“If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there is a memory of paradise, paradise can exist, in some other place or country dimensionally reminiscent of our own. The sad stories live there too, but in that country, we know what they mean and why they happened. We make our way back from them, finding the way through a bountiful wilderness we begin to understand. Years are nothing: Story conquers all distance.” IfsKnowsWayYearsMeanCountryFactsStoriesFeelingsMemoriesFictionHappenedFindingsDistanceDetailsVersionsBeing TrueConquerParadiseWildernessTransformedSad Story Author:Jayne Anne Phillips
“Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.” ShouldSoulDoneHappensCarePastHappenedOne ThingFindingsLifetimeGenuine Author:Leo Tolstoy
“I believe God did create the world. And I think we're finding out more and more and more as to how it actually happened.” ThinkingWorldBelieveHumorPoliticalI BelieveHappenedFindingsBelieve In GodPolitical Humor Author:George W. Bush
“My adoptive mother tirelessly worked most of her life to build up my self-esteem. So what happened was finding her started to shed light and destroy my mythos. So for the first year of knowing her, my mom kind of actually literally visited me in Detroit and kind of gave me a tour of my life - where I was conceived, where I was born, where she found out she was pregnant. It was amazing, Terry, and very emotional.” YearsFirstsKindSelfLightMotherFoundBornKnowingHappenedSelf EsteemEmotionalMomFindingsMy MomEsteemPregnantShedDetroitWere Pregnant Author:Keegan-Michael Key
“I did not imagine myself working with Luis Estrada or with the Wachowski Brothers and these are things that have happened to me and I am very satisfied. I hope to keep on finding interesting projects and interesting stories.” StoriesInterestingImagineHappenedBrotherFindingsProjectsSatisfiedInteresting Stories Author:Alfonso Herrera
“There's never been a great fight without the writers taking on and finding an identity for it. That's probably what has happened boxing. Writers are not writing about us big boys anymore and I tell you right, however you feel, take something, find it, and use it because American needs something to read about.” NeedsFeelsWritingUseBigsFightingBoysHappenedIdentityTelevisionFindingsBoxing Author:George Foreman
“It would be nice if this [finding really cheap stocks] happened all the time. Unfortunately, it doesn't.” IfsWould BeNiceHappenedFindingsBeing Nice Author:Charlie Munger
“Finding the form was really a very dynamic process. I went through a lot of shifting, trying to get it right. Because the writing took place over such a long time, it's hard for me to pinpoint when specific things happened, but basically the final version only materialized in the last two or so years. It was there, but it took me a while to see it and then to refine it after I'd seen it.” WritingTryingYearsLongTwoHardLastsFormProcessHappenedFindingsLong TimeFinalsThings HappenVersionsShifting Author:Danielle Dutton