Famous Quotes & Sayings

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".

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj.

Henry Cloud

Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Was his death an essential stage in the continuation of his life?

Orson Welles

The basic and essential human is the woman.

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.

William Blake

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

Joan Halifax

There is the in-breath and there is the out-breath, and too often we feel like we have to exhale all the time. The inhale is absolutely essential-and then you can exhale.

George Leonard

To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life.

Georg Solti

From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.

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.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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

Lord Kelvin

To live among friends is the primary essential of happiness.

Paul Klee

Make chance essential.

Judi Dench

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

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.

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.

Simon Sinek

Systems and processes are essential to keep the crusade going, but they should not replace the crusade.

Richard Holbrooke

It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive action

Winston Churchill

Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Discerning our personal gifts is essential if we are to experience harmony in our lives.

William Osler

The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.