Quotes About Discovery

You were looking for somebody, and there was somebody, and you would convince yourself that this random person was what you were really looking for in the first place.

He became quiet. It is always a special moment when you raise a submarine's periscope, because that is when you find out where you are. You hope that you have come up in the right place, but you can never be absolutely sure. So if your hands shake a little as the periscope rises above the waves, and if you feel your heart thump a bit more loudly, then that is entirely normal.

I think that may just be coincidence," Ulf said. "Sometimes we stumble over the truth. We think we find it, but it finds us.

Sometimes people simply did not want to find things out. Nobody was missing, nobody was cheating on their wives, nobody was embezzling. At such times, a private detective may as well hand a closed sign on the office door and go plant melons.

Sometimes the truth can't be put on anybody's bill," Mma Makutsi pronounced, and then continued, "but it's still important to get to it, Mma—to get to the truth behind all the…all the things that cover up the truth.

There are roads to Damascus, she told herself. People travel on them.

Families come in different ways... sometimes they are given to you, but sometimes you find them yourself, unexpectedly, as you go through life.

been able to find out what the really big questions are.

the finding of a cargo of whisky was, in a sense, like the finding by the Israelites of manna in the wilderness. And

The voices of the children were pure; their hearts were pure. Some of them had already discovered how hard life could be; others had yet to do so and probably did not fully understand what the world could be.

He had been looking in quite the wrong place-a place of darkness-when he should have been looking in a place of light.

To "seek inspiration" has always seemed to me a ridiculous and absurd fancy: inspiration cannot be sought out; it must find the poet. For

Começa a ler, a mente se solta. Vira as páginas vorazmente; Vê se abrir um mundo diferente.

Beaupré, in his native country, had been a hairdresser, then a soldier in Prussia, and then had come to Russia to be outchitel, without very well knowing the meaning of this word.3

No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....

Time was the first thing I noticed about the United States.

We drink the barely cool locally brewed Mosi from the leaky mildew-smelling fridge, keeping an eye out for UFOs, unidentified floating objects, in the bottles.

I landed on a carpet of moss and looked up at pieces of torn sky breaking through a dense roof of foliage.

Follow me. He who lives will see. - D'Artagnan

Never be afraid of opportunities, always be on the lookout for adventures.

Make your life a magical journey of Life, encountering Life.

Life isn't about finding the answers, life is about knowing there are always more questions.

Each truth we find (in life) leads us a step closer to God.

Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.