Quotes by Essence The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts its finger into anything it does so in the most unfriendly way. Its essence is command and compulsion. Mikhail Bakunin libertyessencesilly The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living. Millicent Fenwick good-livingtasteessence The essence of nostalgia is an awareness that what has been will never be again. Milton S. Eisenhower awarenessnostalgiaessence The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium. Minnie Maddern Fiske actingessencemind When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence. Minor White essenceattentionfirsts A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a legend of itself, turn its beginnings into myth; so I don't want to assert that it was love; but I have no doubt there was a kind of clairvoyance at work: I immediately felt, sensed, grasped the essence of Lucie's being or, to be more precise, the essence of what she was later to become for me; Lucie had revealed herself to me the way religious truth reveals itself. Milan Kundera essencereligioussight What I love in a woman is not what she is in and for herself, but the side of herself she turns towards me, what she is for me. I love her as character in our common love story. what wuld Hamlet be without the castle at Elsinore, without Ophelia, without all the concrete situations he goes through, what would he be without the text of his part? What would be left but an empty, dumb, illusory essence? Milan Kundera dumbessencecharacter Yes, the essence of every love is a child, and it makes no difference at all whether it has ever actually been conceived or born. In the algebra of love a child is the symbol of the magical sum of two beings. Milan Kundera essencelove-ischildren For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought. Milan Kundera flamesbodyessence I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there's some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the essence of drama. Miranda Richardson essencecharacterdrama Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret. Mireille Guiliano choicesessencemeaningful I was blessed with good genetics, but my essence is very happy and warm and I don’t take my job too seriously. I’m not saving lives here. Miranda Kerr essenceblessedjobs The collapse of communism in essence added tens and tens of millions of people to the world labor supply, and the people who were added had previously been getting very low income, but they were not unskilled. Many of them were fairly well educated. Milton Friedman low-incomeessencepeople You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want. Moliere essencewantpeople I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence. Mordecai Richler doctorsproblemessence I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world - to pronounce it -- and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye. Morris Graves eyeessenceworld Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims. Morris Raphael Cohen transcendentalismessencereligion Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience. Mitt Romney mind-freedomessencehands Peace originates with the flow of things - its heart is like the movement of the wind and waves. The Way is like the veins that circulate blood through our bodies, following the natural flow of the life force. If you are separated in the slightest from that divine essence, you are far off the path. Morihei Ueshiba essenceheartwind I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the culture of a place. So my buildings in India or in Kansas City or in Arkansas or in Singapore, they come out different because the places are so different. Moshe Safdie kansas-cityessencethinking«6162636465666768697071»
