Quintessence Quotes

45 quotes by 42 authors

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity. — Mike Newlin
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
The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams. — Thomas Love Peacock
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ClÃ©zio
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
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
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
I think some people would understand the quintessence of sanctifying grace if they could be black about twenty-four hours. — Amanda Smith
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

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