Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Gilbert

Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.

Peter Jennings

It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Roosevelt did, as John F. Kennedy did, as Ronald Reagan did.

Juliet Stevenson

I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.

Otto Wallach

As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.

Paul Klee

Make chance essential.

Paul Auster

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

Mikhail Bakunin

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

Nathan Meyer Rothschild

We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.

Nadine Gordimer

when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.

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.

At FDA, our mission is to promote and protect the health of the public. As commissioner, I've worked hard to galvanize people around that idea. I want employees to be thinking about the unique and essential contribution they are making to our mission.

John Ruskin

No one can explain how the notes of a Mozart melody, or the folds of a piece of Titian's drapery, produce their essential effects. If you do not feel it, no one can by reasoning make you feel it.

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.

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.

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.

Neale Donald Walsch

We crave, we deeply yearn for, release from the limitations of a dogma that declares separation, disunity, and judgment to be the essential condition of life.

John Shadegg

These smugglers, many of them present in trafficking through my State of Arizona, create false Social Security cards, false green cards, visas and a variety of other fraudulent documents as an essential part of their smuggling activities.

James Hansen

Rising carbon price is essential to 'decarbonize' the economy - to remove the nation towards the era beyond fossil fuels.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential if central planning on a large scale is to be possible.

William Blake

The essentials to happiness are something to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

The essential point we want to make is that interstellar travel, far from being easy, presents problems for which we do not have valid solutions.

Henri Bergson

The essential function of the universe, which is a machine for making gods

D. H. Lawrence

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic and a killer

John Burnside

The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues - compassion, wonder, humility, respect for the mysterious - are far from conventionally heroic.

The differences between Sears Grand and Sears Essentials are not that great. It made sense to have a single name for our off-mall stores.

Lee Miller

The distribution of essential commodities is going well, ... We are trying to get more supplies on the way, and the distribution seems to be working well.

Albert Einstein

The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

The home market is essential for the Japanese automakers to do well as it helps them generate the resources they need to expand overseas,

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

John Ashcroft

This is not the end of the journey. This is an important set of first steps essential to the journey's end, but not sufficient to get us there.

Soren Kierkegaard

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.

Tim Berners-Lee

The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect,