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Quotes About Discovery

we are all sorry when we are discovered. Then we are very sorry.It's not the question if we're sorry. The question is did we draw a lesson? The question is: what are we going to do now, when we're sorry?
~ J.M. Coetzee
in the night I took a lantern and went to see for myself.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Las matemáticas que hemos inventado o descubierto, de las que creemos o esperamos que sean una llave para acceder a la estructura del universo, muy bien podrían ser igualmente un lenguaje privado con el que garabateamos en los muros de nuestra caverna
~ J.M. Coetzee
poetry takes you either now or never. A flash of discovery and a flash of answers. Like the lighting. Like the falling in love.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Il mondo continua farci delle sorprese. E noi continuiamo a imparare.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Igual que a los demás niños, al joven David no le interesa la x. Lo que quiere es estar en el mundo, experimentar esa sensación de estar vivo que le resulta tan nueva y excitante.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Yo soy huérfano de verdad. Las manos no es un orfanato de verdad. –A mí me parece bastante real. ¿Cómo piensas que es un orfanato de verdad? –Todavía no lo sé. Cuando lo vea, lo reconoceré.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Mirad, leed este libro y todas vuestras preguntas encontrarán respuesta». O «Mirad, he aquí una vida nueva para vosotros».
~ J.M. Coetzee
Aha! Lassiter pointed at the boob tube. You motherfucker! I knew you were the father!
~ J.R. Ward
Course, I always knew you were a royal. Just didn't know it went past the pain-in-the-ass part.
~ J.R. Ward
Destiny had a 518 area code..who knew. - Ehlena
~ J.R. Ward
In the center was a tiny handprint in red paint.
~ J.R. Ward
Because when I looked at you across that table at the diner, no one else existed. And whether or not anything happens between you and me, it took meeting you to show me what I was missing.
~ J.R. Ward
Turned out Qhuinn was a snuggler. Who knew—and how fabulous.
~ J.R. Ward
He went over to the leathers and picked them up. Nice Catholic boy like him didn't know much about BDSM, but it looked like he was going to learn firsthand. Taking out his cellphone, he hit V, but didn't expect an answer. He guessed GPS was going to have to come in handy once again.
~ J.R. Ward
Destiny is not a straightaway. It's cluttered with corners and all of them are dark. We make the turns we do...and find ourselves where we are.
~ J.R. Ward
At this moment in time," came the hiss in his ear, "we know two things. But only one of them is a game changer.
~ J.R. Ward
I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came…and I was awakened.
~ J.R. Ward
Where were they—oh, right. The kitchen. In the Audience House. He had come in the back. So he could come…in the back.
~ J.R. Ward
your quest?" Darius stepped inside. "I should
~ J.R. Ward
Some things are destined to be— it just takes us a couple of tries to get there.
~ J.R. Ward
I'm going to talk to her." "And how's that going to go? You're just going to walk up to her and say, 'Hey, I know you've never seen me before, but I'm your dad. Oh, and guess what? You've won the evolutionary lottery: You're a vampire. Let's go to Disneyland!'" "I hate you right now." -Darius & Tohrment
~ J.R. Ward
Butch O'Neal, he thought, you have found your woman.
~ J.R. Ward
I think people who survive need to get to an aha moment," she said quietly, "where the fog lifts and you realize there are things worth living for and goals worth pursuing. Even if they're different than what motivated you before.
~ J.R. Ward