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

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

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.
Jeffrey Sachs

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
Mahatma Gandhi

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
George Orwell

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.
Charles Sanders Peirce

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
Bill Cosby

The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.
Francis Ford Coppola

The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.
Jack Welch

The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.
Franz von Papen

The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.
Anna Garlin Spencer

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.
John Piper

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.
Knute Rockne

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
William James

The essence of good government is trust.
Kathleen Sebelius

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
Benjamin Tucker