All Quotes

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.
‐‐ Mark Hopkins

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
‐‐ D. H. Lawrence

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
‐‐ Pierre Trudeau

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
‐‐ Orson Welles

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.
‐‐ Andrew Cuomo

The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and abroad.
‐‐ Stephen Cohen

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They want to be the same as everyone else, and they want to be different from everyone else. They want acceptance for both.
‐‐ E. L. Konigsburg

The essential property of insoluble bilayers is that they optimise their area at fixed surfactant number.
‐‐ Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it.
‐‐ Henry Mayhew

The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
‐‐ Ta-Nehisi Coates

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
‐‐ John Updike

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
‐‐ John Updike

The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.
‐‐ Robin Williams

The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.
‐‐ Arthur Erickson

The establishment can't change. It can't give people anything different; it can't make the turn.
‐‐ Jerry Della Femina

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
‐‐ George McGovern

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.
‐‐ Sandra Day O'Connor

The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.
‐‐ Peter Maxwell Davies

The establishment is a dirty, dangerous beast, and the BBC is a mouthpiece for that.
‐‐ Ken Stott

The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
‐‐ Bella Abzug

The establishment of a law, moreover, does not take place when the first thought of it takes form, or even when its significance is recognised, but only when it has been confirmed by the results of the experiment.
‐‐ Dmitri Mendeleev

The establishment of a National Methamphetamine Prevention Week will significantly increase awareness of meth and educate the public on effective ways to help prevent its use.
‐‐ Ron Lewis

The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world.
‐‐ Dan Kildee

The establishment of Israel was accompanied by much pain and suffering and a real trauma for the Palestinians.
‐‐ Reuven Rivlin

The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world.
‐‐ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
‐‐ Irvine Welsh

The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don't think alike. Most black people just vote alike.
‐‐ J. C. Watts

The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.
‐‐ Mike Fitzpatrick

The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.
‐‐ Franjo Tudjman

The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.
‐‐ Melvil Dewey

The eternal God - the infinite Jehovah - has done all he could do - even to the sacrificing his own Son - to provide a way for man's happiness, and yet they reject him, hate him, and laugh him to scorn!
‐‐ Elijah Parish Lovejoy

The eternal link between Lincoln's life and Passover - the fact that Lincoln's death, marked in the Hebrew calendar, coincides with Passover every year - is certainly fitting, and perhaps even part of the providence that Lincoln began to see in his own life and the life of his nation.
‐‐ Meir Soloveichik

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
‐‐ Norman Cousins

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.
‐‐ Max Weber

The ethic of liberal individualism has so deeply permeated the psyches of blacks... of all classes that we have little support for a political ethic of communalism that promotes the sharing of resources.
‐‐ Bell Hooks

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
‐‐ Felix Adler

The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.
‐‐ Felix Adler

The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.
‐‐ Roger Mudd

The ethics of journalism are one thing. Another thing is the ethics of business.
‐‐ Adam Michnik

The Ethiopian government's use of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa was, in practice, a hazardous regards transport of arms intended for the Ethiopian forces.
‐‐ Haile Selassie

The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the Ilokanos and the Cebuanos.
‐‐ F. Sionil Jose

The ethos of most films is that you make a film, you exploit the community, you exploit the environment, and it's OK because you made a great film, you know?
‐‐ Naomie Harris

The ethos on Wall Street has not changed, and that's not going to come from the corner office. That's going to come, for better or worse, from Washington, and the whole idea of greed is still good, that is still pervasive.
‐‐ Andrew Ross Sorkin

The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, advancing trade liberalization, and combating piracy and intellectual property violations.
‐‐ John Bruton

The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into in pursuit of a particular fact, or crack open for entertainment at virtually any page.
‐‐ Daniel Hannan

The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must not be weighed down by an insistence on a one size fits all approach which implies that all countries want the same level of integration. The fact is that they don't and we shouldn't assert that they do.
‐‐ David Cameron

The EU should have consolidated its different presences and purposes in Kosovo earlier.
‐‐ Emma Bonino