#existence

It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid. ↗

— Susan Hampshire

#disability #disappoint #existence #just #know

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology. ↗

— David Hilbert

#anything #ask #astrology #bring #discover

It's not really like you have a thing like a supermodel anymore. It's more of a word than a real existence. I think, also, looking at it from a designer's point of view, at one point maybe they felt the stars took too much attention away from the clothes. ↗

— Carmen Kass

#anymore #attention #away #clothes #designer

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle. ↗

— Harvey Keitel

#deal #existence #gained #great #great deal

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

#been #carnegie #century #existence #foundation

We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#come #deeper #distance #even #exhilaration

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. ↗

— John Berger

#beautiful #believe #course #crystal #deeply

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#birth #born #caught #deals #even

There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#any #continental #could #existence #male

Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends messages that 'real Americans' believe in God. ↗

— Michael Newdow

#being #believe #citizens #class citizens #continuously