Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vivian Stringer

I thought Essence had a lot more points. She seemed more active.

William Feather

Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.

Richard Hofstadter

The intellectual ... may live for ideas, as I have said, but something must prevent him from living for one idea, from becoming obsessive or grotesque. Although there have been zealots whom we may still regard as intellectuals, zealotry is a defect of the breed and not of the essence.

Russell Baker

The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.

William Shenstone

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

Samuel P. Huntington

The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes Western culture. The essence of Western civilization is the Magna Carta, not the Magna Mac. The fact that non-Westerners may bite into the latter has no implications for their accepting the former.

Rebecca Miller

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

Richard Rorty

We are equal inhabitants of a paradise of individuals in which everybody has the right to be understood.

Robert Delaunay

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable

William James

A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result.

Tupac Shakur

There ain't no place like paradise.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Paradise is for those who make paradise.

Saint Augustine

If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell.

Marcel Proust

The only possible paradises are those we have lost

Marcel Proust

The only paradise is paradise lost.

Joni Mitchell

They paved paradise and put up a parkin lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got till it's gone

Khalil Gibran

The longing for paradise is paradise itself.

Jacque Fresco

We could either develop paradise on Earth or oblivion; wipe ourselves out, only the future will tell. It's what you do to make the future.

Bobby Holik

Jacques Lemaire said when a team fails, no individual is successful, ... When a team is successful, all the individuals are successful.

Brad James

I think it makes it more disappointing that we lost. We had the most individual champs and usually that means you win. We just have to regroup and get ready for state.

Gordon Taylor

The whole object of the players' association is to try and make sure that any individual is able to capitalise on his ability, particularly in football, which is a very short career.

Stephanie Coontz

The only thing that can replace (the emptiness) is a new sense of community. It's more than the sum of the individual losses.

Eric Herzik

Here in Nevada, the political process is largely conducted through individual power brokers.

Renee James

Having it all means different things to different people. I think it's an individual choice. Nothing is perfect. Everyone makes sacrifices. For me, it's worked out well. I have children. I have a very interesting career. But it's not for everybody.

James Blake

I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.

Jade Jagger

I think it's totally up to the individual if they'd like a private life or if they'd like to be in the public eye - it's a choice you can make.

Michel Lu

It is not to be used for personal reasons or by individual personalities.