Entity Quotes

424 quotes by 366 authors

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the… — Anthony Burgess
How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or… — Ian Mcewan
Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically,… — Willard Van Orman Quine
Walks are never as good during the day. At night, when everyone's apartments are lit up and you can see inside, that's where the action… — Susane Colasanti
Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a physical, tangible, sensate… — Susanna Kaysen
if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But… — Jodi Picoult
Since time itself is not movement, it must somehow have to do with movement.Time is initially encountered in those entities which are changeable, change is… — Martin Heidegger
India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into everyone's life, meddling with it,… — Thrity Umrigar
I should emphasize this, to keep well-meaning but misguided multiculturalists at bay: the theoretical entities in which these tribal people frankly believe â€” the gods… — Daniel Dennett
Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems… — John Dewey
Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down,… — Ray Bradbury
Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is… — Jose Saramago
The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and… — H P Lovecraft
Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they… — Cormac McCarthy
It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred… — Laurie R. King
You view the gods as entities without," Montolio tried to explain. "You see them as physical beings trying to control our actions for their own… — R A Salvatore
Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as… — Sylvia Plath
Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to… — Gilles Deleuze
I warn you," the boy went on. "I am a magician of great power. I control many terrifying entities. This being you see before you"… — Jonathan Stroud
The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries; that even in environments inhospitable to… — Jodi Picoult

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