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

Samuel Richardson

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

L. Ron Hubbard

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation

Maria Mitchell

Nothing comes out more clearly in astronomical observations than the immense activity of the universe.

Henri Poincare

In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer.

David Dinkins

But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.

Charles Lamb

Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.

Benjamin Disraeli

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

Barry Goldwater

Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: "One can disagree without being disagreeable."

Claude Bernard

In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.

Malcolm Forbes

In business, there’s such a thing as an invaluable person, but no such thing as an indispensable one.

Edwin Louis Cole

Professionals who are prayerful and productive are indispensable!

Jane Jacobs

Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.