Quotes by Essence And then, what is grace? Grace is love. But grace is not love simply, and purely, and alone. Grace and love are, in their innermost essence, one and the same thing. Alexander Whyte and-love essence grace Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy. Alexandra Kollontai third-person fate essence Strip away all the assumptions about what competition is supposed to do, all the claims in its behalf that we accept and repeat reflexively. What you have left is the essence of the concept: mutually exclusive goal attainment (MEGA). One person succeeds only if another does not. From this uncluttered perspective, it seems clear right away that something is drastically wrong with such an arrangement. How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose--and fearing that they will make us lose? Alfie Kohn perspective essence goal Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all. Alfred Brendel ingredients silence essence A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom. Alfred de Vigny despair essence heaven There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate. Algernon Charles Swinburne dumb artist essence Justice is the essence of peace Ali Abunimah essence justice The attempt to be an ideal parent, that is, to behave correctly toward the child, to raise her correctly, not to give to little ortoo much, is in essence an attempt to be the ideal child--well behaved and dutiful--of one's own parents. But as a result of these efforts the needs of the child go unnoticed. I cannot listen to my child with empathy if I am inwardly preoccupied with being a good mother; I cannot be open to what she is telling me. Alice Miller essence mother children I acted before I sang. And I did The Cosby Show, and things like that. But the music kind of came first. And it was a part of my essence. So I knew that I would evolve into this world. Alicia Keys essence world firsts In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game. Alistair Cooke essence games golf Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property were just what Aristotle did not talk about. They are the conditions of happiness; but the essence of happiness, according to Aristotle, is virtue. So the moderns decided to deal with the conditions and to let happiness take care of itself. Allan Bloom liberty care essence If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg warns you dont follow my path to extinction Allen Ginsberg body essence soul There is no author or legislator of the moral law. It is simply valid in itself in the nature or essence of things. We become autonomous only when we obey it, because then our will aligns itself with the objectively valid law, and our choice follows the same law as that we give ourselves. We can think of rational faculty (or the idea - the pure rational concept, not exhibitable in experience) as the legislator or author of the law because reason recognizes an objective standard, and to that extent is already aligned with objective moral truth. Allen W. Wood essence law thinking My intention was to grapple with the metaphysical meaning behind Scheherazade and present that meaning in its essence. Scheherazade is the symbol of the savior. She weaves tales not to save her own life, but to save humanity from its unending retributive response to injury. Alonzo King injury essence humanity The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture Alvar Aalto style development essence Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments. Alvin Ailey dancing essence feelings I've realized that the world is, in essence, full of banana peels - loaded with things that may unwittingly trip an internal wire in my mind, opening a floodgate of fears without warning. Amanda Lindhout wire essence mind Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache. Ambrose Bierce cooking essence food Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides. Amos Bronson Alcott cups pleasure essence At the end of life, at the end of YOUR life, what essence emerges? What have you filled the world with? In remembering you, what words will others choose? Amy Krouse Rosenthal essence remember world «1234567891011»
