Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. Scott Peck

The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

Luther Burbank

Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education.

Norman Mailer

The essence of spirit ... was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical.

Geno Auriemma

The big guys hurt us. And Essence Carson hurt us. They got contributions from the big guys and Essence Carson. And for us it was hard to find people to contribute.

Not that one shouldn't use all of those technical advantage, but the essence of what's being communicated shouldn't be technology.

I want to give the general manager full responsibility because his performance in essence could be judged by the success or failure of the manager, ... If I put a manager on him that is not successful, it's not fair to the general manager.

Mike Huckabee

To say that we have to surrender to judicial supremacy is to do what Jefferson warned against, which is, in essence, surrender to judicial tyranny.

Mike Nichols

The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good work, and the difference between safe and bold can only be defined by yourself since no one else knows for what you are hoping when you embark on anything.

Mike Myers

Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.

Karl Marx

The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.

Karl Marx

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

Karl Marx

Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena

Martha Beck

Here is the crux of the matter, the distilled essence, the only thing you need to remember: When considering whether to say yes or no, you must choose the response that feels like freedom. Period.

Oswald Chambers

We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.

The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.

Jurgen Habermas

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

Moliere

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

Millicent Fenwick

The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.

Milton Friedman

The collapse of communism in essence added tens and tens of millions of people to the world labor supply, and the people who were added had previously been getting very low income, but they were not unskilled. Many of them were fairly well educated.

Kathy Bates

I want to be defined by my own essence.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Conflict is the very essence of life.

Martin Heidegger

Form displays the relation [to beings] itself as the state of original comportment toward beings, the festive state in which the being itself in its essence is celebrated and thus for the first time placed in the open.

Mary MacLane

But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.

Neal A. Maxwell

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.

Leopold Stokowski

The highest reaches of music come thrillingly close to the central core and essence of life itself.

Larry Wall

Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.

Relation is the essence of everything that exists.

Pope Benedict XVI

By itself, the question of the liturgy's essence and the standards of the reform has brought us back to the question of music and its position in the liturgy. And as a matter of fact one cannot speak about worship at all without also speaking of the music of worship.

Piet Mondrian

The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.

Minor White

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.

Pearl S. Buck

Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?

Terry Goodkind

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.