Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Ellis

We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.

Albert Camus

There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

Albert Camus

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Daniel Kahneman

This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.

Dan Chaon

It doesn't matter what you do. In the end, you are going to be judged, and all the times that you're not at your most dignified are the ones that will be recalled in all their vivid, heartbreaking detail. And then of course these things will be distorted and exaggerated and replayed over and over, until eventually they turn into the essence of you: your cartoon.

Colin Powell

We have to be on guard that we don't spend so much time worrying about terrorism and guarding ourselves that we start to lose the essence of who we are as an open, freedom-loving people, welcoming to the rest of the world.

Clive James

The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.

Douglas Hofstadter

In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.

Andre Dubus

I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.

Anatole France

Change is the essence of life.

Anatole France

I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.

Anais Nin

I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself.

Amanda Lindhout

I've realized that the world is, in essence, full of banana peels - loaded with things that may unwittingly trip an internal wire in my mind, opening a floodgate of fears without warning.

Andrew Weil

The essence of health is inner balance.

Chuck Palahniuk

The police are asking through the bedroom door, why did I make a batch of strawberry daiquiris before I called them? Because we were out of raspberries. Because, can't they see, it just does not matter. Time was not of the essence.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.

Alvar Aalto

The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture

Alvin Ailey

Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.

Ambrose Bierce

Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.

Alicia Keys

I acted before I sang. And I did The Cosby Show, and things like that. But the music kind of came first. And it was a part of my essence. So I knew that I would evolve into this world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.

Dalai Lama

We are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. Everybody is my peer group. Your feeling "I am of no value" is wrong. Absolutely wrong.

David A. Bednar

Knowing that the gospel is true is the essence of a testimony. Consistently being true to the gospel is the essence of conversion.

Daphne du Maurier

Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.

Dante Alighieri

Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow.

Dan Simmons

You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.

David Lyons

Listening is the essence of anything.

Confucius

Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.

Confucius

The Essence of Knowledge is, having it, to use it.

David Bohm

Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.

Anthony Mackie

If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.

Alfred Brendel

Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.

Alfred de Vigny

A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.