Essentially Quotes

973 Essentially quotes by 803 unique authors

In strongly opposing the world of play to that of reality, and in stressing that play is essentially a side activity, the interference is drawn… — Roger Caillois
Entrepreneurship is essentially identifying the path that everyone takes; and choosing a different, better way. — Sheldon Adelson
Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity. — Josef Pieper
All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with an… — Jay Griffiths
Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how to share the spoils. — Iain McGilchrist
Instead, the Nationals will pay Scherzer $15 million per season, but do so for 14 years; essentially, they’ve deferred half of each season’s salary seven… — Max Scherzer
The opportunities and threats existing in any situation always exceed the resources needed to exploit the opportunities or avoid the threats. Thus, strategy is essentially… — William Cohen
Photography is essentially a personal matter - a search for inner truth. — Inge Morath
Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to… — Eric Holder
I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it! — Randy Newman
But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question back on the… — Derrick Jensen
We do all the things we can to essentially brainwash people into liking it before it actually comes out. — Unknown Author
Even though I only just found out that I was adopted, God has always known, and he has always loved me. And since that has… — Christine Caine
Science fiction is essentially a kind of fiction in which people learn more about how to live in the real world, visiting imaginary worlds unlike… — Brian Stableford
Since hearing beauty in something is essentially a positive response and hearing ugliness is negative, might it ultimately be more difficult for an open-minded listener… — Frank J. Oteri
From the standpoint of education, genius means essentially 'giving birth to the joy in learning.' I'd like to suggest that this is the central task… — Thomas Armstrong
People are essentially red meat. They are. — Max Cannon
The quotes are often poignant or funny (one man before the firing squad requests a bulletproof vest) and often don't register as much more than… — Jonathan Messinger
There's nothing essentially romantic about things like roses or jewelry. Romance starts as some blank concept, and then you just fill it in with objects… — Andrea Seigel
Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write… — Leo Ornstein
Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party. — Noam Chomsky
It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car, and… — Robert Harris
We read because we are essentially alone. — Jessica Zafra
Essentially, all life depends upon the soil ... There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together. — Charles Kellogg
You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there's no free lunch. Writing is work.… — Margaret Atwood

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