You may say you won’t interfere with another person’s soul, but you do—merely by existing. The snag about it is the practical difficulty, so to speak, of not existing.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Related I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers. J. K. ROWLING Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU If you want to do that via satellite or via existing cables, it is very expensive. The existing low ... GEORGES KREBS Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health. UNKNOWN Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is... NEIL GAIMAN You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model tha... RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model tha... RICHARD BUCKMINSTER 'BUCKY' FULLER Logically, you do regroup after something like this and you~ don't go forward with the existing sche... ANTHONY CORDESMAN Be a light unto the world, and hurt it not. Seek to build not destroy. Bring My people home. <... NEALE DONALD WALSCH Awareness creates another world - an already existing world where you were not aware of its existenc... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new mode... R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you... SARAH MCLACHLAN The desired shape of your dreams is different from the supposed shape of another person’s dream. W... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Never interfere in a person’s decisions about what he will do with his possessions. VIKRANT PARSAI You may choose to believe or not, but the fact is that immortal means immortal. Can you imagine that... RICK RIORDAN It is crucial for us to help existing companies in the county grow and expand. It is important to br... JENNIFER DUNN If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it . . . NAPOLEON HILL It’s an already inside outside, The philosophers say it’s the soul But it’s not the ... ALBERTO CAEIRO You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage. NORM COLEMAN Living is more than just existing. When you are living you feel emotions that you may not be able to... PERKY PEPPERMINT Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY It's one thing to buy existing buildings with existing showroom space, ... It's another to go throug... LOREN HILL Thank you for existing. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Thank you for existing. AULIQ ICE But just because you bury something, that doesn’t mean it stops existing. JENNY HAN The existing, dated facilities provided by the Ross Theatre do not meet the demands of the events it... RICKY HENDERSON It is outlined in the agreements that you are able to locate here, but if your equipment interferes ... KRIS MCKIM No matter what anybody says about you, it doesn’t hold any significance to who you truly are unles... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness a... ANONYMOUS This is the difficulty about talking about it without sounding big-headed, but you cannot speak of N... DAVID LANGE Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'W... SAINT JEROME If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge NAPOLEON HILL If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge'' NAPOLEON HILL Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. JOHN WOODEN I like Joey Barton. But, you know, I don't want to interfere with that publicly. He has been negotia... ARSENE WENGER The existing system could tell you that it was going to send five cartons with 50 items, but it coul... BRUCE MANTZ The moment you resist change, you resist existing past your current state of awareness. NIKKI ROWE Ultimately, what any company does when it is successful is merely a lagging indicator of its existin... SATYA NADELLA You’re wrong about one thing: fairy-tales do exist. Millions of existing parents read existing fai... JONATHAN DUNNE We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fr... GORE VIDAL When you stop existing and you start truly living, each moment of the day comes alive with the wonde... STEVE MARABOLI Come a day there won’t be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, ... JOSS WHEDON If you want to be a legend, God help you, it's so easy. You just do one thing. You can be the ma... MIKE NICHOLS The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall d... MARK TWAIN The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one... DEYTH BANGER The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the neces... ALBERT EINSTEIN I read somewhere that the first thing you learn when traveling is that you don't exist--I didn't wan... CATHERINE LACEY What do the vitarags [the enlightened one] say? This world will keep on running, You do not interfer... DADA BHAGWAN The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and ye... ARTHUR HAYS SULZBERGER If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge. NAPOLEON HILL In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model.... R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Your marital life is about to cease existing if you entertain the boredom guest & it is difficult ne... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) You can’t be another person’s honesty, child, but you can be your own. JEANETTE WINTERSON What Microsoft has to do, arguably, is find way to recreate itself. And unfortunately this process o... DAVID GARRITY Then you can really speed up traffic, by taking the existing rights of way and making them more effi... JACOB SNOW It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon y... MARCUS AURELIUS You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do somet... W. CLEMENT STONE You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say
that you had to do somet... W. CLEMENT STONE I won’t let you have it. I won’t give you this moment. I won’t let you fill up this valuable o... COCO J. GINGER Forever, shall you, follow the path of your heart, and always, may you, speak what it wants to say. TYLER J. HEBERT You have got to educate people, and you need to enforce existing laws, so that people do not intrude... CLIFF BLACK You have got to educate people, and you need to enforce existing laws, so that people do not intrude... CLIFF BLACK People do not recognize that you can do it when you merely tell them you can. Until they see you doi... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it. ALESSANDRO NIVOLA All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how ... WAYNE DYER Do not talk about negative stuff anymore than you absolutely have to. Don’t give it energy! Find t... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA At some point you say it doesn't make sense to spend that kind of money to attract new clients and y... HENRY BERGHOEF Though not everything is so easy in doing, ponder before you say something is far difficult to do! W... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You do not become a dissident just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. Y... VACLAV HAVEL question the status quo; rebuke the existing rules, though it may be at the discomfort of the masses... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell ho... WALTER BAGEHOT Sex is a practical event & until you become a practitioner,you will not be able to practice it with ... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is only in your mind that you have to excel, at anything or everything. Of course, it would be ve... , THE ART & SCIENCE OF RATIONAL EATING, 1992 The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK It's important to know how to operate within the system you are existing in. DASHA ZHUKOVA That’s when you realize the most of it—life, the relentless mechanism of existing—isn’t abou... LAUREN OLIVER You can say, like, planet Earth has an existing geology, and what we do as human beings and as archi... BJARKE INGELS You have to dream before your
dreams became reality of existing life. GIBSON MPOLWENI When anyone advocates a new technology, people [with existing spectrum] are against it. It's the pos... JEFF ROSS It's so hard to think about designing our dream home when all l wanna do is lay you out like a bluep... CURTIS TYRONE JONES What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't mer... C.S. LEWIS Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't m... C. S. LEWIS Once we have done that accreditation, it is a case of maintaining it. You are having to check that a... COLIN BELL Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are... THOMAS KEMPIS You may not be able to move the mountain with one hit, but you can do so by picking up the rocks bit... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive... HARUKI MURAKAMI Hard work is never a punishment. If you see it so, you may not do it with the right attitude. ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires. MANTON Firstly, there is no such person as Death. Second, Death's this tall guy with a bone face, like a sk... NEIL GAIMAN The existing system has many good features but it could be fairer. The existing system is least fair... BILL RAMMELL If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it. VAN MORRISON If you think you can do it, you can. JOHN BURROUGHS It ain't bragging if you can do it. DIZZY DEAN Gym is a sacred place which makes your life feel worth existing by putting effort of care into the h... MUNIA KHAN If you can dream it, you can do it. ENZO FERRARI
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SAYERS Few things are more striking than the change which has taken place during my own lifetime in the att... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrs... DOROTHY L. SAYERS THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE Setting aside the scandal caused by His Messianic claims... DOROTHY L. SAYERS "The Kingdom of Heaven", said the Lord Christ, "is among you." But what, precisely, is the Kingdom o... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Feast of Thomas the Apostle Those who make it a reproach to Christianity that it taught no new mo... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Continuing a short series on sin: Evil is the soul's choice of the not-God. The corollary is that ... DOROTHY L. SAYERS A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. DOROTHY L. SAYERS Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away. DOROTHY L. 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SAYERS For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and wha... DOROTHY L. SAYERS None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people ... DOROTHY L. SAYERS I love you - I am at rest with you- I have come home. DOROTHY L. SAYERS Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same for... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Work is not primarily a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is or it should be... DOROTHY L. SAYERS The two men sat silent for a little, and then Lord Peter said: "D'you like your job?" DOROTHY L. SAYERS Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave ... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Harriet had long ago discovered that one could not like people any the better, merely because they w... DOROTHY L. SAYERS I always said the professional advocate was the most amoral person on the face of the earth. I'm cer... DOROTHY L. SAYERS [On marriage and permanent attachment:] Well, well -- the prizes all go to the women who ... DOROTHY L. SAYERS It's very good of you--" "No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I d... DOROTHY L. SAYERS I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally. DOROTHY L. SAYERS [T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that th... DOROTHY L. SAYERS We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting t... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with... DOROTHY L. SAYERS How should anything be sacred to an advertiser?" demanded Ingleby, helping himself to four lumps of ... DOROTHY L. SAYERS People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the... DOROTHY L. SAYERS There, eastward, within a stone’s throw, stood the twin towers of All Souls, fantastic, unreal as ... DOROTHY L. SAYERS The mellow bells, soaring and singing in tower and steeple, told of time's flight through an eternit... DOROTHY L. SAYERS The people who are most discouraged and made despondent by the barbarity and stupidity of human beha... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, ho... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, c... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of c... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper DOROTHY L. SAYERS Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be. DOROTHY L. SAYERS Parker looked distressed. He had confidence in Wimsey's judgment, and, in spite of his own interior ... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Experience has taught me," said Peter (...) "that no situation finds Bunter unprepared. That he shou... DOROTHY L. SAYERS The making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly ... DOROTHY L. SAYERS That was the second time within five minutes that he had warned her off his private ground. His mood... DOROTHY L. SAYERS The boat rocked perilously as they heaved and tore at the clinging weeds, razor-sharp and strong as ... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Peter—do please be happy. I mean, you’ve always been the comfortable sort of person that nothing... DOROTHY L. SAYERS I say--I've thought of a good plot for a detective story." "Really?" "Top--hole. 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GALE SAYERS He says he won't sign anything because he knows what they're doing with the stuff, and I don't disag... GALE SAYERS Tomorrow, you might see a passing shower around the midday. MATT SAYERS I'm 62 years old. You can't tell me that some little kid coming up to me -- he doesn't know me. Thes... GALE SAYERS Both Ray and I are racing fans. Also, we both have the same goals and desire to succeed, to win and ... GALE SAYERS There's no way I would have made the Hall of Fame or set any of the records I did by myself. No matt... GALE SAYERS It's all about possibilities. Now that we're re-connected, it also gives us an incentive to build co... JUDITH SAYERS There is a great deal of potential, but there are also a few challenges for any potential operator. ... JUDITH SAYERS There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but th... JUDITH SAYERS The next five years will be very exciting. We have a lot of vibrant people in the neighborhood wanti... JENNIFER SAYERS There's been a fabulous resurgence of people fixing up homes. The house values are steadily increasi... JENNIFER SAYERS Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old an... DOROTHY THOMPSON I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is t... DOROTHY DIX Think for yourselves for a change. You've been pedlars: go and be merchants. You've been mercenaries... DOROTHY DUNNETT My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish! DOROTHY KILGALLEN That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it... DOROTHY PARKER You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy. DOROTHY DIX You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think. DOROTHY PARKER It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that mak... DOROTHY DIX Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring. DOROTHY PARKER The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down! DOROTHY DAY I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it. DOROTHY PARKER Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basi... DOROTHY RIERA The friends I made have slipped and strayed. And who's the one that cares A trifling lot and... DOROTHY PARKER Work is the province of cattle. DOROTHY PARKER I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to th... DOROTHY HAMILL I used to have terrible tantrums. I was temperamental when I was younger. Actually, what I needed wa... DOROTHY HAMILL Once when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And ... DOROTHY PARKER Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts a... DOROTHY PARKER If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it'... DOROTHY PARKER This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force. DOROTHY PARKER Oh, it is sure as it is sad That any lad is every lad, And what's a girl, to dare implore DOROTHY PARKER I never see the prettiest thing - A cherry bough gone white with Spring - But what I think, Ho... DOROTHY PARKER Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to con... DOROTHY THOMPSON The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out ... DOROTHY PARKER The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhap... DOROTHY NEVILL Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live DOROTHY THOMPSON Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of... DOROTHY ALLISON The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out o... DOROTHY PARKER If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up. DOROTHY GAMBRELL If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. DOROTHY PARKER Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone. DOROTHY PARKER By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, ... DOROTHY PARKER Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies. DOROTHY ALLISON Oh seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday DOROTHY PARKER If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I... DOROTHY PARKER