Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friends of history will help you preserve essential material that is often times not visible.

Charles Kennedy

I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

Edmund Burke

Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection.

Secrecy can be sexy. It's essential to any good mystery novel.

Ethel Percy Andrus

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man

Angela Davis

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals

Dan Quayle

Most women do not want to be liberated from their essential natures as women.

Dallas Willard

In a world apart from God, the power of denial is absolutely essential if life is to proceed. The will or spirit cannot-psychologically cannot-sustain itself for any length of time in the face of what it clearly acknowledges to be the case. Therefore it must deny and evade and delude itself.

Andy Stanley

Courage is essential to leadership.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

If you have time to knit, if you've taken up knitting, it means you're not worried about the essential stuff.

Jeb Bush

Today is a good day to get your supplies and to execute your preparedness plans that are so essential for safety,

Good governance is essential for managing our increasingly stretched supplies of freshwater and indispensable for tackling poverty.

It is great to have Hassan back. He is one of our leaders. He is a vocal guy on the team and he has been here four years. He knows what is going on. He is an essential part of our offense and defense.

Terry Riley

La monte's idea was just to have this one big form that were just long tones, I think that was the real essential heart of minimalist music.

We're in the middle of a wave of mergers and acquisitions. It's one of the essential motors for stocks this year.

Kit Bond

For this reason, it is essential that our Nation's rural transportation professionals be provided with the necessary tools and support to promote and showcase the value, benefits, and accomplishments of rural transportation planning and development.

Kofi Annan

I think it was essential that he paid the money.

He is a free-market person, as I think most Americans are. The one exception is for basic, essential commodities during an emergency.

Nouriel Roubini

Global imbalances are growing, cross-border financing needs are increasing and a smooth-functioning financial system is now essential for this.

Larry Fitzgerald

I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.

Hermann von Helmholtz

The older view of the nature of heat was that it is a substance, very fine and imponderable indeed, but indestructible, and unchangeable in quantity, which is an essential fundamental property of all matter.

Brad Goreski

Wearing a great shoe is essential for me.

Brendan Myers

If loneliness is part of our essence, that is, our essential nature, that is only because of the way, in practical terms, we actually exist; that is, the way we move and work and live in the world.

The parents have been essential to this process. Without their help, this never would have come together.

We're hoping to help a segment that's already shopping at our stores but wasn't necessarily finding what was essential to them.

We see this initiative as an essential step in our growth.

The government of Pakistan would be welcome to use this contribution for rebuilding homes and rehabilitating people, reconstructing the infrastructure and restoring essential services.

Alexandra Stoddard

How we feel about ourselves as we read the newspaper, set the table, wash the dishes, recycle the trash and wash our clothes... is essential to our overall happiness and well-being.

Wesley Clark

We've hit at his power plants because they're essential to running every part of his military machine, ... and this has proven to be effective.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

Henry B. Eyring

Repentance, prayer, and pondering over the scriptures are essential parts of our qualifying for the gifts of the Spirit in our priesthood service. Further magnification of our power to serve will come as we respond with faith to go forward in our callings with the Holy Ghost to help us.

With such a large proposed increase, it's essential for students to have a unified stance. This did not occur this year.