Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Kazinsky

I was such a fan of 'True Blood;' I knew the essence of it.

Talulah Riley

'St. Trinian's' is probably taking it to the extreme, but in essence it's saying, 'If you be yourself, you can do whatever you want,' and it's sort of a fun message.

Charles Peguy

It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

Dennis Prager

Finding patterns is the essence of wisdom

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. Without such a goal, chastity is bound to become ridiculous. Chastity is the sine qua non of lucidity and concentration.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing.

Ed Parker

Having an open mind does not necessarily lead to perfection. It is your ability to observe, analyze, discern, and understand the true essence that basic principles contain that point the way to perfection.

Elizabeth Bowen

Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final.

Deepak Chopra

The essence of wisdom is to see that there is always a solution once you realize that the mind, which seems to create so much suffering, has infinite potential to create fulfillment instead.

Charles Peguy

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

Tristan Taylor

When the tragedy first happened, I wished there was a way I could go there and help.

Richard Dormer

We want to keep it like that. We don't want a tragedy to occur.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

Carlton Cuse

Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic.

Carl Jung

The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body.

Antonin Artaud

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

Charlie Munger

Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

Charlie Munger

Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer faster than you by, for example, investing in risky stocks, so what?! Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

Arnon Goldfinger

Many people think making a film about history... about war... about the Holocaust, it might be heavy, dramatic and traumatic. I don't see things like that... you can find irony everywhere. It's how I look at life.

John Reeves

Of all the dramatic media, radio is the most visual.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Maybe John Kerry does not know - but I am happy to explain it to him - that my commitment to withdraw the troops goes back before the tragic, dramatic terrorist attack.

James Gray

needed to do something dramatic in order to gain in their warped world respect for his newly formed gang.

Lykke Li

I'm always looking for silhouettes that seem 'invisible' to the eye, as in that it's so well-tailored to your body that you won't even notice what you're wearing. It needs to be dramatic in a subtle way.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

So I think that is one of the reasons we can face some regional problems, which are very difficult, very dramatic and is necessary to have instruments to solve these problems. NATO is such instrument.

Jessica Lowndes

I have enough drama in my career, and then always playing dramatic roles and storylines... I like to lead a very low profile.

Joanna Trollope

I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened.

Chester Brown

There I was limited to what happened the same way I am with Riel. It doesn't feel like a great burden to have your story, to some degree, set. I am enjoying figuring out what I think is the most dramatic way of telling this set of historical facts.