at all congenial to me. This place is the Cross of Christ.

She'd read lots of books about people finding new lives, which hadn't helped her mood either, had made her feel more and more trapped and stuck where she was, as if everyone except her was managing to get away and do interesting things.

On Monday, May 10, the coroner's jury issued its finding: that the submarine's officers and crew and the emperor of Germany had committed "willful and wholesale murder." Half an hour later a message arrived from the Admiralty, ordering Horgan to block Turner from testifying. Horgan wrote, "That august body were however as belated on this occasion as they had been in protecting the Lusitania against attack.

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

Kids have to experiment a little or figure out where they belong.

Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.

He had found humor in darker places.

Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it. D. H. Lawrence1

But what can be found can also be lost. The process of differentiation, creating the possibility of integration, brings into being the lifelong theme of finding and losing, which before now could not have existed.

There's the belief that witty people are cruel, but they are perhaps less dangerous the the adulators who insist upon finding qualities in us which we have no desire to possess.

You know how subtle Brand can be, finding out things without seeming to be after them.