Essence Quotes

The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.

If we need to be reminded to love one another, then we have already lost sight of the very essence of our existence.

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

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

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I've seen the profound impact he's had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

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

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

I'm interested in authentic experience and the essence of that creative place, and where those myths begin and where they become real on any level.

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

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

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

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.

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.

When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.

If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.

Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.

The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.

She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence of music. That's where you get the most out of it.