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Quotes About Essential

Narrow life down to what's precious and necessary. In a world of complexity the best weapon is simplicity.
~ Price Pritchett
I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.
~ H. G. Wells
Commitment . . . is a binding, but happy, response to duty. It is at once peaceful yet compelling, for it obligates one to action. It is essential to the good life. It is doing what everyone can do.
~ James M. Paramore
Being pro-life is an essential part of being a writer.
~ Nat Hentoff
Music is an essential part of my life and I'm completely lost without a good album to listen to or my iPod in my pocket!
~ Alfred Molina
If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential for civilised life, it was tea.
~ Ann Leckie
Hope is an essential constituent of human life.
~ Benjamin Franklin
To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean - that's scary to me. It was essential to at least try surfing again and get out there and see how it went.
~ Bethany Hamilton
In spite of our high-tech world and efficient procedures, people remain the essential ingredient of life.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
Nothing is as important as the biggest day in your life.
~ Chris Matthews
Franklin, "Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."18
~ Edward J. Larson
People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.
~ Edward Norton
Love is the natural constitution of life, its main clause, the sex, and others such as respect, equality, and tolerance are the essential terms to succeed the pleasure of life.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
But above all I no longer wanted to know if it was strychnine or something else that had killed Otto. The dog had fallen through a hole in the net of events. We leave so many of them, lacerations of negligence, when we put together cause and effect. The essential thing was that the string, the weave that now supported me, should hold. 43.
~ Elena Ferrante
Que desperdício seria, pensei, estragar nossa história dando espaço excessivo aos maus sentimentos: os maus sentimentos são inevitáveis, mas o essencial é represá-los.
~ Elena Ferrante
There was something unbearable in the things, in the people, in the buildings, in the streets that, only if you reinvented it all, as in a game, became acceptable. The essential, however, was to know how to play, and she and I, only she and I, knew how to do it.
~ Elena Ferrante
My patients brought me so close to the reality of human life that I could not help learning essential things from them. Encounters with people of so many different kinds and on so many different psychological levels have been for me incomparably more important than fragmentary conversations with celebrities
~ Anthony Stevens
One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old magic, its essential spellbinding power, for its mysterious possibilities have been forgotten.
~ Antonin Artaud
Eres cuanto te necesitan, no cuanto eres.
~ Antonio Porchia
Like him, Uncle had eccentric tastes and liked old things. The difference, Silas was beginning to see, was that Uncle saw such objects as extensions of himself, of his body, essential, required, uniquely his. This thought made Silas uneasy.
~ Ari Berk
You see, for me [art]'s not one of life's ornaments, rococo relaxation to be greeted affably after a day of hard work; I'm inverted on this : for me it's my very breath, the one thing necessary, and all else is excretion and a latrine.
~ Arno Schmidt
Humble prayer to our Heavenly Father, in deep faith in Jesus Christ, is essential to qualify us for the companionship of the Holy Ghost.
~ Henry B. Eyring
Central to being a humanist, which I am, is the core understanding that doubt and criticism are essential attributes in the quest for knowledge.
~ Clive Lewis