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Might one not say that in the chance combination of nature's production, since only those endowed with certain relations of suitability could survive, it is no cause for wonder that this suitability is found in all species that exist today? Chance, o...

Pierre-Louis Moreau De Maupertuis

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he ...

The Kite Runner

There are powers far beyond us, plans far beyond what we could have ever thought of, visions far more vast than what we can ever see on our own with our own eyes, there are horizons long gone beyond our own horizons. This is courage- to throw away wh...

C. JoyBell C.

I looked long and hard for the paper roses! I found the reddest red ribbon, and a little golden card! We were all there together, many of us, in the same place; but I was the only one who found the paper roses, the only one who chose the reddest red ...

C. JoyBell C.

[lying in bed, Lynn touches a scar on Bud's shoulder] Lynn Bracken: Where'd this come from? Bud White: When I was twelve, my old man went after my mother with a bottle. I got in the way. Lynn Bracken: You saved her. Bud White: ...Not for long. Lynn B...

L.A. Confidential

Dr. Peter Silberman: Why this elaborate scheme with the Terminator? Kyle Reese: It had no choice. Their defense grid was smashed. We'd won. Taking out Connor then would make no difference. Skynet had to wipe out his entire existence! Dr. Peter Silber...

The Terminator

One need not believe in Pallas Athena, the virgin goddess, to be overwhelmed by the Parthenon. Similarly, a man who rejects all dogmas, all theologies and all religious formulations of beliefs may still find Genesis the sublime book par excellence. E...

Walter Kaufmann

I'd found him, and he was mine - cute little bugger that he was, messed up glasses, funky shoes and all.

The Changelings

Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.

Clockwork Princess

Some people fight fire with fire. I've found water to be more effective.

Confessions of a Virgin Sacrifice

...And meanwhile the Galaxy ran through space and left behind those signs old and new and I still hadn't found mine.

Cosmicomics

Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning. .

Cry Wolf

nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents.

Democracy in America Volume 1

Joy is found in simple things.

Dancing with God: First Year Thoughts on the Loss of My Daughter

I suspected you were tired of looking for things you should have found a long time ago. ~ Jared

Dare Me

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

Dreamtigers

Dragonsbane, they called him. Slayer of dragons. Or a dragon, anyway. And, he'd later found out, not such a very big one at that.

Dragonsbane

Dictators long ago found that it is easier to unite people in common hatred than in common love.

A Dictionary of Thought

Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.

The Diviners

Few ever found enlightenment in haste, and nobody will ever discover it in gibberish

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

An Essay on Criticism