Existence Quotes - Page 14

• Russia does not have in its possession any trustworthy data that supports the existence of nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we have not received any such information from our partners as yet.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Mass Destruction, Data

  "Putin demands proof over Iraqi weapons". Article by Michael White, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.

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• Do we look like thrill-seekers? Wasn't it enough that we had to put up that sign reading NO HABLA ESPANOL and acknowledge the existence of thirty percent of the population, even in the negative?

  Christopher Moore

  Reading, Negative, Population

  Christopher Moore (2009). “The Lust Lizard Of Melancholy Cove: Book 2: Pine Cove Series”, p.244, Hachette UK

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• I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

  Keanu Reeves

  Sorry, Apology, Sublime

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The facts of his existence are plain. I know that he will never silence those unspeakable voices. He heard how people killed, and how they died and their voices infected him, coursed through his body, poisoned him. He didn't know how to turn off the noise, or turn the hate back out onto the world like the rest of us. He turned it on himself. You could see that from the scars on him.

  Meg Rosoff

  Hate, Voice, People

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• A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.

  Tom Robbins

  Children, Mind, Rooms

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• There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.

  Tom Robbins

  Stories, Seven, Stills

  "Novelist Tom Robbins Plays Not My Job". Interview with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. June 5, 2010.

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• Sometimes I feel like what's hard for fashion designers to do is take looks from off the runway and actually put it into existence, into reality. That's really the hard part.

  ASAP Rocky

  Fashion, Reality, Looks

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• I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.

  Karl Rove

  Morning, New York, Sorry

  The Rush Limbaugh Show Interview, www.rushlimbaugh.com. August 15, 2007.

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• But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.

  Karl Rove

  Looks, Amusement, Towns

  Interview with Mike Allen, www.politico.com. March, 11, 2010.

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• Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.

  Eoin Colfer

  Life, Fowl, Assumption

  Eoin Colfer (2001). “Artemis Fowl”

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• There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.

  Todd Rundgren

  Lying, Order, Everyday

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.

  Richard Russo

  Suicide, Kids, Thinking

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• Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

  Simone Weil

  Thinking, Doe, God Love

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.15, Psychology Press

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• Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled.

  Jerry Saltz

  Cutting, Artist, Ideas

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• The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that.

  Julian Sands

  Yards, Mumbai, Bombay

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. . . . And at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.

  Michael Crichton

  Running, Quality, Errands

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Jurassic Park: A Novel”, p.171, Ballantine Books

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• The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The theological question does not arise about the origin of evil but about the real overcoming of evil on the Cross; it ask for the forgiveness of guilt, for the reconciliation of the fallen world

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Real, Evil, Guilt

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• The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

  George Santayana

  Evil, Optimism, Ruins

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.599, Indiana University Press

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• I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Believe, Men, Concentration

  "Nausea". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938.

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• Existence precedes and rules essence.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophical, Essence

  L'°tre et le n‚ant (Being and Nothingness, 1943) pt. 4, ch. 1

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• Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Men, World, Pretender

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• We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Regret, Missing, Enemy

  "Counsels and Maxims" by Arthur Schopenhauer, vol. 2, ch. 26, sect. 311a, 1851.

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• Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.

  Albert Camus

  Unhappy, Lovers, Cherish

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.97, Vintage

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• You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!

  Emily Bronte

  Forget You, Forget, Knows

  Emily Bronte (1858). “Wuthering Heights”, p.139

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• When we three spoke ourselves into human existences the Son of God, we became fully human. We also chose to embrace all the limitation that this entailed. Even though we have always been present in this created universe, we now became flesh and blood. It would be like this bird (a jay), whose nature it is to fly, choosing to only walk and remain grounded. He doesn't stop being a bird, but it does alter his experience of life significantly.

  William P. Young

  Son, Blood, Bird

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