When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence. – Atom Egoyan
The seminaries must be like the churches’ poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity. – Abraham Kuyper
The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable as any mathematical proposition, while the other asserts that his existence is not demonstrable to the intellect. – Annie Besant
Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders. – Daniel Barenboim
Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate. – Michael Mandelbaum
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation. – George Bernard Shaw
I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence. – Man Ray
Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia. – Daniel H. Hill
The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory. – Giacomo Casanova
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century. – C. Everett Koop
I think one’s sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can define your existence. – Mia Kirshner
In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence. – Natsuo Kirino
Israel claims it needs nuclear weapons as a deterrent against any threat to its existence. The Arab world in return feels that this is an imbalanced system; there is a sense of humiliation and impotence. – Mohamed ElBaradei
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn’t have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. – David Lodge
The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence. – Meir Kahane
It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development. – Noam Chomsky
Beethoven’s music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence. – Daniel Barenboim
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. – Friedrich Nietzsche