All Quotes

The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.
‐‐ Franz von Papen

The essence of conversation is not which media format we choose to talk to each other with, so we don't differentiate between snaps and chats. It's just someone wanting to talk to you.
‐‐ Evan Spiegel

The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.
‐‐ Anna Garlin Spencer

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.
‐‐ John Piper

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.
‐‐ Knute Rockne

The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.
‐‐ Paul Farmer

The essence of good business is knowing when to step on a train and when to step off.
‐‐ Richard Rainwater

The essence of good government is trust.
‐‐ Kathleen Sebelius

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
‐‐ Benjamin Tucker

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
‐‐ James Madison

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
‐‐ James Anthony Froude

The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.
‐‐ Radhanath Swami

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
‐‐ Jane Addams

The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.
‐‐ David Mamet

The essence of justice is mercy.
‐‐ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
‐‐ Denis Waitley

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
‐‐ Guy de Maupassant

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
‐‐ John Ruskin

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
‐‐ Jose Ortega y Gasset

The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.
‐‐ Georg Cantor

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
‐‐ Georges Bataille

The essence of my character is an inability to get used to things. This, in fact, is the one thing I have grown accustomed to: an inability to get used to things.
‐‐ Geoff Dyer

The essence of my work, and of me, is the softer side of a strong woman, and that goes into a number of different roles.
‐‐ Dee Wallace

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
‐‐ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world.
‐‐ Maurice Saatchi

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
‐‐ Epictetus

The essence of play is that the sequence of actions is fluid and scattered.
‐‐ Robin Marantz Henig

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
‐‐ Germaine Greer

The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.
‐‐ Friedrich Schleiermacher

The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.
‐‐ Annie Besant

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
‐‐ Henry A. Kissinger

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
‐‐ Anita Brookner

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
‐‐ Hubert H. Humphrey

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
‐‐ Michael Porter

The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.
‐‐ Michael Porter

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
‐‐ Felix Mendelssohn

The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.
‐‐ Dennis Prager

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
‐‐ Elia Kazan

The essence of the Way is detachment.
‐‐ Bodhidharma

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
‐‐ David Storey

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
‐‐ George Orwell

The essential and living elements in our architectural activities stem from what was implanted in us during Old Saturn evolution.
‐‐ Rudolf Steiner

The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.
‐‐ Johannes P. Muller

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
‐‐ Nadia Boulanger

The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
‐‐ Bruce Barton

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.
‐‐ Bruce Henderson