I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.

The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

Perhaps like attracts like, and that's why I found myself in a circle of women who are so passionate about making music.

In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.

All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.

Rejoice with those who rejoice." I have found that difficult too often. I was much better at weeping with those who weep.

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian.

A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.

I found every single laugh as Laertes that you can find and only realized later that you really shouldn't find any at all.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.

There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.

You wonder and you wonder until you wander out into Infinity, where - if it is to be found anywhere - Truth really exists.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

The soul is a living, dynamic part of each person. It exists as consciousness and therefore must be found in consciousness.

I placed the Marines where the hardest work was to be accomplished, and I never once found my confidence in them misplaced.

I found I am not an anarchistic form creator; I'm intuitive, and I'm trying to figure out a way to explore human fragility.

We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.

Be willing to face life squarely and get down beneath the surface of life where the verities and realities are to be found.

The truth is that God is to be found in all things - even and most especially in the painful, tragic and unpleasant things.

The truths that are found in the Bible are universal truths. And it shapes who you are and guides you throughout your life.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

What comes, will go. What is found, will be lost again. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description.

Love came when you weren't looking, except in the case of millions who found mates on Match.com, but, hey. It sounded good.

I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.

I took a wrong turn the other day. A mistake, but it led me to the shop where I found the very thing I’d been searching for.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.

Can we ever really know anyone well? Lets just say we often found ourselves in each others company and neither of us minded.

Lovers of Swaraj cannot rest till a solution is found which would allay Mussalman apprehensions and yet not endanger Swaraj.

The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

Most people know what to do, but they don't do what they know - because they haven't found their inner drive. Their passion.

I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate.

The younger you are, the more experimenting you should do. But once you've found what you were created to do, stick with it.

I've found that giving gifts is transformative. It makes me better. It clarifies my thinking and allows me to do better work.

I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.

Stop-and-frisk was found to be unconstitutional and, in part, because it was ineffective. It did not do what it needed to do.

All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.

Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.

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