They Exist Quotes

#1. Fictional characters exist in only two places, neither of which is on the printed page. They exist, first, in the mind of the writer and, second, in the mind of the reader.

Maren Elwood

#2. You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#3. There's fish in here that I've read about that are so see-through that they're invisible. So I don't even think they know they exist.

Karl Pilkington

#4. Simon Sinek, author of Start With Why, proposed the idea of The Golden Circle contending great organizations create their foundation by first addressing WHY they exist, then HOW they go about doing what they do, and then finally, WHAT they do.

Jeremiah Gardner

#5. Only human beings have come to a point where they no longer know why they exist.

Lame Deer

#6. No eleven-year-old has any real grasp of death. He doesn't have any real concept of other people
that they feel pain, even that they exist. And his own adult future isn't real to him, either. Makes it that much easier to throw away.

Lionel Shriver

#7. It is really hurting; how big media plagiarize everyday and no one judges them; The real heroes are those tiny and small self-funded websites and blogs that provide all primary data for them to survive and it will continue as far they exist

M.F. Moonzajer

#8. I sort of don't believe in trends. I know that they exist, but what is important at the end of the day is to remain independent

Christian Louboutin

#9. Dominance contests are rare, if they exist at all. During my 13 summers observing the Ellesmere Island pack, I saw none.

L. David Mech

#10. Within itself the soul sees all things more truly than as they exist in different things outside itself. And the more it goes out unto other things in order to know them, the more it enters into itself in order to know itself.

Nicholas Of Cusa

#11. In problem-posing education, people develop their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world with which and in which they find themselves; they come to see the world not as a static reality, but as a reality in process, in transformation.

Paulo Freire

#12. Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#13. Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action constitutes 'life'. I recognized that the equilibrium of any particular aspect of nature rests on the equivalence of its opposites.

Piet Mondrian

#14. The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.

Gloria Vanderbilt

#15. Your harem. They exist to serve you. They give you sons." She spat the word out. "What do you do for them?"
They are - It is different. It is like the man who carries my stool. I neither like nor dislike him. He is there to serve a purpose.

Kiersten White

#16. magazines don't exist to make you feel good about yourself. They exist to keep you insecure so you'll buy their magazines looking for answers.

Trent Shelton

#17. Love and hatred don't take turns; they exist side by side at the same time. And one's duty, one's obligation every day, is to choose to follow the nobler one.

Jamaica Kincaid

#18. There are tons of people who are late to trends by nature and adopt a trend after it's no longer in fashion. They exist in mutual funds. They exist in clothes. They exist in cars. They exist in lifestyles.

Jim Cramer

#19. Things are not as easily understood nor as expressible as people usually would like us to believe. Most happenings are beyond expression; they exist where a word has never intruded.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#20. Sisters are a trial," he said. "And it doesn't matter if they're Elder or humani. Sometimes I think they exist solely to upset and annoy their brothers.

Michael Scott

#21. Insurance companies as they exist today are going to be eliminated.

Neal Patterson

#22. Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.

Diane Setterfield

#23. Must a people disappear for us to know they exist?
Mano Dayak

Mano Dayak

#24. States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between states is also like peace between people. It involves the willing renunciation of purpose, in the mutual desire not to do, but to be.

Roger Scruton

#25. The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.

Anne Rice

#26. It is in providing outward display for things and pathways as they exist within the horizons of landscape that places enable memories to become inwardly inscribed and possessed: made one with the memorial self. The visibility without becomes part of the invisibility within.

Edward S. Casey

#27. I like stories that exist both in the naturalistic world and in our imaginative lives, films are so immersive in that sense, we can explore how our characters think and dream, as well as how they exist in the real world.

Dave McKean

#28. Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition.

Tom Wicker

#29. I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.

Harry S. Truman

#30. Perhaps there really are managers who can outperform the market consistently - logic would suggest that they exist. But they are remarkably well-hidden.

Paul Samuelson

#31. But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.

John Buchanan Robinson

#32. Different cities visit us daily, they exist in the clouds.

Antonia Perdu

#33. Sometimes there aren't words, Benny knew. Sometimes there are hurts so deep that they exist in a country that has no spoken language, a place where all landscapes are blighted and no sun ever shines. Benny had left his footprints in the dust of that place.

Jonathan Maberry

#34. I like when he tells me that he likes the way I feel because it goes against what I've heard my entire life and I wish I could put his words in my pocket just to touch them once in a while and remind myself that they exist.

Tahereh Mafi

#35. Children learn it. Boys, but more often, and more closely, girls. When girls learn it, they learn it for the rest of their lives, inventing two separate planes on which they exist--the life of the surface, presented for others, and the life forever lived on the inside, the one that owns you.

Kayla Rae Whitaker

#36. Hopefully when you see the movie, Maybe you don't have the Orlando in your life, but you know that guy. He goes to church. He's down the street. He's one of the boys at the schoolyard. They exist.

Shemar Moore

#37. The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.

V.S. Naipaul

#38. Life shouldn't be measured in hours for the vagueness in which they exist, but moments; moments are memorable and we could easily say that a short life filled with a stock of extraordinary memories is worth a thousand times what a long, boring and loveless one is.

Emiliano Campuzano

#39. As always, I thank God for words. I'm so glad I don't have to try to communicate this story to you with my antennae or something. Words are so delicious, and I'll be forever happy they exist.

Kiera Cass

#40. If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist.

Stephen Colbert

#41. Borders I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.

Thor Heyerdahl

#42. There were certain people who were out to get me. I know who those people were. They exist, believe me. They know that I know. They spent millions of dollars in order to try to get rid of me. I'm happy they lost most of their money.

Ehud Olmert

#43. I do this work for the common people and part of that work is creating a general awareness of such problems as they exist because my work is beyond class, religion and creed.

Abdul Sattar Edhi

#44. I don't usually think about things that are filthy, or unpleasant. I think about the good things, because I know they exist. And I want to believe in those good things.

Kamijo Yuuji

#45. We can't possibly fight all the terrorists in all the countries where they exist because we don't have the money or manpower to do so.

Michael Huffington

#46. If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.

Banksy

#47. You can make money, you can lose money in Africa. But opportunities, boy oh boy, they exist.

Euvin Naidoo

#48. You have created all things, and because of Your will they exist and were created. Revelation 4:11

Beth Moore

#49. Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read.

Patricia A. McKillip

#50. Don't you think it's weird when someone has photographs of themselves all over the place? It's like they're trying to prove they exist.

Candace Bushnell

#51. Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story - I don't think they exist.

Patricia Polacco

#52. Every woman is different. Basically they seem to be a combination of the best and the worst - both magic and terrible. I'm glad that they exist, however.

Charles Bukowski

#53. Sam, I really want to buy a red coffee pot, if they exist," Grace said.
"I'll find you one

Maggie Stiefvater

#54. What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

William Blake

#55. Suddenly I realized we must take care of things just because they exist.

Maura O'Halloran

#56. One's sentiments
call them that
one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or, worse still, when one betrays them does one realize their power.

Elizabeth Bowen

#57. I think U.N. organizations are important organizations. They exist for good reasons. And we also admit that there is room for us to improve the way we do business. The WHO will be a very positive and proactive partner in the overall U.N. reform, which is also important.

Margaret Chan

#58. Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.

Albert Schweitzer

#59. Self-destructive behaviors do not exist because there is a force within us that tries to hasten our return to an inorganic state; they exist because they provide short-term relief from pain that threatens to become intolerable.

David L. Conroy

#60. Goals do not get stored in your voice message or email bin. They are not going to reach out from the world wide web and remind you they exist. As a result, our goals do not get the respect they deserve.

Darren L Johnson

#61. As to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like.

Protagoras

#62. It is cheering to find a newspaper of the great influence and circulation of the Journal that tells the facts as they exist, and ignores the suggestions of various kinds that emanate from sources that cannot be described as patriotic or loyal to the flag.

Stephen Kinzer

#63. It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their own eyes and ears.

Douglas Adams

#64. Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

Richard M. Nixon

#65. Here, though, the police do not exist to protect and serve. They exist to maintain terror through unimaginable atrocity.

Edward Lee

#66. There are people.
There are stories.
The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth.
Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies.

Alan Moore

#67. Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

E. M. Forster

#68. The ignorant are like useless, brackish soil;They exist and that is all.

Thiruvalluvar

#69. I can be unkind to someone in the street or in the subway - I'm a bad-tempered person - but I'm unable to be unkind to a character. They exist because of me, and I have responsibility for them.

Claire Denis

#70. There will always be people afraid of the monsters in the night. They are usually the ones that look for them because they have proven they exist in themselves.

Shannon L. Alder

#71. There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

Terry Pratchett

#72. He had figured out that thoughts exist in silence and have no colour or sound or shape until they are turned into words. Spoken words exist in the mind first and then go to the voice and sit temporarily inside ears, and if words are conveyed through sign language, they exist in the motion of hands.

Rita Leganski

#73. Denying our weaknesses is neither power, nor protection. We cannot overcome those disabling parts of our own nature which in fact steal our power away, if we do not acknowledge they exist.

Sonia Choquette

#74. Authors are supernatural beings. They exist in the world, also in worlds they create, and in the worlds of other authors they read.

Lani Brown

#75. It's evident to anyone paying attention that zero tolerance equals 100 percent stupidity. But you have to understand that zero-tolerance rules aren't about protecting kids. They exist to protect the adults who are too cowardly to make judgments.

Jonathan V. Last

#76. Even if not a single picture is never published, they exist. And that means that we are recording the history of the human race. If that's all your doing, it still a very very worth while profession to be involved in.

Philip Jones Griffiths

#77. When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist.

Noah Cicero

#78. I think synergies are a lot like UFOs: Lots of people claim to have seen them, but few can actually prove they exist.

Bethany McLean

#79. The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#80. As in the wild there were predators and prey, so, too, did they exist among men in towns and cities. The hardworking peasants were the grazers, and the thieves were the starving coyotes.

Kel Kade

#81. The gods, if they exist, are just the people who happen to live on the other side.

Brendan Myers

#82. Are they really gods?"
"I never worry about theological questions," said Nightingale. "They exist, they have power and they can breach the Queen's peace - that makes them a police matter.

Ben Aaronovitch

#83. A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.

Edward Abbey

#84. Diabolical forces are formidable. These forces are eternal, and they exist today. The fairy tale is true. The devil exists. God exists. And for us, as people, our very destiny hinges upon which one we elect to follow.

Ed Warren

#85. I don't have a gun. But I think they level the playing field. I accept that there's really nothing you can do about it. It's like nuclear weapons; if they exist then eventually other people are going to have them. Maybe just take away people's motivation to use them.

Doug Stanhope

#86. They think virtues are man-made, only exist because they exist, but if no human had ever existed, The Virtues would persist for they hold their being from the very Presence of the Adversary Himself.

Geoffrey Wood

#87. People really do not change....they exist...

Will Leamon

#88. On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#89. Guys are dumb. They're stupid and the only reason they exist is because their semen keeps the planet populated.

Amy Kinzer

#90. Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.

Jean-Luc Godard

#91. Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same.

Idries Shah

#92. There's a reason why the NRA's not here. They're just down the street. And since this is the main reason they exist, you'd think that they'd be prepared to have a debate with a president.

Barack Obama

#93. In order to show your best skills and talents-you must share them, or no one will ever know they exist- Lorenzo Victory

Lorenzo Victory

#94. Something I say a lot when it comes to anti-feminist stereotypes is that they exist for a reason.

Jessica Valenti

#95. Misfortune is not fair, fate is not just, but they exist just the same.

John Steinbeck

#96. Not everyone has to fly high to prove they exist; some of us are perfectly happy flying low and enjoying the view.

Mike A. Lancaster

#97. About the gods I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist or what they are to look at. Many things prevent my knowing. Among others, the fact that they are never seen.

Protagoras

#98. No one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it.

Milan Kundera

#99. I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.

Chuck Palahniuk

#100. The thing about past love is that they exist, only in your fantasy as a fantasy.

Hafsa Shah