If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.


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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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CHRISTOPHER ORLET
we generally find pleasure to be not nearly so pleasant as we expected, and pain very much more pain...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
We thought we might find at least another handful of new species. It was amazing to get 27.
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There is a very low probability we will find anything new. We might find some additional definition ...
WARREN RUDMAN
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LARRY ROGERS
If we don't go forward, we won't find anything.
SHIRO AMANO
We shall never have friends, if we expect to find them without fault
THOMAS FULLER
He who seeks truth, shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty, shall find vanity. He who seeks order, s...
MOSHE SAFDIE
If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS
If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS...
People are attracted to who we are more than what we do.
LORRIN L. LEE
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised t...
SAMUEL BUTLER
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall long be surprised to fi...
SAMUEL BUTLER
If you don't find something to do, you don't want to find something to do.
ELTON REECE
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
ANTON CHEKHOV
If you do not begin to search, then you cannot find anything
SUNDAY ADELAJA
When shall we find his equal?
UNKNOWN
We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
ANTON CHEKHOV
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL
We have to be the bearers of bad news and if we find anything we would be a God send to find him.
LOU AMIGHETTI
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
BLAISE PASCAL
Life is very strange. Here we miss the very thing that we crave for and cling to, and we find what w...
OSHO
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
We all do not know what actually we look for in life,but we all find something missing in life.
ANUJ SOMANY
We don't know. If they tell you you can't live there anymore, then what? We looked at living here, b...
JEANNETTE ALFONSO
We don't do anything easy, but at least today we created opportunities,
BRUCE BOCHY
It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we canno...
DALAI LAMA
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future
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We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this p...
RUDOLF STEINER
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LEMMY KILMISTER
Imagine for a moment a world with only you living in it. Would it be worth living in? We are all cre...
AVIS JOHN
We checked at 5:30 this morning and we couldn't find anything. Just wet streets.
JOEY SMITH
It buys us a little time and I hope to find something more realistic, ... At least we have a permit....
SHARON BLACK
We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.
ROWAN WILLIAMS
Change must come before it's too late, the nature destroyed forever we shall not find.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE
There are some with whom we may study in common, but we shall find them unable to go along with us t...
CONFUCIUS
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
If we find somebody within that group we like, we'll go with them. If not, we'll do it again.
BEVERLY DEGORY
Unless we learn to criticize friends, we shall never find true ones.
TARIF NAAZ
If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
JIM ROHN
We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
If at first don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
BILL LYON
The auditors will look at that and the entire software program and always find something, then repor...
ANDREW BEVERIDGE
We let one slip away. We've got to find a way to make plays. At least we will have Gates.
DONNIE EDWARDS
You can always find in Scriptures a passage to misquote for almost anything, ... something very stra...
JAMES INHOFE
These beads are just a little too plastic. We don't do anything that is not at least glass.
SCOTT TEPPER
The moment we accept each other as Human beings, we shall find harmony.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
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MADELEINE L'ENGLE
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OLIVIER THEYSKENS
If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
BILL LYON
If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything
BILL LYON
If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS
Temptations, when we first meet them, are like a lion that roared at Samson; but if we overcome them...
JOHN BUNYAN
If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to...
KRISTIN HANNAH
The key word is innovation. You may get something at least as good as what you wanted that you didn'...
DON SNOW
We have a chance to do something new again here, this season, if we stay at it.
MIKE HOLMGREN
At least I find solace in searching.
JUSTIN WETCH
We did our due diligence. We could not find anything that would turn the city away.
MIKE ANTHONY
We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet w...
PICO IYER
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manife...
WILLIAM BARTRAM
We're gonna have to do something, I don't know what it is. We can't find that break right now, and i...
JAMELLE CORNLEY
We didn't find anything - which is reassuring.
SCOTT WATSON
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JOHN BUNYAN
Rereading, we find a new book.
MASON COOLEY
This is something that could be very valuable if it works, no doubt about it. But don't tell me we s...
IRVING WEISSMAN
I lost everything. We can't even find my car. I'm looking through this wreckage to see if I can find...
LANDON WILLIAMS
I lost everything. We can't even find my car. I'm looking through this wreckage to see if I can find...
LANDON WILLIAMS
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
QUINTILIAN
The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. ...
RICHARD BACH
Do something more with your life; adventure; travel the world; find new hobbies; learn something new...
TEGAN GENEVIEVE JONES
We do not assume the men at Duke lacrosse are guilty. Yet we are not surprised they find themselves ...
EARL SMITH
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is noth...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.
BLYTHE DANNER
That's the way it's been all year. Every game, we find new ways to win. We're always finding somethi...
DEENA APPLEBURY
In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to...
WENDELL L. WILLKIE
If he can't find something that suits him, he may be back. So again, we have not severed that relati...
FLOYD REESE
If you really want to do something you will find a way.If you don’t you will find an excuse.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with an...
THOMAS MERTON
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with anot...
THOMAS MERTON
Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL
We as a society hate very easily but why do we find it hard to love
STEVEN ESPINOSA
We find ways to win. Even when we?re not at our best - like tonight - these girls find ways to win.
DENNIS FOWLER
It is almost never possible to do pre-licensing studies that are large enough to find very rare even...
ROBERT LOWELL
It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel d...
HELEN KELLER
If you really want to do something you will find a way, and if you don't you will find an excuse -Ji...
JACOB KEESECKER
Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO
We may travel the world over to find a good spot,
But if we are blind to search within, we find...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed,...
MOLIERE
It's not necessarily unusual to find something new, but that doesn't make this less spectacular. Man...
DARRELL UBICK
It would be a remarkable life if we live it in the same manner as we do once we find out we do not h...
FAISAL KHOSA
When we search the unsearchable we find something unbelievable.
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