The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
To simplify things down to their real essence, whenever things go wrong in our lives, whenever our plans go awry and the… — Tony Clark Copy Share Image
The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Try to imagine a man setting out for the day without a single prejudice. ... Inevitably he would be in a state… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The Great Being saith: Human utterance is an essence which aspireth to exert its influence and needeth moderation. As to its influence,… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
For me, beauty and fashion are always connected. One doesn’t exist without the other. Make up is a key element of the… — Frida Giannini Copy Share Image
Cutting and pasting is the essence of what hip-hop culture is all about for me. It's about drawing from what's around you,… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
There do exist enquiring minds, which long for the truth of the heart, seek it, strive to solve the problems set by… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence… — Chris Robinson 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
The essence of the ludicrous consists in surprise,--in unexpected terms of feeling and explosions of thought,--often bringing dissimilar things together with a… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Your mind is your life. It's your essence and your substance. It's the part of you that has always been and will… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have… — Mikhail Kalinin Copy Share Image
The essence of government is concern for the widest possible public interest; the essence of the humanities, it seems to me, is… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I'm a woman, born the daughter of a feminist and the granddaughter of a feminist grandfather. I don't think I could have… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
If I do the same act that I did in 1995, in essence you're saying (in a robotic voice), 'My mind has… — Rodney Carrington Copy Share Image
It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
There are thousands ready to die for their religion, but only are few willing to live by its principles. Because of their… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Real laughter is spontaneous. Like water from the spring it bubbles forth a creation of mingled action and spontaneity - two magic… — Douglas Fairbanks Copy Share Image
The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence. — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
No general description of the mode of advance of human knowledge can be just which leaves out of account the social aspect… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The essence of our Faith consists simply in this freedom of the Ishta. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
