Essence Quotes

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
Irving Babbitt

Democracy, Might, Simply

The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.
Arlen Specter

Democracy, Free, Electorate

We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
Martin Heidegger

Enough, Means, Action

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.
Meryl Streep

Acting, Interested, Curious

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
Logan P. Smith

Past, Behavior, Names

Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Single, Eyes, Before

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Love, Longer, Divine

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Human, Person, Sun

The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.
David Mamet

My Food Network shows, 'Emeril Live' and 'Essence of Emeril,' are not in production right now, but I wouldn't say that I'm necessarily leaving Food Network. I have a lot of television still in me. I enjoy teaching people, so it's just a matter of time before I do something new.
Emeril Lagasse

Time, Food, Live

I think you have to be careful with spices. Kids' palates can be very delicate, and they might not like things overspiced. In my cookbooks for kids, I do a milder version of my signature spice blend, Emeril's Essence, called Baby Bam, which has no cayenne pepper.
Emeril Lagasse

Kids, Might, Baby

If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.
V. S. Naipaul

Live, Country, Another

When I look at 'Napoleon Dynamite''s style I'm reminded of how I spoke when I was an eight-year-old boy. It was just like capturing the essence of, 'Duh!' It was just like the stuff that I would say when I was like eight, nine, ten years old.
Jason Reitman

Old, Stuff, Style

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.
Alan Dershowitz

Science, Legal, Mistakes

When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.
Bob Woodward

Political, Decisions, Makes

A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.
Paul Theroux

Possible, Novel, Captures

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
Stephen Leacock

Christmas, Spirit, Presently

The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
Vidal Sassoon

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.
Paul Simon

Friendship, Change, Work

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.
Huston Smith

Religion, Art, Society

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
Jacob Bronowski

Science, Question, Ask

I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a much harder thing to bottle. If you have both, you're in pretty good shape.
Eric Bana

Love, Good, Someone

The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.
Gary Gygax

Experience, Game, Group

Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism.
Charles Krauthammer

Through, Fairness, Leveling

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
Elia Kazan

Action, Stage, Movement

The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
Walter Bagehot

Work, Real, Energy

It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems.
Maimonides

True, May, Problems

Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.
Mike Myers

American, English, Canada

In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.
Eartha Kitt

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
Glenda Jackson

Learning, Forget, Thought

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