Essentially Quotes

973 Essentially quotes by 803 unique authors

Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old manâ€™s face, or an… — Duane Michals
I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they… — Margaret Wise Brown
It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back one's… — Friedrich August von Hayek
The existence of other people is essentially awkward. — Lionel Shriver
the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute — Amartya Sen
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 â€œdebriefing,â€ the entire flock had one image: someoneâ€™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

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