Quotes About Essence

Our individual liberty is the very essence of America. It is what makes America unique.

You are defined by your ingredients, by the way you touch them, by the flavors you draw from them.

A revolutionary party is, in its essence, the party of its leader that carries out his ideology and cause, and the main thing in its building is to ensure the unitary character and inheritance of his ideology and leadership.

A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.

Equipment has heart, human heart, inside it.

I'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing.

There's no training for the business, no credentials necessary to enter... It's all about entrepreneurs, innate street intelligence, and instincts. It's a business which encourages people with dreams. That's the essence of Hollywood.

Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character.

What does it mean to be human, and what is at the human heart, and is there a soul, or is that all there is? Can an artificial being be intelligent? Is 'intelligent' the definition of humanity, or is it something deeper?

You write a character, but in essence, it's just a concept of what it could be, and then actors come in and they have their own sort of interpretations and thoughts. If you respond to those and then go forward with them, then it's kind of like magic to see the idea you had become alive and in the flesh.

If I interview somebody for an hour, I'm looking for four amazing minutes.

The feeling of glamour just wasn't in the air.

Women fell in love with Mary. They thought of her as unattainably beautiful and adopted as many of her mannerisms as they could. It didn't matter to them that she lacked that element, raw and beckoning, that trailed like a vapor after Gabrielle. There was an exotic, ladylike essence in Mary that stunned women who understood just what utter waxlike, blossom perfection she was.

She told me my clitoris is not something I could lose. It was me, the essence of me. It was both the doorbell to my house and the house itself. I didn't have to find it. I had to be it. Be it. Be my clitoris. Be my clitoris.

We think we need to be able to trust, just as we think we need to be able to be loved. But we have it backwards. As adults, we don't need to be loved. The only real emotional need, if we want to call it that, is to love. To love is our essence; it is who we are.

The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and validity of these words is in the care of the damned and despised litterati...when their very medium, the very essence of their work, the application of word to thing goes rotten, i.e. becomes slushy and inexact, or excessive or bloated, the whole machinery of social and of individual thought and order goes to pot.

What thou lovest well remains. The rest is dross.

The natural object is always the adequate symbol.

Very little, really, in life is lost; material things, now and then; money which is material but necessary, often; friends, relatives, sometimes through estrangements. True love never, I believe. Death does not rob us of the essential person we have loved and still love. It deprives us of the physical presence, but never of the spiritual closeness, or of memories.

The Yale report explained that the essence of liberal education was "not to teach that which is peculiar to any one of the professions; but to lay the foundation which is common to them all.

Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.

The essence of all human rights is the equality of the entire human race, which the Qur'?n assumed, affirmed, and confirmed. It obliterated all distinctions among men except goodness and virtue (taqw?)

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

La rosa, no buscaba ni ciencia ni sombra: confín de carne y sueño, buscaba otra cosa. La rosa, no buscaba la rosa.