To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Love is the essence of everything beautiful,the force behind everything wonderful. — Gloria Lamsis Copy Share Image
What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things, — Constantin Brancusi Copy Share Image
The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do… — Heather Armstrong Copy Share Image
Be fresh and new when perceiving the other. Always look for the highest first, look for the intrinsic beauty and goodness, for… — John Friend Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world. — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
In essence, we're imaging the same cell for anywhere from forty to a hundred thousand times to create one of the movies… — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
When you have achieved a state of calmness and readiness, then you are ready to know, ready to understand in a deep… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Freedom is the essence of this faith. It has for its object simply to make men good and wise. Its institutions then… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I believe that the essence of government lies with unceasing concern for the welfare and dignity and decency and innate integrity of… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Most of our occupations are low comedy… We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Sometimes, if a song is written, in essence, to be that stripped down, it's very touchy when you start adding things, because… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I'm totally crazy, I know that. I don't say that to be a smartass, but I know that that's the very essence… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Jesus didn't wait until we got better to die for us. He died when we were in our most unlovely state. The… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
I am thinking, therefore I exist. (...) I was a substance whose whole essence or nature is solely to think, and which… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“Free speech is the antidote to tyranny, a powerful force that dismantles the walls of oppression and allows the sunlight of scrutiny… — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“I think as you get older you become more of who you always were. You become a more concentrated version of yourself.… — Stacey McGlynn Copy Share Image
“What a surprise it is to discover that you have never needed to strive to survive and be happy after all. Like… — Gina Lake Copy Share Image
[O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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