Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
Big Rube was on my first album and some of my mixtapes. His words are so powerful. I want to speak every word he says into existence. I wanna be a part of that! I wanna be a part of greatness. His wordplay is great to me.
The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective.
Even if the Constitution of the United States had intended to recognize slavery, as a constitutional state institution, such intended recognition would have failed of effect, and been legally void, because slavery then had no constitutional existence to be recognized.
When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.
It’s such a lonely existence, living with a rock n’ roller. No matter how much he loves you, he will always love his music more.
Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body.
There are those who believe that the existence of gender differences at very early ages is evidence that these differences are biological or generic in origin.
I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.
For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God’s existence.
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel’s only morality.
Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter… the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.
For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
Usually, a band 20 years into its existence doesn’t put out its best records.
Hiphop hasn’t had stages of growth through its 30 years of existence.
But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.
I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.
Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence.
Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life.
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
Have friends. ‘Tis a second existence.
The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.
Too often we forget that an ideal partner is someone who enhances an already full existence.
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.
Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist ‘explanations’ for our mysterious human existence simply won’t do – on an intellectual level.
When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to attract attention by its strongly marked prominence is the remarkable loneliness of man. He stands alone.
That’s why I named my album ‘Finding Forever,’ because that’s what I was thinking about: What did I want to contribute to this world that would live beyond my physical existence?
Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.
I had a whole Scottish existence until we moved to London when I was four.
Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development; it is vital to our existence.
Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
We all see that, today, man can destroy the foundation of his existence: his Earth.
Our countries have been friends dating to the very existence of the United States. France is the only power that has never been at war with the United States.
The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel’s existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.
Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I’m the only person who can’t understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they’re not that great. These are questions everyone has.
Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmother was someone who, in a way, was rather defiantly trying to live a pre-World War I existence.
Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing – it’s what comes through.
I’m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.
I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?
The beauty of man’s being, fashioned as he is in the fairest of forms, demonstrates the existence of the Maker, while at the same time the fact that, together with his comprehensive abilities, lodged in that fairest of forms, he soon declines and dies, demonstrates the existence of the resurrection.
Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence.
A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory.
I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: ‘What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?’
I deny the very existence of that Almighty Supreme Being.
I felt the question of the afterlife was the black hole of the personal universe: something for which substantial proof of existence had been offered but which had not yet been explored in the proper way by scientists and philosophers.
A troll’s life is a no-physical-contact existence. You will die alone, as you die daily, online.
Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time.
If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.
Belfast has many advantages for the filmmakers, one of which is the existence of an airport right in the middle of the city.
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible.
The one kind of person I have a lot of trouble understanding is the kind of person that says the existence of God or religion doesn’t matter, it’s not an important decision. I think it’s vitally important; it’s what all our lives are based on.
