Essentially Quotes

973 Essentially quotes by 803 unique authors

Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good is… — David Rakoff
The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code but a grace-laden… — Brennan Manning
I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Thanksgiving is inseparable from true prayer; it is almost essentially connected with it. One who always prays is ever giving praise, whether in ease or… — John Wesley
The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its… — Donald Miller
The search for scapegoats is essentially an abnegation of responsibility: it indicates an inability to assess honestly and intelligently the true nature of the problems… — Aung San Suu Kyi
Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives. — Paul Feyerabend
I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of. — Stephen King
Unfortunately, every time someone said “debriefing,” the entire flock had one image: someone’s tighty-whities disappearing in a flash. We were smothering our giggles, but it… — James Patterson
Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose. — Soren Kierkegaard
Thus our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation, but it is without passion.… — Soren Kierkegaard
Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another"… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet. — Jack Canfield
I cannot help feeling there is something essentially wrong about love. Friends may quarrel or drift apart, close relations too, but there is not this… — Vladimir Nabokov
But Magnus, he thought. You never told me. Never warned me it would be like this, that I would wake up one day and realize… — Cassandra Clare
I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered,… — Bertrand Russell
To be interested in something is to be involved in what is essentially a stressful relationship with that thing, to suffer anxiety on its behalf. — Geoff Dyer
That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about… — Truman Capote
All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand Constant Reader and… — Stephen King
If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture?… — Bill Hicks
In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and… — Gary Shteyngart
I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not… — Ursula K. Le Guin
(Djinn are essentially vapor.) "I blew him away. — Rachel Caine
Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations.… — Theodore Roosevelt
I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson

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