The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Christians ought to suspect that affliction is the very essence of creation. To be a created thing is not necessarily to be… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The sky is purple, the flare of a match behind a cupped hand is gold; the liquor is green, bright green, made… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
Baltimore's often called the most northern Southern town. It has a distinct essence. It's definitely post-industrial, definitely Rust Belt, very working-class. I… — David Simon Copy Share Image
What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I spend my life studying that book, and every book I've written has in some sense been a book about the Bible,… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Being blocked, being uncertain, sitting there not knowing, waiting, abiding with it: this is the work. If you don't have the tolerance… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
The essence of capitalism is expressed in two of its basic features: a) profit maximization and b) market competition. In their abstract… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Instead of thinking of this and that, one thing after the other, let your mind recognize itself in a single moment. When… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
If asked how to cope with a great host of the enemy in orderly array and on the point of marching to… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes.… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
It's nice to hear when someone gets something and the sincerity is enough to tickle you. They can have the wrong notes… — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
The student should bear in mind that the very essence of consciousness is constantly to identify itself with the Not-Self, and as… — Arthur E. Powell Copy Share Image
That which exists through itself is called The Eternal. The Eternal has neither name nor shape. It is the one essence, the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What you call the psychic being is the mind of the vital. The heart is the seat of this mind. And this… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
The context of the general teachings is one of talking to a sentient being who is experiencing uninterrupted bewilderment – one thought… — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Since I come from documentary background and my father is a documentary filmmaker, for me the core essence of cinema is it's… — Ivan Tverdovsky Copy Share Image
In onion is strength; and a garden without it lacks flavour. The onion, in its satin wrappings, is among the most beautiful… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
The Islamic State is able to raise finances through taxation, through theft of banks, and certainly through oil sales from the Omar… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm… — Martin Heidegger 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
Pornography works to a degree, high quality works, bad is obvious. Nobody goes for bad. The terrible middle ground is the mediocre.… — Henry Blodget Copy Share Image
During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I enjoy the challenge of taking something which was not meant for the piano, distilling its essence and writing or improvising it… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
Women-in-jeopardy movies are, in essence, the updated versions of men dying to save the princess from the dragon to earn her love.… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the… — Ricky Williams Copy Share Image
My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
[T]he essence of belief is doubt, the essence of reality is questioning. The essence of Time is Flow, not Fix. The essence… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. Whether as a general… — George Boole Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Other than the obvious, like Cher and Diana Ross, I actually find a lot of inspiration from time periods. So it's not… — Zendaya Copy Share Image
Bruce sees in this character - who fought all the way through "Superheavy" when his parents were missing, and now is determined… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
![“It's nice to hear when someone gets something and the sincerity is enough to tickle you. They can have the wrong notes but the essence of it is there, so it makes you laugh, because even when Frank [Zappa]'s music is sad, it makes me laugh.” quote by Gail Zappa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/470/gail-zappa-26739_enough_it-s-nice-to-hear-when-someone-gets-some_999286.jpg)
![“[T]he essence of belief is doubt, the essence of reality is questioning. The essence of Time is Flow, not Fix. The essence of faith is the knowledge that all flows and that everything must change. The growing man is Man Alive, and his "philosophy" must grow, must flow, with him. . . . the man too…” quote by Thomas Wolfe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/829/thomas-wolfe-4237_alive_t-he-essence-of-belief-is-doubt-the-esse_1970130.jpg)
