#discover

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life. ↗

— Tobey Maguire

#beauty #because #character #discovered #happiness

My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula. ↗

— Cameron Mackintosh

#batting #because #brilliant #discovered #formula

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#agencies #appetite #both #century #congenial

While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#been #chosen #circumstances #continue #day

What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#colours #confirmed #discovered #i #likes

When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, 'My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.' ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

#attitude #back #board #cannot #career

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence. ↗

— Voltaire

#existence #find #god #his #i

I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#assassinations #attended #dedication #discovered #each

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#bring #discover #others #ourselves #out

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#camps #concentration #die #discovered #everyone