Essence Quotes

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.

Democracy can be sustained and developed only by people who understand its essence.

In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.

Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure.

I would not change very much about the American theater. I marvel and rejoice in the way the country's regional theaters have formed a network that has become, in essence, our National Theater.

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing.

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

[The essences of things] are suspended on the invisible dimension whose vibrance has been denied the human eye at all times save in the intuition of ecstasy.

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play.

Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason.

Humor is an escape, because you cannot think about your problems when you are trying to be funny; so, in essence, "being a humorist" gives you a valid excuse to hide from your pain.

If you reach deeply into yourself, you are reaching into the very essence of mankind.

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.

The essence of compassion is a desire to alleviate the suffering of others and to promote their well-being

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.

In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are ridiculously in charge, then you own whatever happens in a company, school, et cetera.

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

Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer.

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

Anyone can have a good day. The question is what do you do on a bad day. That's when you're being tested. In a very tangible sense, a bad day shows your innermost essence more than a good day.

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

You see more and more why healing is happening through music. It's because music causes a reorganization of the tonal structure, and Man in essence is a vibration

To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe... essence

In essence the whole thing of life is to just keep trying to do good things. Just do good things for people.

In essence, everything is energy and cannot be destroyed.

What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.

Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness.

The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.

In the process of deeply accepting our own inner experience, instead of being identified with a story of a limited self, we realize the compassion and wakefulness that is our essence.

Distilling truth from overwhelming amounts of information is the essence of leadership.

The essence of justice is mercy.

Those who seek liberation want to go beyond individualized perception. The essence of their being wants to dissolve back into the cosmos.

If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.

It is true there is a scent in the desert, though there may be no flower or tree or blade of grass within miles. It is the essence of the untrodden, untarnished earth herself!

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.

Thanks be to God, Who gives us sufferingas sacred remedy for all our sins,that best and purest essence which preparesthe strong in spirit for divine delights!

Conflict is the very essence of life.

If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg warns you dont follow my path to extinction

The essence of Christianity, as I see it, is love. The essence of Humanism (and I'm also a Humanist) is love. At that level, we're not far apart.

Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.

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.

The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.

I feel the presence of God when I feel the essence of divinity in anything and everything around me.

The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.

Grace is the essence of theology and gratitude is the essence of ethics.