The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. Votes: 4
David StoreyThe Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence. Votes: 3
H. P. BlavatskyYou're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself. Votes: 2
Mel BrooksThe essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish. Votes: 2
Michael PorterEvery act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. Votes: 2
Albert CamusThe essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom. Votes: 2
Guy de MaupassantThe very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. Votes: 2
Carl RogersSelf-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition. Votes: 0
Franklin D. RooseveltAnything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural. Votes: 0
Ted DekkerLove is, in its essence, a free, formless strand of luminosity. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellScience knows the qualities of electricity, but not its real essence. Votes: 0
Mahmoud Mohammed Tahagrowth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy. Votes: 0
Abigail McCarthyThe essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. Votes: 0
John Fisher, 1st Baron FisherKnowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience. Votes: 0
Elbert HubbardThe essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism. Votes: 0
H. L. MenckenThe essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonPoetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars. Votes: 0
Delia ShermanThe essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence. Votes: 0
Friedrich SchleiermacherDirect observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable Votes: 0
Robert DelaunayIt is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations. Votes: 0
Maurice Merleau-PontyDirect observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable. Votes: 0
Robert DelaunayDistilling truth from overwhelming amounts of information is the essence of leadership. Votes: 0
Carly FiorinaThe essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence. Votes: 0
John RosemondSurprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth. Votes: 0
Bill WattersonThe essence of love is to give continually, without expecting anything in return. Votes: 0
Ryuho OkawaThe essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul. Votes: 0
Joseph JoubertWomen need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves. Votes: 0
Anne Morrow LindberghSome third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy. Votes: 0
Alexandra KollontaiPursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle. Votes: 0
Camille PagliaI think that fear of embarrassment is the essence of the human challenge. Votes: 0
Frances Moore LappéCan such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love? Votes: 0
Pearl S. BuckSuccessful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft. Votes: 0
Paul SingerHistory causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem. Votes: 0
Vladimir LeninThe essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonDemocracy can be sustained and developed only by people who understand its essence. Votes: 0
Abdurrahman WahidThe Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government. Votes: 0
Frederick DouglassWherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion. Votes: 0
John WesleyYour preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens. Votes: 0
ZhuangziThose who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheOur names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. Votes: 0
Logan Pearsall SmithThe essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live. Votes: 0
Albert HadleyThe essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns. Votes: 0
Lawrence S. KubieCould there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love? Votes: 0
Jane AustenPractice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation. Votes: 0
Ann VoskampYou are a cosmic traveler; your body is temporary, but its essence is eternal... Votes: 0
Dave ZebianThe essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience. Votes: 0
Gary GygaxIf you're not electing Christians then in essence you are going to legislate sin. Votes: 0
Katherine HarrisThe essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities. Votes: 0
Hans-Georg GadamerThe essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiHinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality. Votes: 0
H. G. WellsThe supreme bliss that pulsates in the wake of meditation is your pure essence. Votes: 0
Swami MuktanandaAt it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation. Votes: 0
Julia CameronIt is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent. Votes: 0
Orson Scott CardThe great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauThe essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas. Votes: 0
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence. Votes: 0
Thomas CarlyleBY the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaInner child work is essential. It's the essence of growth as a whole person Votes: 0
Cheryl RichardsonOriginality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. Votes: 0
Nnamdi AzikiweIt is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words. Votes: 0
Chris RoseThe essence of evangelism is to passionately show people how you can make history together. Votes: 0
Guy KawasakiIt goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiAt its core, meditation is about touching the spiritual essence that exists within us all. Votes: 0
Aaron HoopesThe good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul. Votes: 0
Leonardo da VinciWhat is beautiful? Whatever is perceived joyfully is beautiful. Bliss is the essence of beauty. Votes: 0
Sri Nisargadatta MaharajWhat a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned. Votes: 0
Barry HannahThe essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns. Votes: 0
Benjamin GrahamHypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging. Votes: 0
Alexander TherouxThe essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things. Votes: 0
Franz von PapenSymmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns. Votes: 0
Victor HugoBecause we all carry the Truth within us as our essence, we recognize it immediately. Votes: 0
Eckhart TolleIf you reach deeply into yourself, you are reaching into the very essence of mankind. Votes: 0
Joseph Jaworskito achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life. Votes: 0
Jan StrutherGreek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeMaking choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret. Votes: 0
Mireille GuilianoSociety has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Votes: 0
Ludwig von MisesThe true essence of fashion is being able to reinvent yourself with what you have. Votes: 0
Melanie FionaSimple honesty is so remarkable a quality. It is of the very essence of Integrity. Votes: 0
Gordon B. HinckleyThe essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom. Votes: 0
Karl MarxAll the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly. Votes: 0
Thomas AquinasA loving heart, a heart full of love, is the precious essence of human life. Votes: 0
Maharishi Mahesh YogiIn fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect. Votes: 0
Douglas HofstadterIn essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters. Votes: 0
John FowlesYour surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same. Votes: 0
Jenna DewanFragrance is so intimate for a lot of women - it's your essence, your identity. Votes: 0
Christian LouboutinWhen your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference. Votes: 0
Michael Bassey JohnsonThe essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit. Votes: 0
Andrew SullivanThe essence of Christian obedience is not do's and don'ts but personal allegiance to Jesus. Votes: 0
Timothy KellerThe essence of nostalgia is an awareness that what has been will never be again. Votes: 0
Milton S. EisenhowerAncient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend. Votes: 0
LaoziAll I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time. Votes: 0
Robert Penn WarrenIt is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain Votes: 0
Robert KennedyThe essence of knowledge is to know what obedience and worship are -Abu Hamid al Votes: 0
Al-GhazaliInitiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure. Votes: 0
Dennis RaineyGita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaLove is God's essence; Power but his attribute: therefore is his love greater than his power. Votes: 0
Richard B. GarnettThe essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence. Votes: 0
Isamu NoguchiWhat sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude. Votes: 0
Marcel MarceauThe essence of leadership is the capacity to build and develop the self-esteem of the workers. Votes: 0
Irwin FedermanBooks are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle. Votes: 0
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaThe ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Votes: 0
Stephen CoveyThe essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow. Votes: 0
Hans ArpThe very essence of martial arts is the thirst for knowledge and the truth about ourselves. Votes: 0
Frank ShamrockThe solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. Votes: 0
Aiden Wilson TozerWho can ever hold the essence of fire?Who can ever know the alchemy of desire? Votes: 0
Tarun J. TejpalThe poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. Votes: 0
Virginia WoolfLove can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason. Votes: 0
Han SuyinWomen do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. Votes: 0
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelYou can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park. Votes: 0
Andy RoddickTalk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse! Votes: 0
Harriet Beecher StoweMotherhood is more than bearing children...It is the essence of who we are as women. Votes: 0
Sheri L. DewWe can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning. Votes: 0
Albert EllisJimmy Dickens was the essence of country music and the heart of the Grand Ole Opry. Votes: 0
Connie Smithdo not rid the world of darkness.. for it is what preaches the essence of light Votes: 0
Devjeet ChawdharyYou can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park Votes: 0
Andy RoddickWhen in doubt, act boldly, as if it were impossible to fail. In essence it is. Votes: 0
Steve PavlinaTo make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography. Votes: 0
Friedrich DurrenmattI believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance. Votes: 0
Sarah MoonThe essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic. Votes: 0
Arianna HuffingtonTo all the seeds that follow me protect your essence, Born with less, but you still precious. Votes: 0
Tupac ShakurHaving a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it. Votes: 0
Benjamin SpockThe essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is. Votes: 0
Sydney PollackLove - this is the essence of life. But you will not give your life to another. Votes: 0
Ruslana KorshunovaI get turned on by the idea of an essence - finding the essence of the thing. Votes: 0
Yvonne Adhiambo OwuorYou can't lose the essence of a song. I try to enhance it more than anything else. Votes: 0
Tom JonesSo they loved as love in twain Had the essence but in one; Two distinct, divisions none... Votes: 0
William ShakespeareTo administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem. Votes: 0
Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de MirabeauTo me, the media in New York and LA have always missed the essence of this country. Votes: 0
Jeff FoxworthyThe essence of Hinduism is that the path may be different, but the goal is the same. Votes: 0
Manmohan SinghKnow in the first place, that mankind agree in essence, as they do in limbs and senses. Votes: 0
Johann Kaspar LavaterThe essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends. Votes: 0
Walter E. WilliamsThe song of your soul is longing to be sung. Let your own essence express itself freely. Votes: 0
Brandon BaysHe who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiThe essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks. Votes: 0
Christopher HitchensThe essence of drama is that man cannot walk away from the consequences of his own deeds. Votes: 0
Harold HayesI try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be. Votes: 0
Dizzy GillespieThe essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends... Votes: 0
C. S. LewisThe essence of apostasy is changing sides from that of the crucified to that of the crucifier. Votes: 0
John StottIs it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? Votes: 0
Igor StravinskyCurves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple. Votes: 0
Oscar NiemeyerWhat lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age. Votes: 0
Peter BrodieNo one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. Votes: 0
Viktor E. FranklTo trust one's mind and to know that one is worthy of happiness is the essence of self-esteem. Votes: 0
Nathaniel BrandenTM® is helping you tap into something that's already inside of you - that's you in essence. Votes: 0
Cameron DiazSkiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat. Votes: 0
Van MorrisonI grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them. Votes: 0
Rupert Sandersa little essence is in what suit we wear and much in what we wear that suit us. Votes: 0
Ernest Agyemang YeboahThe sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny. Votes: 0
Victoria WoodhullSo what I did on the field was the essence of what I am. Remember me like that. Votes: 0
Steve CarltonThe essence of humour is surprise; that is why you laugh when you see a joke in Punch. Votes: 0
A. P. HerbertThe problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place. Votes: 0
Brian CoxThe essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try Votes: 0
Mary StewartLove, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonNo being can be what he is unless he is putting his essence into action in his field. Votes: 0
Arnold J. ToynbeeIt is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. Votes: 0
George BoolePride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin. Votes: 0
John StottThe essence of our whole path is in that place of discomfort, and what do we do with it? Votes: 0
Pema ChodronWhat you have in hand may be of less essence to knowing and using what you have in hand. Votes: 0
Ernest Agyemang YeboahTo be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.
Dwight D. EisenhowerThe essence of all religion is to be willing to risk your life for a belief - not for survival.
Helen Foster SnowMany people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism
John SearleInfluence requires humility. The essence of influence is others. The key word is relationships.
Johnny HuntIf grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.
R. C. SproulIn essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.
Andrea BocelliThe essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.
Bertrand RussellEvery man starts with all there is. Everything is here-the essence and substance of all there is.
Henry FordThe essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.
J. I. PackerTo imagine things other than they are is the essence of hope. It is also the stuff of revolution.
Leonard SweetThe external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.
Mahatma GandhiWe should learn to love everyone equally, because in essence we are all one, one Atman, one soul.
Mata AmritanandamayiThe inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all.
Nora VolkowMusic is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.
PlatoThe essence of voluntary simplicity is living in a way what is outwardly simple and inwardly rich.
Duane ElginEvaluations, in essence, are "¦ ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
Gilles DeleuzeThe world is simple, I think, in its essence. Life, death, love, hate. Desire, fulfillment. Magic.
Juliet MarillierThat's the essence of songcraft: making something everyone can understand yet it still sounds new.
Tristen GaspadarekFor the essence of science, I would suggest, is simply the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.
Barrington Moore, Jr.The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news.
Charles SpurgeonThe highest reaches of music come thrillingly close to the central core and essence of life itself.
Leopold StokowskiChristianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.
Yann MartelWhen we dance we touch the essence of who we are and experience the unity between spirit and matter.
Angeles ArrienPerception is, in essence, who we are. We are what we perceive. What we perceive defines who we are.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellI would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence.
Rod SerlingPurify yourself from the attributes of self, so that you may see your own pure, untarnished essence.
RumiWhy am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself
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