Essence Quotes

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

I'm interested in authentic experience and the essence of that creative place, and where those myths begin and where they become real on any level.

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence of music. That's where you get the most out of it.

I think you have to be careful with spices. Kids' palates can be very delicate, and they might not like things overspiced. In my cookbooks for kids, I do a milder version of my signature spice blend, Emeril's Essence, called Baby Bam, which has no cayenne pepper.

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It's not just a couple of catchy songs and filler, so I felt that I needed to capture the essence of the album.

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.

I love to compete. That's the essence of who I am.

In essence, the science of agronomy is inseparable from biology.

The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America.

I think in the early part of my career, the roles were so disparate that it never gave anybody an opportunity to understand my essence and what I would be good at doing, as opposed to what I would not be good at doing, so these little moments of beautiful things that were happening to me were consistent, but very few and very far between.

Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.

She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.

The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

So what I did on the field was the essence of what I am. Remember me like that.

The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.