Quotes on Found

They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.

As all those have shown who have discussed civil institutions, and as every history is full of examples, it is necessary to whoever arranges to found a Republic and establish laws in it, to presuppose that all men are bad and that they will use their malignity of mind every time they have the opportunity.

The skillful tactician may be likened to the shuai-jan. Now the shuai-jan is a snake that is found in the Ch'ang mountains. Strike at its head, and you will be attacked by its tail; strike at its tail, and you will be attacked by its head; strike at its middle, and you will be attacked by head and tail both.

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

I find myself born into this particular position. I'm determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.

The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

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

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind and spirit.

[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men. And therewithal, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

When we face seemingly insurmountable obstacles in the fulfillment of righteous responsibilities, we should remember that when we are involved in the work of the Lord, the obstacles before us are never as great as the power behind us. We should reach out and climb. Handholds will only be found by hands that are outstretched. Footholds are only for feet that are on the move.

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

Love of others and love of ourselves are not alternatives. On the contrary, an attitude of love towards themselves will be found in all those who are capable of loving others.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.