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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.

It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank.

People understand we have a dependence upon foreign oil. What they do not understand and find incredibly ridiculous is that we import refined product just making us more dependent on the industry.

The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bring or the Earth, which is looking down upon us all the time. And to find orange soil on the moon was a surprise.

Perhaps, when we examine the causes of many social changes and political upheavals, we will find the marks of its presence and its principal ideals.

People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it.

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.

If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.

I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.

That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children.

Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.

I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.

I moved to L.A., and people said that I would never find work, that I would never find good friends, and I feel like I was fortunate enough to find the work, but it wouldn't mean anything unless I had a group of people who could appreciate it.

Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.

No one is ever really dead unless we find the body.

But we will lose the millions of records being created daily in a dizzying array of electronic forms unless we find a way to preserve and keep them accessible indefinitely.

The odd thing is if you asked me to do the accent now I would find it very difficult unless I was also playing that part, because I associate it so much with entering into the role and stepping into someone else's shoes.

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

What I advise clients is, sell, pay the tax and be happy. Don't ask me to find a replacement unless it's land.

When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university.

I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States.