Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.
Alain de Botton

There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.
Dmitri Mendeleev

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Baruch Spinoza

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
Baruch Spinoza

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
E. M. Forster

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.
Max Planck

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.
Margaret J. Wheatley

I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.
Gerard Butler

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
Rahm Emanuel

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
Henry James

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.
Shinichi Suzuki

Art exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world.
Shinichi Suzuki

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
Paul Sweeney

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.
Marco Rubio

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Edward de Bono

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
Edward de Bono

Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
Rita Mae Brown

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
Vladimir Nabokov

The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.
Donald Knuth

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
Susan Sontag