Quotes About Essential

Benjamin Franklin put it like this: 'Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.

Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none called The Moon) and is devoted to the inessential.

Writing for me is thinking, and it's also a way to position myself in the world, particularly when I don't like what's going on. It's extremely important to me. ... I knew I always was compelled to do it, but I didn't know how essential it was to me.

His thoughts were stark, skeletal.

There is no toilet paper.

Sven!! Having you near her is natural to Eve... Hell, it's essential! When someone so important just disappears... you don't just feel hurt... you feel like dying.

What contemporary society needs is essentially abstract human relationships, so that even faceless people like me can earn their wages with no interference.

Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

Trying to divine some essential truth about evil is toxic, like inhaling fumes.

Anche nei momenti più tragici, i bisogni elementari della vita reclamavano di essere soddisfatti.

But there is a third ingredient in the foundation of our identity, and it is probably the essential one—it is the reason this delicate discussion is taking place in a book about time: memory.

Whether you deliver or receive the handover report, mindful communication during handovers is essential and can significantly reduce the risk of errors and accidents during your shift and the ones that follow.

In attacking the problem of erosion control, one great handicap lies in the scarcity of people left to do the essential work. On a recent drive to our county seat thirty miles away, we could count only sixteen occupied homes, including those within half a mile on either side of the federal highway.

What you can't afford to lose, you can't afford to buy

For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.

Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth needBut he to wear them.

It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.

Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.

But I don't like working. I do the absolute minimum that is necessary to reach a decision. There are many people who love working. They amass an inordinate amount of information, much more than is necessary to reach a conclusion. And they become attached to certain investments because they know them intimately. I am different. I concentrate on the essentials. When I have to, I work furiously because I am furious that I have to work. When I don't have to, I don't work.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Necessity has no law.

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.

Kiss principle: Keep it simple, stupid.