Essentials Quotes · Page 121

It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.

— Cyril Connolly

For a very small expence the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the…

— Adam Smith

Differentiating from parental introjects and psychological defences based on the emotional pain of childhood is essential not only for neurotic or seriously…

— Lisa Firestone

The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well ,…

— Tony Kushner

Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature...

— Stanton Peele

Strangely, although they may seem worlds apart, boxing and tennis have a certain kinship. Two individuals head-to-head, probing for weakness and attacking…

— Bud Collins

Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither…

— Michel Foucault

[Children should contribute] to a family's essential survival and happiness. [In] an urban society, children are ... robbed of the opportunity to…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of…

— Frank Herbert

The constant exercise of our faith by lofty thinking, prayer, devotion, and acts of righteousness is just as essential to spiritual health…

— O. Leslie Stone

If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find Him, and then proceed in the…

— Anonymous

Modern capitalism is just as subversive as Marxism. The materialistic view of life on which both systems are based is identical. As…

— Julius Evola

Humor is in fact an essential element in the mirth of creation. We can see how, in many matters in our lives,…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The Assembly passed a budget that makes the right choices for young students across the state by helping schools avoid cutting essential…

— Jose Peralta

The essential difference in service is not machines or 'things.' The essential difference is minds, hearts, spirits, and souls.

— Herb Kelleher

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

In anything really, it's finding the reality. You can't be 'real,' but you can create a reality. And that created reality is…

— John Hurt

A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.

— Luis Bunuel

I came to the conclusion that bringing Humans to earth with an intact ability to LOVE is essential if we are to…

— Robin Lim

Just as the sinner's despair of any hope from himself is the first prerequisite of a sound conversion, so the loss of…

— Arthur W. Pink

I was very fierce and very driven at eighteen. But my basic philosophy I think has stayed the same, I'm still an…

— Tobsha Learner

Community always calls us back to solitude, and solitude always calls us to community. Community and solitude, both, are essential elements of…

— Henri Nouwen

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates…

— Annie Besant

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are…

— Thomas A. Edison

Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their…

— Annie Lennox