Essence Quotes

1898 Essence quotes by 1317 unique authors

When we try to describe one person to another …, what do we say? Not usually how or what that person ate, rarely what he… — Cleanth Brooks
Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent. — Larry Wall
Pornography is the undiluted essence of anti-female propaganda. — Susan Brownmiller
For me, the essence of a medicine man's life is to be humble, to have great patience, to be close to the Earth, to live… — Archie Fire Lame Deer
Salt, gathered from the tears of a thousand angels, restraining the essence of Sammael, the Hellhound. The Seed of Destruction. This I can promise, Sammael,… — Grigori Rasputin
In short, what the living wage is really about is not living standards, or even economics, but morality. Its advocates are basically opposed to the… — Paul Krugman
Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language. It speaks of the very essence of being human.... you are generous, you are hospitable,… — Desmond Tutu
The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic. We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.… — John Berger
The essence of our whole path is in that place of discomfort, and what do we do with it? — Pema Chodron
Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that is… — Eleanor Catton
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him. — H. L. Mencken
All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time. — Robert Penn Warren
Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless. — Vera Nazarian
In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s ‘I Have a Dream' speech is one citizen's soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial… — Aberjhani
Instead of thinking of this and that, one thing after the other, let your mind recognize itself in a single moment. When the mind recognizes… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Every tree, every plant, has a spirit. People may say that the plant has no mind. I tell them that the plant is alive &… — Pablo Amaringo
Everybody who cares for his art seeks the essence of his own technique. — Dziga Vertov
Honestly, the essence of publishing hasn't changed. Since the days of the cave man carving stuff on the cave walls, people have wanted stories, and… — Susan Wiggs
I didn't drink in the essence of the classroom. I didn't take legible notes or dance all night. I thought I would marry my boyfriend… — Lena Dunham
The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together. — Havelock Ellis
The previous regime ... reduced man to a means of production and nature to a tool of production. Thus it attacked both their very essence… — Vaclav Havel
One word defines the essence of surfing better for me than any other — stoke . One of the best things about stoke is that… — Shaun Tomson
The Imperial Household, as represented by the Emperor, has been praying for the welfare of the people while nurturing harmonious relationship with them. Based on… — Yoshiko Sakurai
All human beings are limbs of the same body. God created them from the same essence. If one part of the body suffers pain, then… — Saadi

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