Essential Quotes

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.

Community care is a fundamental, an essential, an enduring part of our aged care system.

The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.

In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite.

I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace?

Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

The freedom of every artist is essential.

Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.

The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points.

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.

Health reform is an essential part of restoring America's economy and maintaining our competitiveness.

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

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.

The goal is justice, not executions. We all want to make sure the process is fair and that the right person is punished. These recommendations are essential to that goal.

It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.