Essence Quotes

What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.
Charles S. Dutton

Work, Learned, Impossible

Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.
Lance Secretan

Science, Trying, Short

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
Willard Van Orman Quine

Word, Meaning, Object

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.
Rupert Sanders

Darkness, Fairy, Tales

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.
Lyman Abbott

Reason, Lord, Rest

It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.
Adrian Cronauer

Said, Else, Means

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.
John Larroquette

Good, Character, Acting

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.
Avicenna

Find, Mental, Infants

The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.
Valentina Tereshkova

Life, Change, Same

And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use.
Martin Chemnitz

Between, Difference, Sacrament

The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.
Georg Cantor

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

Give, Different, Action

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.
John Gunther

Find, Tell, Second

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.
Northrop Frye

Both, Possible, Culture

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

Respect, Human, Democracy

The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
John Fischer

Mind, Become, Chance

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.
George Boole

Ideas, Number, Quantity

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

Faith, God, Jesus

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

Order, Divine, Ideology

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.
Antonio Machado

Human, Otherwise

The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.
Friedrich Schleiermacher

Religion, Feeling, Dependence

Love is the essence of life; love touches all of our work. Love never leaves us. It clings to us, and we cling to it.
Emmanuelle Riva

Life, Love, Work

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

Spiritual, Hero, Play

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.
Frank Borman

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
Jane Addams

Exception, Immorality, Tendency

The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you.
Genevieve Bujold

Character, Humanity, Honesty

Listening is the essence of anything.
David Lyons

The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant.
Kim Jong-un

Revolution, Through, Economic

When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put 'organic' on it.
Sam Farr

Small, Put, Wanted

I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away.
Mary Grandpre

Book, Giving, Away

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