Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kofi Annan

I think it was essential that he paid the money.

Sathya Baba

It is not enough, nor is it essential that you should repeat the name of Rama loudly; respect it in the fullness of love and admiration.

Vinessa Shaw

The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society.

Vincent Van Gogh

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

Winston Churchill

Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from wantà. The fourth is freedom from fear.

If we are to make progress, it is essential that our partners (the US) show much greater flexibility than they have up to now.

Bjarne Stroustrup

In the short term, say 10 years, many such standards will be industry standards rather than formal ISO or IEEE standards, but it is essential for the software industry's health that key interfaces be well-specified and publicly available.

Jim Crace

The Commonwealth Prize is about celebrating the Commonwealth and the special relationship we have with the ex-colonies - which is part guilt and part warmth - and the Booker Prize isn't an essential part of that, but it is part of that.

Henri Bergson

The essential function of the universe, which is a machine for making gods

John Burnside

The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues - compassion, wonder, humility, respect for the mysterious - are far from conventionally heroic.

Ameen Rihani

Not in our make-up, to be sure - not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet - do the essential traits in our character first reveal themselves. But truly in the little things the real self is exteriorised.

Support is essential to the realization of every successful outcome.

They are the records that are essential to understanding whether justice is being served.

Bill Owen

It's going to be an essential headquarters location for some of the worldwide operations as well as geographically for North America.

Lysander Spooner

A contract for the establishment of government, being nothing but a voluntary contract between individuals for their mutual benefit, differs, in nothing that is essential to its validity, from any other contract between man and man, or between nation and nation.

Sathya Baba

At the present moment, in the prevailing situation, what is most essential is the cultivation of love. Losing love mankind has lost its humanness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.

Juliet Stevenson

I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.

Otto Wallach

As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.

Georg Solti

From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.

To us, food is not an essential issue. There are more important issues, like loving your neighbor as yourself and loving God with all your heart.

It's ... essential that girls not be exploited and abused and exposed to AIDS, ... It's very important to fight back.

Julia Gillard

It seems that the Howard Government is getting ready to roll over on some important PBS protections that will leave Australians worse off and make their essential medicines even more costly.

They gave so much to Liverpool. The exhibition will tell the essential story of the port and the people who made it great.

For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.

It's about discovering the essential qualities. Otherwise, a destination is just a destination.

Sathya Baba

It is such broad-minded mothers who are needed today. Good mothers are more essential than good wives.

It's a phenomenon that people treat lightly, and it should not be treated lightly. It's something that's essential to human beings: listening to stories.

It's a really luscious fish. It's high in essential fatty acids, which are good for you. And Californians know that.

It opened a lot of people's eyes. That day, people here realized how essential information technology can be.

Anthony Romero

It's a historic ruling. While no one wants to see what's on the photos or videos, they will play an essential role in holding our government leaders accountable for the torture that's happened on their watch.

It was already dehydrated, hadn't been feeding and being out of the water would have, in effect, shriveled the animal's internal organs. It was essential to try to take the whale out to sea on the barge, but there was always the risk this would happen.