What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of… — Saul Bass Copy Share Image
Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living… — V. Vale Copy Share Image
The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
When the mind is in a passive and receptive state, absolutely still and in silence, the Essence or Buddhata is liberated from… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Man you can define; but the true essence of any man, say, for instance, of Abraham Lincoln, remains the endlessly elusive and… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
If you think about it, in the most dramatic moments of its history Europe has always turned to philosophy and, in turn,… — Roberto Esposito Copy Share Image
All moments of joy include an element of happiness. But not all moments of happiness include joy. Happiness often comes from drive… — Laurel Mellin Copy Share Image
When I sing, I have a sense of peace, I feel like my brain turns off, and I become the core person… — Michelle Branch Copy Share Image
If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Underneath our ordinary lives, underneath all the talking we do, all the moving we do, all the thoughts in our minds, there's… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The essence of liberalism is negotiation, a cautious half measure, in the hope that the definitive dispute, the decisive bloody battle, can… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying. — John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn Copy Share Image
I always carry a good lipstick with me, like MAC in Ruby Woo. It has a matt finish, the essence of that… — Paloma Faith Copy Share Image
The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
“I believe that our relationship with food is a divine access point into the essence of who we truly are” — Christie Inge Copy Share Image
Conviction is not merely an opinion. It is something rooted so deeply in the conscience that to change a conviction would be… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Team Work is the essence of good governance. It is necessary to form a team within the party and also within the… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd… — Vanessa Paradis Copy Share Image
“Brightly burning passion is the releasing of your essence, your specialness and your gifts to the world.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
People and dogs and cows are born to be what they are. They may cover it up for a long time, but… — Julia Peterkin Copy Share Image
A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent,… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“...an intellectual instinct which extracts the essence from the phenomena of life, as a bee sucks honey from a flower. In addition… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially… — Constantin Brancusi 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
The essence of the conflict today, really, is cars versus people…We can have a city that is very friendly to cars, or… — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
Probably the most profound thing in the Bible is 'Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.' This is what,… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
I've realized that the world is, in essence, full of banana peels - loaded with things that may unwittingly trip an internal… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
I'm not Martin Luther King. I can't be Martin Luther King. The only thing I can do is present what I feel… — Anthony Mackie Copy Share Image
There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
The essence of wisdom is to see that there is always a solution once you realize that the mind, which seems to… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
