Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Jarvis

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

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.

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.

Ezra Pound

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

Jean Rhys

Life if curious when reduced to its essentials

Guy Finley

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

Fredrik Bajer

I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points.

Harold B. Lee

The recurrence of fundamentals is essential to perpetuity.

Judi Dench

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life".

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.

Hillary Clinton

American leadership is essential.

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.

Pope Benedict XVI

Humor is in fact an essential element in the mirth of creation. We can see how, in many matters in our lives, God wants to prod us into taking things a bit more lightly.

Rachael Ray

The most essential part of my day is a proper dinner.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

Nathaniel Branden

The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told: 'Because of what you are, you are essential to my happiness.'

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.

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.

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.

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.