Nonexistent Quotes
64 quotes by 59 authors
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Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable;…
— Jim Jarmusch
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There is no 'thing' to let go of, but a concept, an idea of an ego that burdens us. As soon as we posit a…
— Sharon Salzberg
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To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.
— Mikhail Khodorkovsky
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Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.
— Nhat Hanh
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Preparation is not only about managing external risks, but about limiting the likelihood that you'll unwittingly add to them. When you're the author of your…
— Chris Hadfield
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The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
— Franz Kafka
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There's not democracy in the workplace. I mean, through most of our daily lives, the idea of democracy is fairly nonexistent. And I think things…
— Michael Moore
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In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general…
— Michael Moore
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Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out…
— Ron Perlman
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There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages.…
— Jeremy Sisto
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All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is…
— Edward Said
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Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.
— Martin Amis
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Only a few months into our marriage," writes the grandfather, "we started marking off areas in the apartment as 'Nothing Places,' in which one could…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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I think that nonexistent mythological creature just broke some of your toes," Jack said. Oh, shut up," said Charles
— James A. Owen
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Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as it really is,…
— Carl Sagan
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I dodged behind Mac for cover and refused to take the bait. I glanced at my nonexistent watch. 'Oops, look at the time. Guess I…
— Karen Chance
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There were drinks and food in full force, and some Moroi guy had a guitar out and was trying to impress girls with his musical…
— Richelle Mead
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When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental domain.…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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