Essentially Quotes

973 Essentially quotes by 803 unique authors

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of… — Greg Egan
It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the… — Hjalmar Schacht
The child of God should not be overanxious to make new gains; what he essentially requires is to keep what he already has, for not… — Watchman Nee
In Sherman's famous march through Georgia, his soldiers left a swath of death and destruction, destroying crops, burning homes and killing civilians. Sherman himself acknowledged… — John Pugsley
For this war is essentially a war of conquest. If ever a nation did wage such a war, the North is now engaged, with a… — Arthur Fremantle
But down deep, at the molecular heart of life we're essentially identical to trees. — Carl Sagan
Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that's the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely no, I make… — Simon McBurney
A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may… — David Mamet
The "magic if" is a tool invented by Stanislavski, the father of acting craft, is to help an actor make appropriate choices. Essentially, the "magic… — Bruce Miller
You have two kinds of shows on Broadway - revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your… — Stephen Sondheim
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human… — Mark Twain
Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is… — William James
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially… — Al Alvarez
We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing… — Andy Hertzfeld
Solitude is essentially the discovery and acceptance of our uniqueness. — Laurence Freeman
Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the… — Gene Tunney
Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises insoluble problems, and… — Denis de Rougemont
Launching a business is essentially an adventure in problem-solving. — Richard Branson
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. — Hermione Gingold

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