#existed

The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#ages #been #boards #confidant #enough

I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration. ↗

— Margaret Anderson

#because #curb #defied #existed #i

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#chooses #dear #duty #earth #easy

It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#berlin #berlin wall #communist #countries #different

Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed. ↗

— Henry Reed

#dreams #existed #formed #freud #identifiable

In my last I contended that none of those ties which are necessary to bind a people together and make them one, existed between the colonists and Mexicans. ↗

— William H. Wharton

#bind #colonists #existed #i #last

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#existed #knew #know #learn #never

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible. ↗

— Rita Dove

#before #evidence #existed #front #imagine

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#i #mind #never #prison #world

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#consciences #contrary #existed #external #intolerable