Nonexistent Quotes - page 3

The resume was a work of art. It listed jobs she had never held at health clubs that never existed, promotions that had never happened, professional memberships in nonexistent organizations, awards she had never received, and a fake degree. Accompanying it were letters of recommendation she had written herself. (Lis Wiehl)
But the nonexistent apples will still fall toward the nonexistent ground at a meaningless rate of 9.8 m/s2. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Without a deadline, the motivation to do a task is small to nonexistent. View quote
Robert W. Bly
The concept of "human existence” suggests an abstract human condition; "class existence” indicts bad conditions. The former suggests a nonexistent egalitarianism, as if master and slave, owner and worker, bomber and bombed all participate in the same universal abstraction. ... The human condition for the rich is the inhuman one for the impoverished. View quote
Russell Jacoby
I am not saying that philosophies, since they are speculative, speak of the nonexistent. When they say 'subject' or 'class struggle' or 'dialectics', they always point to something that should have been defined and posited in some way. Philosophies can be judged, at most, on the grounds of the perspicacity with which they decide that something is worthy of becoming the starting point for a global explanatory hypothesis. Thus I do not think that the sign (or any other suitable object for a general semiotics) is a mere figment. View quote
Umberto Eco
The health care of farmworkers is almost nonexistent, and the rate of tuberculosis is 200 percent above the national average. View quote
Dolores Huerta
As atheists we have the opportunity to be more honest about the blues that we experience...We get to honestly look at the thing itself and not shift the issue to our relationship to some nonexistent god. View quote
Eric Maisel
The nature of "reality" is something about which I'm still confused, which leaves open the possibility that there isn't any such thing. But Egan's Law still applies: "It all adds up to normality." Apples didn't stop falling when Einstein disproved Newton's theory of gravity. Sure, when the dust settles, it could turn out that apples don't exist, Earth doesn't exist, reality doesn't exist. But the nonexistent apples will still fall toward the nonexistent ground at a meaningless rate of 9.8 m/s2. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky