Essentials Quotes
2179 quotes by 1543 authors
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The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some…
— B.F. Skinner
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Always run after opportunities to create peace between people, to find ways to bridge differences, please. Because as long as one person continues to feel…
— Yehuda Berg
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I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not…
— Franz Kafka
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Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power. Like…
— Alexandre Dumas
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All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization…
— Thornton Wilder
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Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then rejection…
— Philip Zimbardo
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One down," Beckendorf said. "About five thousand to go." He tossed me a jar of thick green liquid—Greek fire, one of the most dangerous magical…
— Rick Riordan
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Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone…
— Stephen King
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The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential…
— Deb Caletti
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There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
— Albert Camus
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I lacked some essential skill for attracting people, for giving and receiving love easily. It meant too much to me. I seemed to be driving…
— Lisa Kleypas
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When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.
— Eve Ensler
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I don't know many rules to live by,' he'd said. 'But here's one. It's simple. Don't put anything unnecessary into yourself. No poisons or chemicals,…
— Laini Taylor
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While an equality of rights under a limited government is possible and an essential condition of individual freedom, a claim for equality of material position…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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Ù°"The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all, Life…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.
— Mark Twain
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If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes…
— Abraham Maslow
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I also believe that when people are going through difficult situations in life... it causes them to search a lot more. They search life and…
— Cecelia Ahern
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