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Quotes About Essence

Power is the essence of the Christian witness.
~ Reinhard Bonnke
I saw a martyr in the Wolf Man, who is the very moving essence of outsiderness, with which I identified fully.
~ Guillermo del Toro
A woman simply is, but a man must become.
~ Camille Paglia
Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.
~ Sheri L. Dew
I respect Malayalam films the same way I respect Bengali films. I think Malayalam films have not compromised on the essence and have kept their own statement and are coming up with very good themes.
~ Prosenjit Chatterjee
Colours exist for me as entities in themselves, as metaphysical beings.
~ Etel Adnan
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
~ Erich Fromm
In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.
~ Robert Delaunay
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can really see how someone thinks and penetrate to the essence of who that person is.
~ Terry Gross
The essence of a thoughtful spring menu is bringing the table to life with flavorful color!
~ Sherry Yard
Really, there's hardly anything to say about anything. I mean, you could say it all, all that mattered, in a few sentences.
~ Rose Macaulay
Try to capture what you can't bear to be without
~ Rosie Thomas
I don't know how to answer, or to explain how I feel or what I see, so I don't, only that I feel sure somehow that once that essence of life leaves a person, it changes what's left behind so completely that it must be some kind of entity, some kind of force that goes somewhere, even if it's just out among the stars.
~ Rowan Coleman
To use infinite agency to close a gap is to rob it of its infinite character.
~ Rowan Williams
In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music.
~ Roy H. Williams
A morte exige brevidade de palavras, porque o tempo é curto. E, sendo curto o tempo, as palavras devem dizer o essencial.
~ Rubem Alves
Mas a alma não sabe o que é isso, o não existir. Aquilo que é sentido existe. A alma é um lugar assombrado onde moram as mais estranhas criaturas que, sem existirem, existem.
~ Rubem Alves
Feelings are for the soul what food is for the body.
~ Rudolf Steiner
That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.
~ Rudolf Steiner
You're born naked and the rest is drag." In truth, you are not your clothes, you are not your profession, you are not your religion. You are an extension of the consciousness that guides the universe, for which there is no name because it cannot be defined. That's why all the superficial things you list as your identity are in reality your "drag.
~ RuPaul
Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things. Hence it has robbed the whole world, the human world as well as nature, of its proper value. Money is the alienated essence of man's labour and life, and this alien essence dominates him as he worships
~ Rupert Woodfin
The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.
~ Russell Baker
A story is what remains when you leave out most of the action.
~ Russell Hoban