Quintessence Quotes
45 quotes by 42 authors
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
— Hannah Arendt
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We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity.
— Mike Newlin
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The solutions put forth by imperialism are the quintessence of simplicity...When they speak of the problems of population and birth, they are in no way…
— Fidel Castro
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The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.
— Thomas Love Peacock
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The sum and substance of my teaching is this: Don't be dishonest to your vital breath; worship that only, abide in that only, accept it…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished…
— Edward Weston
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The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him, the object, or the moment, feeling the cause,…
— Edward Weston
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You may train for a long time, but if you merely move your hands and feet and jump up and down like a puppet, learning…
— Gichin Funakoshi
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Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering…
— Victor Hugo
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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died,…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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To the Jews, Rome constituted the quintessence of all that was odious and should be swept away from off the face of the earth. They…
— Joseph Kastein
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Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to a group of…
— Paul Burch
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The Universe story is the quintessence of reality. We perceive the story. We put it in our language, the birds put it in theirs, and…
— Thomas Berry
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John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father.
— Murray Rothbard
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It is, I believe, the primary charm of poetry to give the lesson of mirage, that is, to show the fragile and vibrant movement of…
— J.M.G. Le Clézio
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Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces and monstrous globular…
— Gerald Durrell
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Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations,…
— John Donne
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I think some people would understand the quintessence of sanctifying grace if they could be black about twenty-four hours.
— Amanda Smith
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The Most Secret Quintessence of Life is an original work filled with rich, new research, relying on important primary literature which has not, until now,…
— Anne Fausto-Sterling
Who Wrote These Quintessence Quotes
42 authors contributed a total of 45 Quintessence Quotes, led by these top contributors: