Essentials Quotes · Page 54

I’m not saying we had a playroom, but I’m not shocked by [the sex in the book]. It’s essential to tell the…

— Jamie Dornan

The essence of government is concern for the widest possible public interest; the essence of the humanities, it seems to me, is…

— John Updike

Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative…

— Maria Popova

I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends…

— Bill Brandt

In order to abide in the love of God it is essential for anger and 'hate' to attain their maximum intensity but…

— Silouan the Athonite

Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. This happiness is the simplest and least costly kind, and it cannot…

— Robert J. Havighurst

Fear is essential for courage.

— John F. Murray

The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the…

— Rollo May

There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating…

— Minor White

My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

— Gary Snyder

Secular humanism does not have the essential attributes of a religion: belief in a deity, the wish for some sort of afterlife,…

— Paul Kurtz

Contraction of theological influence has at once been the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

With me, meditation is the only essential religion. And everything that follows it is virtue, because it comes of its own accord.…

— Rajneesh

In mission, also on a continental level, it is very important to reaffirm the family, which remains the essential cell of society…

— Pope Francis

We are living in the time of self-creation and you can become your own star and this is the essential set that…

— Zac Posen

Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here.

— Irina Bokova

If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will…

— Aristotle

Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use…

— Kenneth Burke

So whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

— Gloria Steinem

I think I always keep coming back to certain pieces, the idea of essential, elegant, easy wardrobe.

— Garance Dore

Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand…

— David Levithan

They could fall in love with fresh, new people, or they could have the courage and humility to tear off some essential…

— Liane Moriarty