Famous Quotes & Sayings

R. D. Laing

Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as is our separateness, but any particular person is not a necessary part of our being.

Jean Rhys

Life if curious when reduced to its essentials

Bill White

Do not come back until word is given by local authorities, ... This is not the time to return unless you have an essential job. You are endangering others if you do that.

Support is essential to the realization of every successful outcome.

J. Taylor

They've pre-positioned a lot of stocks of food and water and medicine, ... They have been preparing to start up on small reconstruction projects, in particular those that will restore essential services.

Ameen Rihani

Not in our make-up, to be sure - not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet - do the essential traits in our character first reveal themselves. But truly in the little things the real self is exteriorised.

Joanna Garcia

It's so important to have a great relationship with your physician. It's one of those essential relationships that I find to be as important to nurture as any other relationship in your life. Without your health, you have nothing.

William Brennan

It's always essential to be able to relate to previous experiences.

It's about discovering the essential qualities. Otherwise, a destination is just a destination.

Sathya Baba

It is such broad-minded mothers who are needed today. Good mothers are more essential than good wives.

It's a phenomenon that people treat lightly, and it should not be treated lightly. It's something that's essential to human beings: listening to stories.

It's a really luscious fish. It's high in essential fatty acids, which are good for you. And Californians know that.

It opened a lot of people's eyes. That day, people here realized how essential information technology can be.

They are the records that are essential to understanding whether justice is being served.

David Nabarro

It may be more important to concentrate on the essentials of life for those who are living than it is to focus on the treatment of those who are sick.

Bill Owen

It's going to be an essential headquarters location for some of the worldwide operations as well as geographically for North America.

Theodore Roosevelt

The public must retain control of the great waterways. It is essential that any permit to obstruct them for reasons and on conditions that seem good at the moment should be subject to revision when changed conditions demand.

Michael Bell

Exploring the thought process through visual journaling is essential in a world that is in continuous change.

Michel Foucault

Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.

Paul Auster

The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.

Judi Dench

The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?

Joseph Joubert

The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.

Ezra Pound

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

George Sanders

I am essential to the theater,

Jeff Jarvis

Make linking to the rest an essential part of what you do best.

George III

It is essential to our interest and the security of our colonies that the several nations or tribes of Indians... who live under our protection, should not be molested or disturbed.

George W. Bush

It's essential that we do what's right - not necessarily what appears to be immediately popular.

If fully a quarter of your people don't show up, you are going to have to do some serious juggling to make sure the essential services continue. We've been trying to figure out where we can get people to plug into these holes.

I could tell we had the essential pieces in the summer, and the kids have done everything I've asked. Some teams have a lot of goals, but our one goal is for the kids to be perfect practice players.

Guy Finley

What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?

Gary Bauer

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

Gao Xingjian

What is essential is whether it is perceived and not whether it exists. To exist and yet not to be perceived is the same as not exist.

Jim Crace

The Commonwealth Prize is about celebrating the Commonwealth and the special relationship we have with the ex-colonies - which is part guilt and part warmth - and the Booker Prize isn't an essential part of that, but it is part of that.