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

Will Durant

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

Ward Churchill

Guess what? By virtue of being American, you are not innocent.

William Faulkner

Idleness breeds our better virtues.

Ronald Reagan

Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.

Witold Gombrowicz

Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.

William Graham Sumner

There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.

William Godwin

The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.

Washington Irving

Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.

Steve Jones

I love that rose. It has an intense fragrance -- an 'old rose' smell.

Natasha Poly

I like Dolce & Gabbana's fragrance Light Blue - it's my everyday perfume.

Rachel Zoe

I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.

Rita Ora

For me, a fragrance is another way of leaving an impression on somebody.

Source Unknown

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

Blake Lively

I first started wearing fragrance when I was thirteen or fourteen, and the smell was candy-like. They were in very colorful bottles, like turquoise and pink. By the time I was sixteen or seventeen, it got more girly and more floral.