Essence Quotes

Every painting has a weakness and a breaking point, where the essence of a painting lies. In my case it is never in the centre.

And what's wrong with dimming the harsh reality of life a little, anyway? In essence, being alive is a bloody long and hard walk to death. Why not make it as pleasant along the way as you can?

Of course, Im older now. Im in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for Car Wheels or Essence or whatever. Different things were going on.

The essence of Keynesianism is its complete failure to conceive the role that saving and capital accumulation play in the improvement of economic conditions.

Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education.

Whether we know it or not, we are all in a quest after the Great Companion. All study, all art, all music, all literature, all government, all industry are in essence a search after the Infinite.

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.

To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.

My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.

It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking.

He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart.

The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to stick to it in the teeth of difficulties.

The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.

The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.

The essence of Hinduism is that the path may be different, but the goal is the same.

Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.

The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.

The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.

The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.

You're as good as anybody.

When is a cell finally too small to hold our essence?

But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.

Clouds of flavors and savors float around the thing-in-itself.

I think Nouveau Gloaming is a classic black metal record and I would hate to be a band that kept trying to recapture the same essence, but failing, for the rest of its days.

In essence, we are reconciled to reconcile.

Rejoicing is the essence of genuine worship. A sad face (apart from remorse for sin or regret concerning the pain of others) is an affront to a gracious and generous God.

I think the essence of [Kurt] Vonnegut's humanism lay in his emphasis on human kindness as, so to speak, our saving grace.

It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.

To say that we have to surrender to judicial supremacy is to do what Jefferson warned against, which is, in essence, surrender to judicial tyranny.

For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought.

The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.

The essence of nostalgia is an awareness that what has been will never be again.

The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium.

I like to preserve simplicity rahter than over-polishing. Fashions are changeable. Taste is in realizing the essence of a place.

Martin Williams persistently gets at essences, and that is why he has contributed so much to the very small body of authentic jazz criticism.

It's hard to judge yourself. Each Essence cover represents a different special moment in my life. One is about keeping it sexy in my 40s, so I'm not mad about that either.

One graphic element captured the essence of spring

The essence of love is concern.

I always carry a good lipstick with me, like MAC in Ruby Woo. It has a matt finish, the essence of that vintage glamour look.

Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.

Everything is fresh, the essence of realization.

What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.

Being resilient is the essence of my life.

It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.

Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

What appears to be a curse can be a blessing if we simply appreciate the inner essence of the possibility of how to connect to God in that situation.

The worst tragedy is that this uncontrolled mind steals our consciousness away from Krishna and that is the beginning, the essence of all suffering.

A great soul is called Saragrahi that means one who is always looking for the essence of every situation that comes before us.

The diverse religions and races bring beauty to the world if we truly understand in our hearts the essence of who we are and what we stand for. And that really is the essence of spirituality.

Speak the essence and live by it.