The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Competition is pretty much the essence of everything, it gives humans drive. — Ashton Eaton Copy Share Image
“The essence of love lies not in communion, but in the fact that each partner forces the other to become something, something… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and… — Corazon Aquino Copy Share Image
If one asserts that buying customers below what they charge them is a corporate strategy, this is in essence an arbitrage game,… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
Practice patience; it is the essence of praise. Have patience, for that is true worship. No other worship is worth as much.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish upon our ability to know, but as the essence of knowing. — James Gleick Copy Share Image
After the Israelites safely crossed the Red Sea, the Egyptians chased after them and were drowned. God's angels wanted to celebrate the… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
First and foremost it is essential to understand the essence, the overall idea of any fashionable variation, and only then include it… — Lev Polugaevsky Copy Share Image
The goal has its importance. But the doing is what is truly fulfilling. Every enthusiastic person has a goal that may be… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I think that the most important requirement is to capture the essence of a piece of art. You look at it, essentially… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Copy Share Image
Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of our modern… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
By itself, the question of the liturgy's essence and the standards of the reform has brought us back to the question of… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is...If two laws conflict with each… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
“It's entirely conceivable that life's splendor surrounds us all, and always in its complete fullness, accessible but veiled, beneath the surface, invisible,… — Gustav Kafka Copy Share Image
The welfare state destroys the market mechanisms - lessens free choice and willing exchange. Simultaneously creating unnatural specializations, it must, granted statism's… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
It is the long term investor who will in practice come in for the most criticism. For it is the essence of… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
For AERO, I wanted to revisit in 5.1 some existing tracks in order to give them that space I had imagined when… — Jean Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
Strip away all the assumptions about what competition is supposed to do, all the claims in its behalf that we accept and… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
There is a fear of peace that I don't understand. Witness the old epithet "peaceniks," the association of peace with weakness. We… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
To me, the essence of keeping the soul nourished is obedience to one's conscience. I don't think that the soul can be… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of… — Wavy Gravy Copy Share Image
To me songwriting is more like redemption. I can extract the poison or the pollen, the essence from a situation and the… — Beth Orton Copy Share Image
David Cristofanos debut novel captures the essence of the human spirit, and delivers a story that is simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking. — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
Right here where you and I stand, we shall behold a true and radiant world. In that world, we shall dance only… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen. — Georges Limbour Copy Share Image
Non-violence is the essence of the entire Buddha's teaching, and the practice of non-violence is the entire essence of the practice of… — Lobsang Tenzin Copy Share Image
We are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. Everybody is my peer group. Your… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When we look at thing, we must examine its essence and treat its appearance merely as an usher at the threshold, we… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
There's this great panel - I forget what the actual comic is - of Spider-Man in the rain holding an umbrella and… — Jon Watts Copy Share Image
