Essentially Quotes

973 Essentially quotes by 803 unique authors

I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic. — Gough Whitlam
My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of… — J. C. R. Licklider
Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its… — Franz Kafka
Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite… — Ibn Khaldun
I’ve always essentially been a New Yorker, — Lawrence Block
Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness. — William Henry Harrison
It meant something to me – the idea of a coat guarding and hiding a woman’s body. For me, a woman who is absorbed in… — Yohji Yamamoto
Access to high quality video content -- essentially TV programming -- has never been better than today — Lloyd Braun
It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the novel with perhaps… — Allan Massie
Android has been managed essentially to make it a profitless prosperity. Right now, if Google is not careful, Android will be Samsung or Samsung will… — Roger McNamee
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed. — Tom DeMarco
Life is too long to be good at C++ – if you had spent all that time to become good at it, you would essentially… — Erik Naggum
The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks of the period… — David Berlinski
The other thing I like, in fact, several months ago I introduced a bill to end the absurd catch and release policy where our government… — John Doolittle
New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or… — Robert Asprin
Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be… — August Strindberg
Auto da Fay reveals the trickles of a creative sensibility that later became a tide, but essentially, Weldon the writer emerges only at the very… — Joanna Murray-Smith
No offence to Nicki Minaj, but her career has essentially been a Lil’ Kim tribute — Azealia Banks
I love Groot so much I get teary eyed when I think of him sometimes. Essentially, all the Guardians start out the movie as bastards… — James Gunn
Roddenberry had his own utopian vision about he perfectibility of man, and I never really believed that. And I don’t think the show demonstrates that.… — Nicholas Meyer
First, the probable cause of AIDS has been found: a variant of a known human cancer virus. Second, not only has the agent been identified,… — Margaret Heckler
In other words, the problem of empire-building is essentially mystical. It must somehow foster the impression that a man is great in the degree that… — Felix Morley
There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems… — Cornelia Otis Skinner
Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths. — Josephine Hart

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