Top 1200 Merely Existing Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.

nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die.

A tapper sticks to existing routines. Whereas hoofing... a hoofer pushes the art form.

New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake of supposing that phonetic writing merely made it possible for the Greeks to set down in visual order what they had though and known before writing. In the same way printing made literature possible. It did not merely encode literature.

Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.

Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

In the past, no one paid any serious attention, even to the existing laws that protect animals.

Agony is truth its our connection to the living I accept it as perfection and keep on existing in the now

Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.

I have definitely refocused Lowercase Capital on later-stage deals and my existing portfolio.

The distinction between male and female will never stop existing. We are not alike, and I wouldn't want to be.

To cover the fact that a central bank is merely a cartel which has been legalized, its proponents had to lay down a thick smoke screen of technical jargon focusing always on how it would supposedly benefit commerce, the public, and the nation... there was not the slightest glimmer that underneath it all, was a master plan which was designed from top to bottom to serve private interests at the expense of the public... the system is merely a cartel with a government facade.

It's very irresponsible to deny the reality of a problem to see whether it might stop existing.

Take love as a sober man takes wine; do not become a drunkard. If your mistress is sincere and faithful, love her for that; but if she is not, if she is merely young and beautiful, love her for that; if she is agreeable and spirituelle, love her for that; if she is none of these things but merely loves you, love her for that. Love does not come to us every day.

Thanks to President Obama, being a woman will no longer be a pre-existing condition!

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought.

I donate money to the existing foundation that funds the US Ski Team kids.

To be existing at all is beautiful simply because of how complicated and unexplainable being alive really is.

Neurogenesis continues throughout life and we have the capacity to establish new neural pathways and strengthen existing ones.

We believe existing currencies may move into becoming more of a crypto-currency.

It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time.

I’d have thought 50,000 years of existing on the continent would have qualified as settled.

In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.

Just because something doesn't confirm your existing beliefs does not mean it's a hoax.

It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.

I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.

You shouldn't feel judged when you are dancing or singing at the top of your lungs or existing in a maximum-expression way.

Nothing less will shake a man — or at any rate a man like me — out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.

Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human. As I said in my BBC Reith Lectures, “Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don’t feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence

Ah, who will save me from existing? It's neither death nor life that I want.

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals.

I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men's faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should, therefore, allow only a small portion to descend to his relatives. Even if he has children, I consider it a mistake to hand over to them considerable sums of money beyond what is necessary for their education. To do so merely encourages laziness and impedes the healthy development of the individual's capacity to make an independent position for himself.

It's almost always easier to sell to an existing customer base than to find a new one.

You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.

I want to explore the existing manufacturing abilities of Indian companies and create products together.

With existing technology, we can enforce airport security without sacrificing our personal privacy.

It is always the sign of the second-rate man when the decision merely meets the present situation. It is the left-over in a decision which gives it its greatest value. It is the carry-over in the decision which helps develop the situation in the way we wish it to be developed. The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them; they have a vision of the future.

Ingeniously, capitalism discovered that the economy may be moved not by satisfying existing needs, but by creating new ones.

The sin of Adam did not make the condemnation of all men merely possible; it was the ground of their actual condemnation. So the righteousness of Christ did not make the salvation of men merely possible, it secured the actual salvation of those for whom He wrought.

The biggest reason people don't succeed is because they don't expose themselves to existing information.

I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.

You can use existing music in a film, but creating a soundtrack is very different. One note can be enough.

I believe that the existing power structures in Europe and Northeast Asia are not sustainable through 2020.

A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.

Now, normally I do all my research on existing recipes before I start working on my own version.

Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

I think trusting people is a problem for anyone with an existing audience who wants to do another thing.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.

The question is, can we make neural networks that are 1,000 times bigger? And how can we do that with existing computation?

It's hard to know when to respond to the seductiveness of the world and when to respond to its challenge. If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between the desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.