Top 68 Best Existing Quotes
#1. I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.
Adolf Galland
#2. With all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing, or that ever did exist.
Thomas Jefferson
#3. even in death, his last breath was poetry
existing in the wind
and on the breeze of
"it used to be likes"
forever remembering,
yet never reliving
his life
will never be what it used to be like.
N'Zuri Za Austin
#4. The divine fact of existing shouldn't be surrendered to the satanic fact of coexisting.
Fernando Pessoa
#5. Despite claims by some to the contrary, we have heard numerous times in hearings and briefings by experts that existing technologies do not fully or effectively detect nuclear material.
John Linder
#6. I'm one of those pianists who tends to ignore every existing recording and lots of traditions about playing pieces when I start.
Jeremy Denk
#7. I was bullied from grade one to six. Even middle school was tough for me. Everyone had these pre-existing friendships, and I was the new kid, who was acting, so that didn't help much either. It was really tough.
Devon Bostick
#8. An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#9. Right now, God is inviting you to live for his glory by fulfilling the purposes he made you for. It's really the only way to live. Everything else is just existing.
Rick Warren
#10. Much theoretical work, of course, focuses on existing economic institutions. The theorist wants to explain or forecast the economic or social outcomes that these institutions generate.
Eric Maskin
#11. An aspect of the work has to do with altering the literal/cultural meaning of existing public images by making minimal changes and additions. Using superimposition, juxtaposition and other contextual changes, I am functioning as a visual guerrilla.
Robert Heinecken
#12. Of all existing things some are in our power, and others are not in our power.
Marcus Aurelius
#13. The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence.
John McCain
#14. I've been on the board of UCLA Film and TV School, and I went to UCLA. I realized that the same movie theater that was there when I went to school, 30 years later is the same movie theater in the same condition. There was an opportunity to refurbish an existing room, and I jumped at the opportunity.
Darren Star
#15. I'll disappear in the fog as a foreigner to all life, as a human island detached from the dream of the sea, as a uselessly existing ship that floats on the surface of everything.
Fernando Pessoa
#16. If you want to discover your true purpose for existing, all you have to do is look deeply into the things that bring you joy.
Toni Sorenson
#17. Over the next decade, cities and states across America will be compelled to tighten their belts as the really big bills - the pension bills they cannot afford - come due. They'll have to go after existing contracts with current workers.
John Podhoretz
#18. Ultimately, what any company does when it is successful is merely a lagging indicator of its existing culture.
Satya Nadella
#19. One of the best ways of reducing both CO2 emissions and poverty in the South would be to strengthen the existing, decentralised demographic pattern by keeping villages and small towns alive. This would allow communities to maintain social cohesion and a closer contact with the land.
Helena Norberg-Hodge
#20. Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#21. The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#22. Think that today is the best day of your life and, with love and kindness, change yourself to begin the first day of the rest of your existing life.
Debasish Mridha
#23. Following celebrities or people you don't regularly see in person often doesn't add to our happiness. The best use of social media is to deepen existing close relationships or create new ones.
Michelle Gielan
#24. Generosity is self-existing openness, complete openness. You are no longer subject to cultivating your own scheme or project. And the best way to open yourself up is to make friends with yourself and with others.
Chogyam Trungpa
#25. I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can.
Fred Tomaselli
#26. This was in truth not living; it was scarcely even existing, and they felt that it was too little for the price they paid. They were willing to work all the time; and when people did their best, ought they not to be able to keep alive?
Upton Sinclair
#27. There is no question that global warming will have a significant impact on already existing problems such as malaria, malnutrition, and water shortages. But this doesn't mean the best way to solve them is to cut carbon emissions.
Bjorn Lomborg
#28. I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.
Garry Winogrand
#29. We only have a Plan A. The acceptance and full implementation of the existing plan, the so-called Plan A, is the best solution for Greece, for the euro zone and also for creditors and holders.
Evangelos Venizelos
#30. Existing is not quite enough. Passionate living is the best revenge.
Arlaina Tibensky
#32. Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals.
Louis Agassiz
#33. I'm handed a bunch of existing data. My job is to put that in the best narrative form. That is a puzzle I love to solve.
Hilary Liftin
#34. Train leaders in behaviors that promote trust and respect. Bust existing silos and focus on what's best for the project.
Eunice Parisi-Carew
#35. Sometimes the best thing about us isn't what we're gifted with, but what we can make others feel just by our very nature of existing.
Sarah Noffke
#36. You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.
Norm Coleman
#37. Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
Yves Behar
#38. Oh, I wish so much to live again! Each minute, each instant of life should be blessedness for man ... they should, surely they should! It is man's own duty to arrange it so; it is his law
a hidden but surely existing one ...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#39. They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society.
Samuel P. Huntington
#40. Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.
Edward O. Wilson
#41. Managers are to information as alcoholics are to booze. They consume enormous amounts, constantly crave more, but have great difficulty in digesting their existing intake.
Robert Heller
#42. Now that the spectres of violence and spoliation had fled, the few hundred people who made up "the world" never tired of meeting each other, always the same ones, to exchange congratulations on still existing.
Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
#43. In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law which executes itself, which works without means, and which cannot be conceived as not existing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#44. In general, things that were endowed with life did not, like the Golden Temple, have the rigid quality of existing once and for all. Human beings were merely allotted one part of nature's various attributes and, by an effective method of substitution, they diffused that part and made it multiply.
Yukio Mishima
#45. Friendship never forgets that its only reason for existing is to love other people.
Paulo Coelho
#46. With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing.
Toshihiko Fukui
#47. He was the sun and I was just a speck of dust, existing on his horizon. Eventually I would burn up and the sun would continue to shine.
Yelena Lugin
#48. The first duty of a man is to love himself. When someone loves himself, he is loving the universe. This universe is existing because of you.
Debasish Mridha
#49. Pessimism negates the existing world. Yet its negating is ambiguous. It can simply will decay and nothingness, but it can also renounce what exists and thus open a path for a new formation of the world.
Martin Heidegger
#50. I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.
Czeslaw Milosz
#51. As much as people would like to disrupt the world by going their own way entirely, you cannot change an existing system without also becoming a little part of it in order to change it from the inside. Everybody can change something, but nobody can change everything.
Rick Falkvinge
#53. An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.
Albert Einstein
#54. In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.
Aaron Levie
#55. Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of things, the past and present somehow coalescing or co-existing.
W.G. Sebald
#56. She never seemed to be truly happy; she just seemed to be passing time while she waited for something else. She was tired of just existing; she wanted to live.
Cecelia Ahern
#57. To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it.
Wallace Stevens
#58. Rationalizing is not a tool for penetration of reality but a post-factum attempt to harmonize one's own wishes with existing reality.
Erich Fromm
#59. The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence.
Michael Medved
#60. Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
Gustave Courbet
#61. Is this love reality
Or a dream?
I cannot know,
When both reality and dreams
Exist without truly existing.
Ono No Komachi
#62. I do tend to apply myself to projects that make me uncomfortable because usually when that happens I try to find a way of existing in the project that is more creative.
Nicolas Cage
#63. Because you can make decisions for yourself even if they're wrong. Mistakes can be corrected. Life is too short to have everyone else tell you how to live. Make a few mistakes, and learn from them. At least they'll be real, and you'll be living, not just existing.
Carolyn Brown
#64. Metaphors: knowledge existing in several states simultaneously and without contradiction.
G. Willow Wilson
#65. All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.
Aristotle.
#66. I don't know
what I'm feeling. Existing like I'm on auto pilot.
I've put my Armour on now. Limiting everything getting
in but also not letting anything out.
Tina J. Richardson
#67. Commercialism and the mad desire to make money have blotted out everything else, and as a result we are not living, but merely existing.
Joseph Knowles
#68. If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.
John L. Lewis
