Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

What disconcerts the modern world at its very roots is not being sure, and not seeing how it ever could be sure, that there is an outcome-a suitable outcome to evolution. Half our present uneasiness would be turned to happiness if we could once make up our minds to accept the facts and place the essence and the measure of our modern cosmogonies within a noogenesis.

Queen Rania of Jordan

At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

Pythagoras

To cognize the Divine Essence - this is the highest purpose of soul, sent by the Creator to the Earth!

Rupert Sanders

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

Thomas Carlyle

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

Steven Spielberg

The essence of what it is to be American is the deep moral urge to be free, to freely express yourself and have the right to do so, and to look at all people as equals.

Steven Biko

The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power

Lisa Alther

A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.

Lili Taylor

When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

Reggie Watts

In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth.

Tom Shadyac

I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.

Sallust

The essences of the Gods never came into existence (for that which always is never comes into existence; and that exists for ever which possesses primary force and by nature suffers nothing): neither do they consist of bodies; for even in bodies the powers are incorporeal. Neither are they contained by space; for that is a property of bodies. Neither are they separate from the first cause nor from one another, just as thoughts are not separate from mind nor acts of knowledge from the soul.

Ron Paul

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies.

Saadi

Though someday we may become as eloquent as Sahban, but we might also miss the essence of the Forgiving One.

Saadi

It is wrong to follow the advice of an adversary; nevertheless it is right to hear it, that you may do the contrary; and this is the essence of good policy.

Rumi

Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself

Rumi

The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.

Rumi

Purify yourself from the attributes of self, so that you may see your own pure, untarnished essence.

Rumi

Although you appear in earthly form Your essence is pure Consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of Divine Light.

Simon Schama

Nations don't start out. There is not a particular moment when they unveil the essence of themselves. They are always a work in progress.

Tim Bajarin

Apple has struck a cultural nerve, especially with Generation X and Gen Y, while Windows and PC are viewed in essence as 'My parents' computer'.

Thomas Traherne

The sense itself was I. I felt no dross or matter in my soul, no brims or borders, such as in a bowl we see. My essence was capacity.

Shannyn Sossamon

I did short film with Damian Lewis from Homeland, that was a really incredible experience. He's one of the best actors I've ever worked with. Even though that's a short film for Jaguar that's really, in essence, a commercial, it didn't feel like it, at all.

Seymour Papert

What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate

Leonard Peltier

AIM in essence is a movement rather than just an organization. It is a manifestation of the desperation of our people.

Laura Riding

The sciences that purport to treat of human things -- the new scientific storyings of the social, the political, the racial or ethnic, and the psychic, nature of human beings -- treat not of human things but mere things, things that make up the physical, or circumstantial, content of human life but are not of the stuff of humanity, have not the human essence in them.

Marco Rubio

If you got to [abortion] centers, young women are provided very few options, in many places they're not told anything about, for example, adoption services that may be available to them. The idea that, in essence, you come in and it's already pre-determined, this is what place this place does. It provides abortions, and we are going to channel you in this direction.

Marcus Aurelius

Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.

Sigmund Freud

The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some progress.

Shelley Long

In television, and especially in a situation comedy, you kind of play yourself, or at least the essence of yourself.

Stevie Nicks

I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left.

Tariq Ramadan

Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.