Found You Quotes - Page 3

• Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.

  Billy Joel

  Dirty, Quality, Remember

  Song: You May Be Right, Album: Glass Houses, 1980

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• Self-expression is something that you've crafted, something that you've found. You've practiced on that piano for hours, you didn't hang out with your buddies, you didn't go after the girls, you stayed in your own little geeky room or you wrote for hours.

  John Leguizamo

  Girl, Self, Expression

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm mighty glad that I found you. Have a terrific birthday.

  Tehyi Hsieh

  Birthday, Glad, Terrific

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• I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Strong, Powerful, Spring

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't ever forget where God found you.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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• On the day I was signed, Mr. Finley, the owner of the Athletics at that time came up to me and said, 'When you were six you ran away from home, and when your parents found you at a nearby lake, you had already caught two catfish and were pulling in a third. Now repeat it back to me.'

  Catfish Hunter

  Home, Yankees, Two

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• The one thing I've found you really can't joke about - and people think it's death or something - is money. No one thinks it's funny, whether you have it or you don't. Money is just something no one seems to like joking about.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Thinking, People, Jokes

  Interview with Al Norton, 411mania.com. April 23, 2013.

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• Osama bin Laden has hired 10 look-alikes. Now, how hard up do you have to be before you take that job? There's no way to win! If Osama dies, you don't get paid. If you're found, you get killed.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Winning, Looks

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• No one knew where you were before you were born, but when you were born, it wasn't long before you found you'd arrived with your return ticket already punched.

  Terry Pratchett

  Long, Return, Tickets

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: A Novel of Discworld”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Do not be despondent when fighting against the incorporeal enemy, but even in the midst of your afflictions and oppression praise the Lord, Who has found you worthy to suffer for Him, by struggling against the subtlety of the serpent, and to be wounded for Him at every hour; for had you not lived piously, and endeavored to become united to God, the enemy would not have attacked and tormented you.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Struggle, Fighting

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• I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing, nourishing magician's trick, that act of creation is its own light.

  Janette Turner Hospital

  Writing, Dark, Light

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• Superman, Superman, crunchy little Superman. Found you in a Cornflakes box.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Littles, Boxes, Crunchy

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• When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Fire, Sky

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam

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• Anyone who has wrestled knows that it's the hardest thing in the world to do. Anyone who says something else is the hardest thing has never wrestled. That's what I have found. ... You don't wrestle because it's easy, you wrestle because it's hard. I don't do astrophysics because it's easy, I do it because it's hard. And I juxtapose the two in my mind, body, and soul all the time.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Two, Soul, Mind

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• I have passed in ignorance through a cycle of many rebirths, seeking the builder of the house. Continuous rebirth is a painful thing. But now, housebuilder, I have found you out. You will not build me a house again. All your rafters are broken, your ridge-pole shattered. My mind is free from active thought, and has made an end of craving.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Pain, Ignorance

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• Time, which sees all things, has found you out.

  Sophocles

  Literature, Found, All Things

  Sophocles (2012). “Oedipus the King”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.

  Angus Wilson

  Found

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• With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?

  Marcello Mastroianni

  Mother, Arguing, Forgotten

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And it's okay if you have to go away Oh just remember the telephone works both ways And if I never ever hear them ring If nothing else I'll think the bells inside Have finally found you someone else and that's okay Cause I'll remember everything you sang ((You and I both))

  Jason Mraz

  Thinking, Remembers Everything, Going Away

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• Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what your dream is going to be tonight than we can invent a myth. Myths come from the mystical region of essential experience.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Essentials, Tonight

  Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2003). “Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal”, p.19, New World Library

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• Sixty-five seconds," he said. "You weren't breathing for sixty-five seconds after we found you. I lived and died during each one of them." He let out a breath. "Never again.

  Jill Shalvis

  Breathing, Said, Five

  Jill Shalvis, Elle Kennedy (2015). “Time Out & Body Check”, p.108, Harlequin

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• I just found you - I don't want to leave you so soon.

  P. C. Cast

  Want, Found

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Untamed: A House of Night Novel”, p.116, Macmillan

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• True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other

  Keith Richards

  True Friend, Looks, Hardest

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

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Winning, Player

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• Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. Out goes naivete, in comes wisdom; out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes kindness. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive and expansive... The pain leaves you healthier than it found you.

  Martha Beck

  Inspirational, Pain, Kindness

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