Famous Quotes & Sayings

Luther Burbank

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

Orson Scott Card

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

Rick Riordan

Indeed, "Hera said. ―Porphyrion, the strongest of his kind. Gaea needed a great deal of power to raise him again —my power. For weeks I‘ve grown weaker as my essence was used to grow him a new form." ―So you‘re like a heat lamp,"Leo guessed. ―Or fertilizer.

T Bone Burnett

The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.

Swami Vivekananda

For a time it seemed inevitable that the surging tide of agnosticism and materialism would sweep all before it. There were those who did not dare utter what they thought. Many thought the case hopeless and the cause of religion lost once and for ever. But the tide has turned and to the rescue has come - what? The study of comparative religions. By the study of different religions we find that in essence they are one.

Rollo May

The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.

Starhawk

At its essence, the message of the Occupations is simply this: ‘Here in the face of power we will sit and create a new society, in which you do count.’

Starhawk

What affects one thing affects, in some way, all things: All is interwoven into the continuous fabric of being. Its warp and weft are energy, which is the essence of magic.

Stanley Kubrick

The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.

William Shenstone

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

Samuel P. Huntington

The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes Western culture. The essence of Western civilization is the Magna Carta, not the Magna Mac. The fact that non-Westerners may bite into the latter has no implications for their accepting the former.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

Richard Hofstadter

The intellectual ... may live for ideas, as I have said, but something must prevent him from living for one idea, from becoming obsessive or grotesque. Although there have been zealots whom we may still regard as intellectuals, zealotry is a defect of the breed and not of the essence.

Russell Baker

The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.

Rebecca Miller

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.

Richard Rorty

We are equal inhabitants of a paradise of individuals in which everybody has the right to be understood.

Robert Delaunay

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable

Rod Serling

Most shows, buying shows, have a standard fee for the first shot of the writer and if you have a very militant agent, I suppose he might jack it up four percent or something. But in essence, you sell for what is the going rate.

Rod Serling

I would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence.

Sandra Bernhard

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

Samuel Johnson

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

Virginia Woolf

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Zora Neale Hurston

Mystery is the essence of divinity

Yves Klein

Every phenomenon manifests itself of its own accord. This manifestation is always distinct from form, and is the essence of the immediate, the trace of the immediate.

William Hazlitt

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

Will Smith

Gettin' jiggy wit it is, like, the next level of cool. It's cool to the eighth power. Some people are fly, some people are kind of hot. But when you are the jiggiest, when you exude jiggy-essence, it's the acme of cool.

Walter Bagehot

The essence of Toryism is enjoyment?but as far as communicating and establishing your creed are concernedtrya little pleasure. The way to keep up old customs is, to enjoy old customs; the way to be satisfied with the present state of things is, to enjoy that state of things.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

Radhanath Swami

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

Radhanath Swami

Speak the essence and live by it.

Radhanath Swami

We have to seek the essence of all religions; then we can see how spirituality actually unites us and empowers us instead of breaking us down.

Radhanath Swami

Pure love of God is our nature, but we are so much diverted, so much distracted by the externals that we've forgotten that it's our essence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.