Quotes About Essence

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know.

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

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.

be the medulla oblongata.

Because the arts are not about what you can just see or sense; they're about discovering what underlies it all—

The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.

If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.

Semplicità significa sottrarre l'ovvio e aggiungere il significativo.

Basitlik, bariz olan? ç?kar?p anlaml? olan? ekleme iÅŸidir.

It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is…. If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each…. This is of the very essence of judicial duty.

You cannot become what you already are.

Remember about mountains: what they are made of is not what made them.

Sometimes, Shan's father had told him, people can live eighty and ninety years and only briefly, once or twice at most, glimpse the true things of life, the things that are the essence of the planet and of mankind. Sometimes people died without ever seeing a true thing. But, he had assured Shan, you can always find true things if you just know where to look.

If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile . . . her look . . . her way Of speaking gently . . . for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day- For these things in themselves, Beloved, may be changed, or change for thee- and love so wrought, May be unwrought so.

The words were low, more shape than breath.

Her scent wreathes round my head. Musk, and a field of pungent flowers. Heady, not sweet.

Was this what having an identity felt like? Was this being someone? Feeling like there was a core of who you were beyond which you could not be altered?

Beauty depends on the unseen, the visible upon the invisible

Beauty depends on the unseen, George quoted the artist, the visible upon the invisible.

Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe--the open sesame to every soul.

Not all that is plain is dross

The scent of a flower is a very close and intimate thing, she thought. It can seem to be a part of your body and blood.