Essentially Quotes

973 Essentially quotes by 803 unique authors

There is an old saying that all roads lead to Rome. It seems the administration so often clearly believes that no matter what the evidence… — Ron Wyden
The gospel of the Savior is not simply about avoiding bad in our lives; it also is essentially about doing and becoming good. And the… — David A. Bednar
Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they're essentially the victims of a marketing and capitalist… — Douglas Rushkoff
There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this… — Woody Allen
What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an… — Douglas Rushkoff
I’d spent my whole life waiting to awake on an ordinary morning in the town that was destined to be my home, in the arms… — Michael Chabon
Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There… — Virginia Woolf
When you were six you thought mistress meant to put your shoes on the wrong feet. Now you are older and know it can mean… — Lorrie Moore
...I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself. I want a… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she would carry for… — Marilyn French
Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which… — Gene Wolfe
Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with… — Timothy Keller
The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of those guys who… — James Jones
The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to… — Terry Pratchett
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to… — D. H. Lawrence
What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous, not in the… — Gustave Flaubert
I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself in your own… — Orhan Pamuk
Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest… — Aristotle
All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially… — Octavia Butler
It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every… — Jane Austen
I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it. — Barbara Pym
I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially… — Norman Mailer
Each of us is here to discover our true selves; that essentially we are spiritual beings who have taken manifestation in physical form; that we're… — Deepak Chopra
If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage. — Cynthia Ozick
In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of shame... She felt, now, she had… — D. H. Lawrence

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