Discovering Quotes

“Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Scars Of Beauty

“Women emerging like aliens in a hesitant future, in a men’s world with impervious codes, may feel like dots in an uncharted territory. Discovering the crucial points, which don't line up with the unbearability of reality, may be a key to the right compass in life. ( "Terra incognita")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don’t know about and don’t understand. [...] There are always new things to find out if you go looking for them.”
― David Attenborough

“To judge someone is to say that I have the right to define who they are, verses understanding that God has handed me the priceless privilege of discovering who they are.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I was going to remember, or discover, where everything came from. I was going to do the subtle, monstrous thing where you figured out what you were doing, and why.”
― Elif Batuman, Either/Or

“Advice to explorers everywhere: if you would like to recieve due credit for your discoveries, keep a detailed account of your journeys as Columbus did. On Septemeber 28, 1492, after four weeks at sea, he writes: Dear diary...I means journal. Yes, dear journal. That's what I meant to say. Whew. Anyway, we have yet to discover America, and the crew has become increasingly rebellious. I have decided to turn back if we have not spotted it by Columbus Day. Will write again later if not killed by crew. P.S. Last night's buffet was fabulous, the ice sculptures magnificent.”
― Cuthbert Soup, Another Whole Nother Story

“Try to put well into practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.”
― Rembrandt

“But that tech also led to nuclear power, cancer treatments and long-range space exploration, right? Tech can be good and bad.”
― Rick Riordan, Daughter of the Deep

“If we’re missing life it’s probably because we’re expecting it to reveal itself to us, rather than realizing that life is revealed by us looking for it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“But Aladdin says nothing.
Instead, he lowers his face and softly kisses the side of my neck, his mouth trailing up to the skin behind my ear. Goose bumps break across my skin, and I turn my face to meet his lips with mine. This kiss is gentler than our last, long and slow and restrained. It is a kiss of longing. A kiss of farewell. His hands tighten around my waist, pulling me against him. We drift in a slow circle, sending out ripples that make the floating flowers bob and dip.
“You keep so many secrets,” he murmurs. “I could spend the rest of my life discovering you.” He tucks my hair behind my ear, his eyes devouring my face.”
― Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish

“The uncertainty of the future is a great blessing for us humans! Let the road ahead of us be completely unknown for us so that we can have the marvellous joy of discovering it!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Temping in the temple of another tempo.”
― Alain Bremond-Torrent, running is flying intermittently

“She actually found it on the first page.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders

“He felt like a character in a book. He thought of Mary Lennox as she discovered her secret garden.
The blackberry bushes had become too thick to ride through and Percy dismounted, leaving Prince beneath the shade of a thick-trunked oak tree. He chose a strong whip of wood and started carving his way through the knotted vines. He was no longer a boy whose legs didn't always do as he wished; he was Sir Gawain on the lookout for the Green Knight, Lord Byron on his way to fight a duel, Beowulf leading an army upon Grendel. So keen was his focus on his swordplay that he didn't realize at first that he'd emerged from the forested area and was standing now on what must have been the top of a gravel driveway.
Looming above him was not so much a house as a castle. Two enormous floors, with mammoth rectangular windows along each face and an elaborate stone balustrade of Corinthian columns running around all four sides of its flat roof. He thought at once of Pemberley, and half expected to see Mr. Darcy come striding through the big double doors, riding crop tucked beneath his arm as he jogged down the stone steps that widened in an elegant sweep as they reached the turning circle where he stood.”
― Kate Morton, Homecoming

“Unless it is you, finding out who your lover’s dream lover is is a nightmare.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Discovering your personal promised land may not be an easy task”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Discovering your God-given purpose does not necessarily put you in a place of omniscience.”
― D.S. Mashego

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you'll never discover new materials from new Indie Authors. Who are just waiting for YOU to discover them...”
― CeDany

“Once I've mastered the art of pretending that I don't care what other kids think of me, I start to pay attention in class, discovering that I love library research for history term papers about ancient lands. It feels like a form of time travel.”
― Margarita Engle, Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings

“One, needs not, to travel, for discovering God and love; since God lives in its aorta and love breathe and beat, in its heartbeat.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Defeat is foundation for discovering what lies hidden in the dark.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Difficulty is path to discovering.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Discovering lies in dreams.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“There were a lot of stressed out people in the company as we were discovering how dangerous the DeSoto Solar Farm was!”
― Steven Magee

“The depth of dreams lies in discovering.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“How do I plan a future when my past is fuzzy, I’m uncertain about today, and the best I can do is to hazard a ‘best-guess’ about tomorrow? With God, the answer rests not in creating a plan but discovering one.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The 2019 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded for discovering how ‘Hypoxia Inducible Factor’ senses and adapts cellular response to oxygen availability.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Dreaming is necessary for discovering.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Cartea este doar degetul indică spre luna strălucitoare și misterioasă de pe cer. Odată zărite petele de pe lună, este preferabil să uităm de deget.”
― Gabriel Purcăruș, Corectopia: cum supraviețuim în cușca diversității

“I love the experience of discovering something new, as if the world is full of Easter eggs if you look close enough. Tiny zips of awe run through me when I learn things.”
― Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company