#exists

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so. ↗

— George Saunders

#fiction #god #had #i #i think

Well the thing is that the New York of 1846 to 1862 was very different from downtown New York now. Really nothing from that period still exists in New York. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#downtown #exists #new #new york #nothing

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men. ↗

— Giorgos Seferis

#domain #exists #heart #large #men

Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#america #barrier #elevation #every #exists

Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#exist #exists #heart #peace #soul

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#any #defense #exists #idea #institution

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term. ↗

— Harry Stack Sullivan

#becomes #circumstances #exists #love #other

The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas. ↗

— David Bailey

#areas #barriers #breaking #class #down

Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#actively #advance #behind #body #christianity

If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong. ↗

— Leonard Bacon

#form #government #laws #nothing #order