Quotes About Essence

I think I'm a girl's girl in the sense that I support women a lot, and I'm definitely all for girl power, but I think I'm quite a tomboy at heart - even though I love my fashion and dressing up, I think my essence is very boyish.

I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

If we want our kids to learn about the true essence of life, we have to take time out of our busy schedule and teach them the values before it is too late.

My early colleagues and myself helped create the life styles of Americans and, by osmosis, of the rest of the world. I found it difficult to reconcile success with humility. I tried it first, but it meant avoiding the very essence of my career - total exhilaration and the ecstasy of creativity.

If we are what we have, and we have nothinh, thenwho are we? Are we nothing?

primera línea, aquellos que conforman la base de la pirámide

All that remains of me now is a rumour of beauty.

of day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.

For anyone who understood the essence of modernism based on and originating in the secularizing and humanistic tendencies of the European Renaissance, it was easy to detect the confrontation that was already taking place between traditional and modern elements in the Islamic world.

It is often very helpful to use creative visualization in picturing yourself as a more relaxed, open person, flowing, living in the here and now, and always connected with your inner essence.

Shannon Greenland

Smell is the voice of the soul...

Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.

I do not know what a soul is, I think of it as the smallest, the core, civil right.

I am who I am, born that way, and will die that way.

We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior.

It's that...what I want isn't what I need.

The moral justification of a democratic mandate rest on the fulfillment of its promises and essence.

To insiders, it was a "scientific" worldview that enabled its possessors to rid themselves and others of all kinds of prejudice and superstition—and incidentally master an aggressive debating style characterized by generous use of sarcasm about the motives and putative "class essence" of opponents.

I know that character exists from the outside alone. I know that inside the body there's just temperature.

A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

Somewhere there is an essence. It is not a physical somewhere. There is no sense of world, of time and space. That is nirvana.