Essence Quotes

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Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being. It's… — Gina Berriault
Devotion is the essence of the path, and if we have in mind nothing but the guru and feel nothing but fervent devotion, whatever occurs… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
With the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, and the rudder beneath my feet, I can savor that essence from which… — Stephen Coonts
You can reach timelessness if you look for the essence of things and not the appearance. The appearance is transitory — the appearance is fashion,… — Massimo Vignelli
The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable. — Georges Rodenbach
The essence of the Redemption depends upon learning Kabbalah — Vilna Gaon
For the Spartans, it wasn’t walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta was a city… — Bettany Hughes
The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live. It is about the realities of what makes for an attractive,… — Albert Hadley
Justice is the essence of peace — Ali Abunimah
A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds… — John Drinkwater
Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see photographers… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
When you need to be loved, you take love wherever you can find it. When you are desperate to be loved, feel love, know love,… — Iyanla Vanzant
To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
Music at its essence is what gives us memories. — Stevie Wonder
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom. — Guy de Maupassant
Baptizing them in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: there are three… — Thomas Adams
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? — Igor Stravinsky
Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation — Paul Strand
With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't… — Walker Evans
Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled… — Boethius
To rest the case for equal treatment of national or racial minorities on the assumption that they do not differ from other men is implicitly… — Friedrich August von Hayek
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until… — Minor White
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in… — Ray Bradbury
It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is...If two laws conflict with each other, the courts… — John Marshall
This idea of imposing an order is very interesting to me. Photography is in essence an analytic medium. … In photography, you start with the… — Stephen Shore

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