Quotes About Essence

This was what he'd been before Strych got him. This was the part of him that was my brother down to the bone.

Less is more, unless it's love or chocolate.

I just couldn't understand how you could go from being alive, from having molecules and blood cells constantly shifting around inside you, and thought processes and a mind full of memories and dreams and love and hate, and in just one tiny second these miraculous things stop and you're dead. How could all that disappear? What happened to your soul, your essence, your wonder? Just because a muscle stops beating? It made absolutely no sense.

I am simply a human being, more or less.

Jesus reduced the Torah to two points — loving God, loving others (the Jesus Creed) — not to abolish the many laws but to comprehend them and to see them in their innermost essence

Of the many ways to describe or articulate the Torah, two are pertinent in our text: one can either multiply laws so as to cover all possible situations, or one can reduce the law to its essence.

Yet we cannot fail to observe that the Golden Rule of 7:12 officially closes the teachings of Jesus in the Sermon and summarizes the essence of the Sermon.

What good is something that scales well if it sucks? Why is size the ultimate goal or even a goal at all?

Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

Religion by its very principle is not always logical; in essence, faith is believing in something you cannot understand with rational thought.

importance, essence, and averaging. The importance of diversity in complex systems is the central theme of this book. Why does diversity matter? What roles does it play? I show that diversity has many roles and effects. Diversity can provide insurance, improve productivity, spur innovation, enhance robustness, produce collective knowledge,

I trust my points are noted... Very noted... Received, recognized, and duly considered with the utmost gravity. Sealed, notarized, and firmly imprinted upon my rational essence.

Very noted," said Locke. "Received, recognized, and duly considered with the utmost gravity. Sealed, notarized, and firmly imprinted upon my rational essence.

By stripping down an image to its essential "meaning", an artist can amplify that meaning in a way that realistic art can't.

Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them.

Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time.

Time is of the essence, The crowd and players Are the same age always, But the man in the stand, Is older every season.

The love is what's left at the end because it's the bedrock, fundamental reality that gets hidden all the time, but never really goes away.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Every man is born to one possession which out values all his others - his last breath.

That was the greatest heart and the simplest that ever beat.

Somewhere inside her were the souls of words. They climbed out and stood beside her.