Quotes of: Founding-fathers Keyword

You know you've found your calling, when you would rather do it and fail, than not do it.

Happy Hour is 9 to 5

I loved begging him, following his rules. I loved the freedom I found in complete capitulation.

The Hooker and the Hermit

I have always found that it is far more convenient to be rich rather than to be poor.

Burning Lamp (Arcane Society, #8)

It was then I thought of Corsica, the place we had discovered together. I craved the wind, the sun and salt, the simplicity of the island.

The Book of Lost and Found

Sono ricordi da trattare con delicatezza per non sporcarli o gualcirli, come oggetti fragili che rischiano di rompersi se li maneggi troppo a lungo

The Book of Lost and Found

I found that when it hurt, sometimes the most effective response was to feel the pain rather than wish it away or pretend it was not there.

Behind the Hospital

But charity is the PURE LOVE OF CHRIST, and it endureth forever; and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him. Moroni 7

The Book of Mormon

Sometimes, in a daze, they completely dismantled the cadaver, then found themselves hard put to it to fit the pieces together again.

Bouvard and Pecuchet

He found himself inhabiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

Beautiful Ruins

I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.

Beauty

JOH! Thank God I found you.” “I have 9022 gods listed in my database. Must I thank all of them?

Beyond

...her very kindness was cruel because it was founded not on love but on reason...

Collected Short Stories: Volume 1

I found at an early age the times when I learned the most about myself was when I got thrown out there on a stage in front of a microphone when you didn't really want to be out there, where you're kind of afraid.

Andrew Shue

I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother.

Barbara Windsor

Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.

Dennis Prager

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

Robert Louis Stevenson

As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that m...

Chris Ware

'Entourage' is almost required watching in L.A., and everyone seems to have story suggestions for the show itself, which is amazing because it makes you realize the show's really struck a chord and found its audience.

Kevin Connolly

I found it amazing people can think that art must be connected to religion. Religion may give art themes, but there would still be art without religion. Bach is not proof that art exists.

Michel Onfray

When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations.

Ben Horowitz

Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland.

P. J. O'Rourke