597 Existence Quotes for You to Enjoy

I began my career as an economics professor but became frustrated because the economic theories I taught in the classroom didn't have any meaning in the lives of poor people I saw all around me. I decided to turn away from the textbooks and discover the real-life economics of a poor person's existence. Muhammad Yunus

Me People Economics Saw All-Around Classroom Economic Became Because Around Discover Existence Textbooks Began Person Any Taught Decided Frustrated Poor Turn Meaning Poor People Theories Away Lives Professor Career

It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there was in the house for breakfast, 30 cents to spend on lunch and a hot dog for dinner. I did that for years. So there was definitely a hunger in me, of various kinds, to succeed. Neil Diamond

Me Dog Dinner Whatever Breakfast Lunch Spend Those Definitely Hunger Kinds Various Hot Hot Dog Days House Dry Real Years Existence Did Succeed Cents Cereal Early Early Days

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture awash with the imbecile obvious, our existence suffocating in safety. But mysteries remain. Nick Davies

Life Daily Culture Wonderful World Safety Mysteries Imbecile Our Once Defined Some Remain Merely Obvious Tracks Existence Banal Frightening Predictable Place Them Full Fascinating Now Daily Life Suffocating

The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines. Nikola Tesla

Struggle Water Will Power Every Rather Cheap Supply Long-Distance Development Ideal Along Household Material Lines Existence Than Being Burning Fuel Should Transmission Dispense Utilization Universal Necessity

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

God You Muslims Importance Existence Convince

Certain though I am - and ever more certain - that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Life Faith Time Me Walk Christ Universe Assurance Press Though Must Seeing Shadows More Feel Term Am Existence Same Same Time Anyone Much Certain Special Ever Believing Imagine

We all see that, today, man can destroy the foundation of his existence: his Earth. Pope Benedict XVI

Today Man Earth Destroy See His Existence Foundation

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?... It is necessary to accompany them with mercy. Pope Francis

Love God Me Gay Mercy Tell He Looks Does Condemn Accompany Existence Person Endorse Them Necessary Reject

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2. R. D. Laing

Rule Rules Non-Existence Exist Existence Discuss

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?' Robert Fulghum

Rattling Cage Existence Human Hollering Bars Keep

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence. Robert Mapplethorpe

Today Photography Madness Seemed Perfect Vehicle Like Because Existence Commenting

By enriching the carbon-dioxide content of the atmosphere from its impoverished pre-industrial levels, human beings have increased the productivity of the entire biosphere - so much so that roughly one out of every seven living things on the planet owes its existence to the marvelous improvement in nature that humans have effected. Robert Zubrin

Nature Owes Living Every Increased Enriching Seven Out Atmosphere Entire Marvelous Content Existence Impoverished Effected Improvement Human Human Beings Much Planet Productivity Beings Roughly Things Levels Humans

From my first published paper in 1946, my obsession has been to objectify inner experiences, to demystify the software of human existence. How? By relating changes in external behavior, systematically and lawfully, to changes in the brain. Timothy Leary

Behavior First Changes Relating Software Paper Systematically Has-Been Obsession How Been Brain Existence Human Experiences Human Existence Published Inner External

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. Wallace Stevens

Poet Philosopher Merely Proves Existence Exists

It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow. Walter Kaufmann

Suffering Assumed Assumptions Per Somehow Fact Simply Involves Existence Contrary Cannot Which Theism Much Therefore Necessarily Widely Two

The difference between a gas and a liquid is that in the former, the atoms and molecules move to and fro in an independent existence, whereas in the latter, they are always in touch with one another, though they are changing partners continually. William Henry Bragg

Atoms Changing Though Latter Independent Touch Between Partners Another Always Continually Existence Liquid Move Difference Whereas Former Molecules Gas

You cannot live a normal existence if you haven't taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence. Wole Soyinka

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women. bell hooks

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In 2005, I got an email from Belarus Free Theatre. They were emailing playwrights in America and England announcing their existence and saying they would like support from us. I wrote back and asked if they wanted us to visit. They said, 'Yes, we'd love that.' Tom Stoppard

There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results. Aldrich Ames

People Intelligence Result Organization Promotions Results Could Because Existence Get Espionage Justify Large Many Things

It often seems... the human race has twittered away its existence singing an endless song - a song of waste and hatred, where there should be progress and love. Óscar Arias

Love Song Progress Hatred Singing Seems Existence Endless Often Human Where Race Should Human Race Waste Away

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity. Abraham Kuyper

Relations Churches Must Like Existence Austerity Poor

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