Essence Quotes

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left.

We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence.

We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about.

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step.

The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.

The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.

The essence of the Way is detachment.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you.

It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.

Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away.

In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music.

My Food Network shows, 'Emeril Live' and 'Essence of Emeril,' are not in production right now, but I wouldn't say that I'm necessarily leaving Food Network. I have a lot of television still in me. I enjoy teaching people, so it's just a matter of time before I do something new.