Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Perry

The essence is that many procrastinators are "structured procrastinators," people who, like me, get a lot done as a way of not working on what they should ideally be working on.

John Piper

What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death. They are one: choosing sugarcoated misery we mock the lifegiving God. It was meant to be another way: God's glory exalted in our everlasting joy.

Mark Thomas

The essence of Christianity, as I see it, is love. The essence of Humanism (and I'm also a Humanist) is love. At that level, we're not far apart.

Seth Godin

The essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates with them so they are likely to either respond or connect to you, or tell their friends.

Kimora Lee Simmons

Be true to yourself, and stick with who you are through thick and thin without letting anyone dilute your essence.

Michael Parenti

The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.

Ravi Zacharias

Conviction is not merely an opinion. It is something rooted so deeply in the conscience that to change a conviction would be to change the very essence of who you are.

Jacques Maritain

To be free is of the essence of every intellectual being.

Henry Fuseli

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

Henry Blodget

Pornography works to a degree, high quality works, bad is obvious. Nobody goes for bad. The terrible middle ground is the mediocre. That was kind of the essence, in a way, of broadcast television when there were only three channels.

Mary Stewart

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

Martin Rees

During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth - is set by their structure, on scales far smaller even than a microscope can see. Everything on Earth is made of atoms, which are, especially in living things, combined together in intricate molecular assemblages.

John Trudell

It’s like there is this predator energy on this planet, and this predator energy feeds on the essence of the spirit.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.

Nora Volkow

The inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all.

Niels Bohr

Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature

Morris Raphael Cohen

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

The Guru has dispelled my doubt; in this way, my essence merges into God's essence.

Ariel Sharon

The ideological essence of this man was one -- the murder and killing of Jews wherever they are and the destruction of the state of Israel,

Peter Drucker

The essence of management is to make knowledge productive.

May Sarton

There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for me, being with people or even with one beloved person for any length of time without solitude is even worse. I lose my center. I feel dispersed, scattered, in pieces. I must have time alone in which to mull over my encounter, and to extract its juice, its essence, to understand what has really happened to me as a consequence of it.

Bill Ferguson

Purpose is the natural expression of who you are. It utilizes all your gifts and talents. It's your passion and you are very good at it. Life purpose is the very essence of you.

Michael Chertoff

Speed was of the essence when the hurricane hit,

You're in essence going to shoot in the head a $626 million industry. It doesn't make any sense . . . You're sending the message that foreigners need not apply. I just think it's one of the most perverse, and poorly thought through and counterproductive pieces of legislation you could imagine.

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.

Roy H. Williams

In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation as music.