Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Repplier

the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Wherever the Word comes without power its essential content is missed.

David Ricardo

Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.

David Duchovny

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.

Arnold Bennett

A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

Charles Kennedy

I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

Brennan Manning

There is an essential connection between experiencing God, loving God, and trusting God. You will trust God only as much as you love him. And you will love him to the extent you have touched him, rather that he has touched you.

Edmund Burke

Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

For me, temperance is essential to good work.

Eli Roth

Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.

Albert Einstein

Playfullness is the essential feature of productive thought.

Albert Einstein

Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur.

Alexander Hamilton

To attach full confidence to an institution of this nature, it appears to be an essential ingredient in its structure, that it shall be under private and not a public direction-under the guidance of individual interest, not of public policy; which, would be . . . liable to being too much influenced by public necessity.

Adolf Hitler

The National Socialist state refuses to admit female labour in factories merely because such labour is cheap. There is, of course, a certain amount of industrial work which can only be performed by women, but an essential condition is that this sort of work should not be injurious to health.

We're kind of traveling gypsy musicians. We stopped paying rent in 1998. We love touring and we love being on the road, and to do what we're doing it would be impractical to have a home anywhere. So, we had a big garage sale, sold everything but the essentials and that allows us to do about 200 shows a year in 45 states and Ireland.

Adam McKay

I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

Ada Lovelace

One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.

Ludwig von Mises

The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism.

Andy Stanley

Courage is essential to leadership.

Angela Davis

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Only what is essential must be said.

Tom Wolfe

Everyone is taught the essentials of writing for at least 13 years, maybe more if they go to college. Nobody is taught music or tap dancing that way.

Dan Quayle

Most women do not want to be liberated from their essential natures as women.

Dallas Willard

In a world apart from God, the power of denial is absolutely essential if life is to proceed. The will or spirit cannot-psychologically cannot-sustain itself for any length of time in the face of what it clearly acknowledges to be the case. Therefore it must deny and evade and delude itself.

Mikhail Bakunin

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

Paul Auster

The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.

Nadine Gordimer

when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.

R. D. Laing

Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as is our separateness, but any particular person is not a necessary part of our being.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.

Harold B. Lee

The recurrence of fundamentals is essential to perpetuity.

Gary Bauer

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

Gao Xingjian

What is essential is whether it is perceived and not whether it exists. To exist and yet not to be perceived is the same as not exist.

George III

It is essential to our interest and the security of our colonies that the several nations or tribes of Indians... who live under our protection, should not be molested or disturbed.