Quotes About Essential

Simple answers, reductionist politics, are the most prone to compromise, to saying we're addressing the essential issue and all that other stuff can slide. It is, in reality, people who slide.

Essential political decisions are made not once, but again and again in a variety of situations, always against that pressure to compromise, to bargain

We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.

The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second.

race was presumed to be an essential biological category. This is not a happy-ending tale of science overcoming racism.

A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.

it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value.

A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.

Yes, Unit. That's why we hired you for this series of shoots—you're a unit. You're good-looking but not too good-looking, and your face has the quality most essential for effective clip art: it's pretty much impossible to remember.

There are many essential police skills they don't teach you at the Academy," said Pendergast. "Ass covering, as it is so charmingly termed, being the most important.

Somewhere inside I always knew that everything was one—that I was eternal, unborn, undying, and uncreated. I understood that my essential nature was not limited by or confined to my personality structure or the body I seemed to be inhabiting. There had been a dissolving, in a somewhat radical way, of the world as I had known it and of the self I had known myself to be.

He felt a strange pang. It was, perhaps, the fault of old Mr Jonathan, speaking of Juliet... No Juliet here - unless perhaps one could imagine Juliet a survivor - living on, deprived of Romeo... Was it not an essential part of Juliet's make-up that that she should die young?

I have always believed that a love of nature was essentially a healthy sign in a man.

To be so important is to be very useful

Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.

Even though you can't get along without your smartphone, there are not many essential services on your smartphone. They're mostly convenience; you could live without it. Essential means you die without it. A gadget that warns you're about to have a heart attack - that's essential. We're about to go into that phase with smartphones.

I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man's scientific and philosophical development.

The Internet is like the phone. To be without it is ridiculous.

Before a long-haul flight, buy yourself a cheap, big, comfortable pillow. It makes a huge difference.

You have to have your wallet for security reasons. I'm the governor. And I had to have money. I had to buy something to eat. You have to have identification.

Isn't it essential in any prelude to a war to be sure of your allies and be sure of your objectives?

Every man needs a good pair of jeans. It's the ultimate wardrobe staple because most of us wear them more than anything else.

The Commonwealth Prize is about celebrating the Commonwealth and the special relationship we have with the ex-colonies - which is part guilt and part warmth - and the Booker Prize isn't an essential part of that, but it is part of that.