Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Wall

Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.

Paul Buchheit

Pick three key attributes or features, get those things very, very right, and then forget about everything else… By focusing on only a few core features in the first version, you are forced to find the true essence and value of the product.

Oscar Wilde

Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

Oscar Wilde

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

Oscar Wilde

The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

Louis Kronenberger

The essence of the expert is that his field shall be very special and narrow: one of the ways in which he inspires confidence is to rigidly limit himself to the little toe; he would scarcely venture an off-the-record opinion on an infected little finger.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Conflict is the very essence of life.

Martin Heidegger

Form displays the relation [to beings] itself as the state of original comportment toward beings, the festive state in which the being itself in its essence is celebrated and thus for the first time placed in the open.

Mary MacLane

But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.

Masanobu Fukuoka

When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

Martha Beck

Here is the crux of the matter, the distilled essence, the only thing you need to remember: When considering whether to say yes or no, you must choose the response that feels like freedom. Period.

Oswald Chambers

We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.

Michael Novak

In The Federalist, James Madison called the rage for equality 'a wicked project.' People differ and rewards differ-that's the essence of both liberty and justice. No nation that rewards effort, talent, inventiveness and luck can even pretend to cherish equal outcomes. In an inventive and dynamic society, equal (even relatively equal) incomes can be achieved only by abandoning liberty for tyranny.

Christopher Hitchens

The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.

Chris Rose

It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words.

Germaine Greer

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

George Santayana

By "essence" I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or to thought.... This object of pure sense or pure thought, with no belief superadded, an object inwardly complete and individual, but without external relations or physical status, is what I call an essence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

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.

Eckhart Tolle

The essence of every form is the deathless. Even the essence of a blade of grass is the deathless. And that's why the world of form is sacred.

Eckhart Tolle

Because we all carry the Truth within us as our essence, we recognize it immediately.

Eckhart Tolle

Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.. It is finding the essence of who you are.

Eckhart Tolle

Just as without silence there could be no sound, you would not exist without the vital formless dimension that is the essence of who you are.

Eckhart Tolle

God is beyond all the forms of life, but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond and within.

Eckhart Tolle

When life takes away the forms that you thought were the foundation of your life, what's left? The life that needs no foundation - that is the foundation. The formless. The essence.

Lee Evans

I like it when the waiter askes you if you want parmesan cheese on your dinner, yeah, give me essence of puke all over me tea!

Terry Goodkind

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.

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.

Sri Aurobindo

The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.

Rupert Sanders

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

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.

Robert M. Pirsig

Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness.

Virginia Satir

We need to see ourselves as basic miracles.