She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.
Anne Edwards

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
Van Morrison

So what I did on the field was the essence of what I am. Remember me like that.
Steve Carlton

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.
Ludwig von Mises

Sony could have $50 million and a sound stage and A-list actors and never make the same film. The constraints on this film became the essence of this film, became the power of this film.
Joshua Leonard

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.
Jean Arp

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
Vladimir Nabokov

Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.
Wavy Gravy

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

That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.
Avicenna

The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.
Barbara Boxer

The author is aware that the essence of the Christian faith is perfectly independent of his criticism. The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.
David Friedrich Strauss

The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about.
Jonathan Shapiro

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Aristotle

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

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
John Adams

The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
Walter F. Ulmer

The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America.
Mark Steyn

The essence of a man is found in his faults.
Francis Picabia

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.
Maxwell Anderson