Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hill Harper

Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office.

Shekhar Kapur

In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories we tell ourselves are the stories that define the potentialities of our existence. We are the stories we tell ourselves.

Amos Lee

Every time I write a song I feel really lucky and kind of surprised. Not surprised that I wrote it, but just surprised that things exist that you don't know about.

Elie Wiesel

It's clear to me that one can't be Jewish without Israel. Religious or non-religious, Zionist or non-Zionist, Ashkenazi or Sephardic - all these will not exist without Israel.

Judith Butler

Identifying Israel with Jewry obscures the existence of the small but important post-Zionist movement in Israel, including the philosophers Adi Ophir and Anat Biletzki, the sociologist Uri Ram, the professor of theatre Avraham Oz and the poet Yitzhak Laor.

There's a real existential anxiety at having to exist not just in a generalised social framework, but a capitalist social framework.

The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess.

Jim Wright

We see many opportunities to expand into new markets and further penetrate our existing footprint, and are on track to reach our long-term target of at least 1,300 Tractor Supply locations nationwide.

Alber Elbaz

When you come into a house like Saint Laurent, or Chanel, or Lanvin, and you go into a place that existed before you were born and will exist after you die, it takes some time to get in, to get to people, and to get the energy of the place.

Howard Wilkinson

We are seeking a development that is better suited to an existing semi-rural neighborhood and in keeping with that. No one is saying there should be no development, but that development should be in keeping with the surrounding neighborhood.

FKA twigs

It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in the Internet at all.

Imre Kertesz

If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.

Christopher Nolan

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.

Douglas Coupland

Given the infinite number of coincidences that could happen, very few ever actually do. The universe exists in a coincidence-hating state of anti-fluke.

If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states.

Elsa Maxwell

Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished.

We learned there was existing law in West Virginia about requiring documentation for workers, but there was no teeth to it.

We're still unknown, ... We're still the new guys in Bluffton, so the town doesn't know we exist yet.

We're looking at an innovative non-standard way to float the company, that may involve giving existing shareholders priority in any offering. We're not ruling anything out.

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective.

Brian Wilson

My mother used to tell me about vibrations. I didn't really understand too much of what that meant when I was just a boy. To think that invisible feelings, invisible vibrations existed scared me to death.

Adelina Sotnikova

Yes, I am the Olympic champion, but this is not the end of it. I want all the gold that there is out there, everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions.

Andrew Cohen

We have to be willing to give up all the injustices of the past that did exist - and that do exist right now. When we become interested in liberation, we then become interested in that which transcends time.

This regime exists in large part because it has the strong support of Russia.

We're trying to fill that void that exists in Rancho Cordova.

We were selling tickets for seats that didn't even exist yet.

We have been lucky because we have been able to learn from some of the lessons of the existing academies.

We would lose a whole family, ... would be like they never existed ... such a waste, irreversible.

I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.

Marcus Aurelius

Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it has already ceased to be.

Peter Kreeft

You don't have to convince Muslims of God's existence or importance.

Konrad Lorenz

In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the existence of the species.

Reinhold Niebuhr

All known existence points beyond itself.