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The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public.

We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.

Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.

Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

One finds limits by pushing them.

Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds them lying interrelated about him.

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you.

The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.

In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.

From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.