Finding Quotes

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

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

I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.

Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

Friendship either finds or makes equals.

The ultimate is finding a place where you have no inhibitions, nothing to hide, where you can learn with one another.

If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.