Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place. — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
“You see, wild ones like us don't stay too often but our essence never really leaves.” — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that… — Harry Allen Overstreet Copy Share Image
Theories have been outgrown. The means is disappearing, the reality of the sensation alone remains. It is that in its essence which… — Arthur Dove Copy Share Image
Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned. — Margaret Ayer Barnes Copy Share Image
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
A life truly lived constantly burns away veils of illusion, burns away what is no longer relevant, gradually reveals our essence, until,… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs,… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
And there were times when one yielded quite shamelessly to the sentimental. They were more likely to be times of crickets, I… — Harrison Gray Otis Dwight Copy Share Image
What is it that we in the theatre give? Instead of images on canvas or in the form of statuary or music,… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
I think the essence of the argument has always been, first of all, the Guild doesn't want writing on spec. And that's… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Serving people we don't see eye to eye with is the essence of Christianity. Jesus died for a world with which he… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
When I joined 'Essence,' I was a young, single mother. I was 24. I hadn't gone to college. I wasn't making any… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
“I have always thought that art is not a category, not a realm covering innumerable concepts and derivative phenomena, but that, on… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
The soul sins therefore because, while aiming at good, it makes mistakes about the good, because it is not primary essence. And… — Sallust Copy Share Image
"The myths," says Horace in his Ars Poetica, "have been invented by wise men to strengthen the laws and teach moral truths."… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
The attempt to be an ideal parent, that is, to behave correctly toward the child, to raise her correctly, not to give… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
If you think about it, we love others not for who they are, but for how they make us feel. In order… — Irwin Federman Copy Share Image
Once there is a certain degree of Presence, of still and alert attention in human beings' perceptions, they can sense the divine… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Branding is something designers think about a lot. You take something like a perfume or car tire, or butt-flavored bubblegum, and you… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
Love is the essence of the universe,. Love in action is service. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Motherhood is more than bearing children...It is the essence of who we are as women. — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
The essence of nostalgia is an awareness that what has been will never be again. — Milton S. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Wars exist because the divine essence of each human being are not recognzed.” — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom. — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism. — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
